NM legislators seek to end use of fetal tissue

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | November 23, 2016 | Chris Quintana

[CedarDave]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group of 25 New Mexico Republican lawmakers is calling on the University of New Mexico to halt research involving fetal body parts that have come from abortions.

The group also requested in a letter to the board of regents that UNM suspend the transfer of fetal body parts to or from the university until administrators can prove they’re not violating the law that bans profiting from the sale of such material.

The lawmakers also expressed concern that UNM may have improperly entered an agreement with Southwestern Women’s Options, one of a few clinics nationwide that provide late-term abortions. At one point, UNM medical students were doing rotations at that clinic, and the clinic’s director, Dr. Curtis Boyd, was a volunteer faculty member.

“I hope that we can work together to restore proper oversight,” the letter read. “No one wants to see the reputation of our flagship university unnecessarily damaged over the actions of a few unaccountable faculty members.”

UNM Health Sciences Center officials didn’t say whether they would comply with the requests but insisted the university had not violated any laws.

The letter from New Mexico lawmakers is connected to a months-long investigation by a U.S. House of Representatives select investigative panel into UNM’s handling of fetal tissue and body parts from aborted fetuses.

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in a statement in June that UNM violated state law in receiving fetal tissue from Southwestern Women’s Options to use for research.

[CedarDave]

With both house of the NM legislature in liberal Democratic hands come January and its new leaders leftist "liberals", their is very likely no chance of any action being taken to stop the slaughter.

[CedarDave]

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[madprof98]

Perhaps New Mexico would like to join California on the road to secession.

[CedarDave]

Like California, its the idiots in the large cities (ABQ, SF and Las Cruces) driving this wagon. The rest of the state is a lot more conservative.

[vette6387]

“Perhaps New Mexico would like to join California on the road to secession.”

That’s a simply stupid statement! We should be trying to figure out a way to unify this country after 8 years of quasi-communism, but folks like you have to toss out nonsensical, unhelpful $HIT like this. You should be ashamed of yourself!

[madprof98]

Sorry, not ashamed at all. The country is not going to unify. The other side has no interest in it. None.

[CedarDave]

No doubt a sarcastic remark by madprof, but neither real is coming together in California. It is so overrun by big-government, high-tax liberals and now aliens, legal or otherwise, that I see absolutely no way any unification will occur. So I agree secession, which never happen either, is something to poke fun at.