Government-Funded Researchers Sought Aborted Minorities for Organ Harvesting

[Franklin Pierce]

Taxpayers shelled out nearly $3 million to build organ 'pipeline' at University of Pittsburgh

The federal government gave at least $2.7 million in taxpayer money to researchers who sought out minority babies who had been aborted in order to harvest their organs, according to internal documents released Tuesday.

The University of Pittsburgh targeted minorities in its request for infant organs—including those taken from full-term babies—to create a "pipeline" for fetal research. Researchers said they needed 50 percent of the donated fetuses to be minorities and specified that 25 percent must come from black women. The Pittsburgh metropolitan area is 85 percent white and 8 percent black. Researchers stressed the importance of maintaining organ blood flow in the request, which watchdogs say could violate federal law by asking doctors to illegally preserve organs during labor-inducing abortions.

The National Institutes of Health has overseen experiments on fetal organs at the University of Pittsburgh since 2015 in what the school claimed to be a "tissue hub." Aborted babies used in this research ranged from 6 to 42 weeks of gestation, according to government documents. The grant request from the university to the government agency redacts key information, including how many fetuses were obtained and who provided them. Its language, however, raised troubling questions.

Government-Funded Researchers Sought Aborted Minorities for Organ Harvesting - Washington Free Beacon

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Nothing to see here... move along.

 

[Electric Orange]

Government-Funded Researchers Linked to Dr. Fauci and NIH Sought Aborted Minorities for Organ Harvesting

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Government-Funded Researchers Linked to Dr. Fauci and NIH Sought Aborted Minorities for Organ Harvesting
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The University of Pittsburgh targeted minorities in its request for infant organs—including those taken from full-term babies—to create a “pipeline” for fetal research. Researchers said they needed 50 percent of the donated fetuses to be minorities and specified that 25 percent must come from black women. The Pittsburgh metropolitan area is 85 percent white and 8 percent black. Researchers stressed the importance of maintaining organ blood flow in the request, which watchdogs say could violate federal law by asking doctors to illegally preserve organs during labor-inducing abortions.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

US Senate candidate, PA lawmaker call for Investigation after reports on Pitt Fetal Tissue research

The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is facing fresh calls for an investigation on its federally funded research on fetal tissue, after information surfaced that many say is troubling.

Republican state Rep. Kathy Rapp, who chairs the majority for the legislature's Health Committee, sent a letter Thursday requesting Pennsylvania's auditor general review Pitt's state and federal funding. Pennsylvania Republican Sean Parnell, who is running for U.S. Senate, also called for an investigation.

"If these allegations are true that scientists at the University of Pittsburgh were harvesting kidneys of unborn babies while their hearts were still beating, they should not only have their taxpayer funding immediately suspended, everyone involved should face criminal charges," he tweeted Thursday.

US Senate candidate, PA lawmaker call for investigation after reports on Pitt fetal tissue research

 

[KB5252]

This make anyone else extremely uncomfortable? I just don't see how this could be considered ethical.

 

[Orangeburst]

Heard this on radio today..Disgusting does not even approach, just evil

And 42 weeks..what the heck.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

This make anyone else extremely uncomfortable? I just don't see how this could be considered ethical.

And we still wonder why black people are so vaccine hesitant...

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Heard this on radio today..Disgusting does not even approach, just evil

And 42 weeks..what the heck.

Gotta be a typo. I can't imagine someone having a child a month past term and deciding to kill it.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Doctors say Pitt statements point to possibility Organs Extracted From Live Fetuses; school denies charge

Statements from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) indicate one of its federally funded research projects utilized organs that might have been extracted from live fetuses, several scholars and doctors have said.

The issue emerged earlier this week when Judicial Watch (JW) released documents in which Pitt told the National Institutes of Health (NIH) it sought to "develop a pipeline to the acquisition, quality control and distribution of human genitourinary [urinary and genital organs and functions] samples obtained throughout development (6-42 weeks gestation)." According to NIH, 40 weeks is considered full term while after 42 weeks is considered "post-term" or "overdue."

Pitt referenced a long list of organs, "includ[ing] liver, heart, gonads, legs, brain, genitourinary tissues including kidneys, ureters and bladders." The last three were a focus for the research project, known as GUDMAP, for which Pitt was seeking funding.

Fetal tissue research has been a controversial subject for Pitt as it recently attracted scrutiny over an experiment that involved grafting fetal scalps onto rodents. But the issue stretches beyond the university as fetal tissue is extracted through abortion techniques that have raised anti-abortion activists' concerns about live births and potential violations of tissue-trafficking law.

One part, among others, from the released documents sounded alarm bells for Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden. In positioning itself as a potential "hub" for fetal tissue, Pitt told NIH it could minimize "ischemia time … to ensure the highest quality biological specimens."

Doctors say Pitt statements point to possibility organs extracted from live fetuses; school denies charge