The Trump administration has launched a review of state-funded research that uses fetal tissue, prompting many to speculate the start of a fresh battle on abortion rights in the US.

The Health and Human Service (HHS) department announced on Tuesday that it was cancelling a contract for Advanced Bioscience Resources to supply the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with fetal tissue for research purposes. This was followed by a statement from the HHS confirming a full audit on the use of such …