He was also never informed that such humanexperimentation was only supposed to be conducted in a manner that would potentially and directly benefit the study subjects.
The egregious Tuskegee experiments were influential in prompting Congress to pass the National Research Act of 1974 creating a commission to develop principles for protection of human subjects in scientific experimentation.
Last year, Bush responded to a questionnaire from the U.S. Catholic Conference with this question: What is your position on using federal funds for research that involves the destruction of live human embryos to obtain their cells for experimentation (embryonic stem cell research)?