Posted on 10/04/2021 10:56:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
A publicly funded university is using federal grants to engage in grotesque experiments using aborted babies, yet those in positions to act have thus far been silent.
Nearly 100 members of Congress asked the Biden administration for details on the University of Pittsburgh’s federally funded research on aborted babies in a recent letter. Pitt officials should be working with law enforcement to conduct a full investigation of the grotesque, immoral, and potentially illegal actions the university has taken in its treatment of preborn human beings. Pitt should provide complete transparency regarding how the university obtains and experiments on these aborted babies.
Even Dr. Ronna Jurow, an ob-gyn who supports abortion, has raised significant concern over unethical treatment of aborted babies at Pitt. As an alumnus of Pitt, it troubles me to see my alma mater become a national hub for training students for controversial fetal experimentation, allegedly using staff employed by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business.
Just last year, it was revealed that Pitt has been engaging in experiments like scalping aborted babies and grafting their scalps to lab rats. Pitt researchers even proudly published pictures of babies’ scalps grafted onto the backs of rodents.
Some of these inhumane experiments at Pitt are being federally funded through grants from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, run by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request made by the Center for Medical Progress, we see in Pitt’s application for federal funding (i.e., your tax dollars) that Pitt is obtaining babies who have been killed and harvested through elective abortions. Harvesting organs and performing experiments on innocent human beings whose death was elective — aborted for convenience and without medical necessity — is wrong.
If that’s not alarming enough, Pitt has set racial quotas on their tissue orders. In their application, Pitt indicates their desire for half of the babies being experimented on to be minorities. Allegheny County, the major metropolitan area from which Pitt-based abortion experiments draw patients for fetal tissue procurement, is 80 percent white and only 13 percent black. David Seldin, assistant vice chancellor for news at the University of Pittsburgh, claims this is explained by the experiments aiming to study kidney disease, which more greatly impacts people who aren’t white.
There is evidence that labor is being induced and babies delivered in a such a manner that the babies can still be alive when organ harvesting occurs. In Pitt’s application for federal funding, it asks for $3 million to significantly “ramp up” its fetal tissue collections.
In explaining why Pitt would be the best “distribution hub” for supplying large numbers of aborted fetal body parts to researchers, Pitt chillingly wrote that “We record the warm ischemic time on our samples and take steps to keep it at a minimum to ensure the highest quality biological specimens. We get feedback from our users and utilize this feedback to tailor our collection processes on a case-by-case basis to maximize the needs of investigators.”
Later in the application, Pitt describes “labor induction” as a “procedure that will be used to obtain the tissue.” Seldin made a prepared statement on how the tissue is obtained, saying that ischemia time “refers to the time after the tissue collection procedure and before cooling for storage and transport.”
It’s of grave concern if the blood flow is reduced or cut off to access organs and tissue after those organs and tissue are being procured. “If it says ischemia time starts after tissue collection, that means that the baby is still alive at the time that they’re harvesting the tissue,” said Dr. Christina Francis in a recent interview with Fox News.
It’s bad enough that a publicly funded university is engaging in such grotesque experiments using aborted babies. But now we’re talking about the alleged use of aborted babies that were alive while their kidneys, livers, or hearts were cut out of their body.
Pitt’s own words should spark a full investigation, yet despite this evidence, those in the positions to act have thus far been silent. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala has done nothing. U.S. Attorney Stephen Kaufman declined to comment. Attorney General Josh Shapiro, an extremely pro-abortion politician with Planned Parenthood among his campaign donors, has given no response, except to tweet out his support for abortion-on-demand.
When the state government asked Pitt to testify in a May hearing on fetal experimentation, the university sent an employee who was just hired this year and who worked in an unrelated department, thus avoiding answers to fundamental questions about the experimentation process.
Subsequent statements from Pitt attempt to distance the university from its connection to abortion, with spokespersons like Seldin saying it does not perform abortion procedures and that Pitt is “not part of the tissue collection process.” But it’s hard to make this claim when the Pitt Biospecimen Core, the tissue bank that serves as the link between the mothers who consent to have their aborted child experimented on and the university obtaining the fetal tissue for experiments, is funded and operated in part by Pitt’s School of Medicine.
This should give all the more reason why Pitt, the tissue bank they use, and every other entity involved in obtaining and processing aborted babies for experiments at Pitt, including UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, need to be investigated. (To note, Magee performs on average 500 abortions annually, according to recent records with the Pennsylvania Department of Health.)
Feeling the growing pressure for a full investigation, Pitt recently announced the hiring of an outside firm to conduct an “independent review,” but the firm has ties to the university. Hyman, Phelps, and McNamara is based in Washington, D.C., and one counsel for the law firm, Michael Heesters, is an alumnus of Pitt.
How impartial and thorough this investigation will be is anyone’s guess, but one concern is the findings will be reported to the Board of Trustees. What will be shared with Pitt alumni? What about with taxpayers? Many questions remain unanswered.
Part of the stated mission of the University of Pittsburgh is to cooperate with governmental institutions to transfer knowledge. Pitt must voluntarily cooperate now with these same institutions and stop experiments on electively aborted human beings, and it shouldn’t take legislative action to make it happen.
what about the NAZI experiments of
Pfizer, and Moderna, and the CDC, and the FDA.
not one has been Truthful
not one has received INFORMED CONSENT.
not one told the Truth.
WAKE UP or DIE.
I imagine it’s unrelated, but IIRC there was a “brilliant virus researcher” at Pitt who had made a “big discovery” about COVID very early on. And was suddenly murdered right after.
They probaly murdered him because he had discobered something huge, which they did not want to be discovered.
Fauci again...
This guy has no ethical or moral standards > IMO.
University of Pittsburgh “Researchers” make Mengele look like an amateur.
Please, someone explain to me the meaning of: “unethical treatment of aborted babies”. You mean there is something known as “ethical treatment of aborted babies”?
Lord, remember the time you used the fire and brimstone? Yeah, Sodom and Gomorrah. Do you think it’s time to use it again? Like, Now!
May the judgement of God be swift and terrible.
Everyone assumes they are dead…
What is chilling to me beyond the obvious, is that Pitt was
acting as a hub. So it’s not just about Pitt, it’s that a
number of other entities were receiving these ‘parts’ for
experimental studies.
There is a sector of our education centers and possibly other
entities that are receiving these parts and toying with them.
When I heard Planned Parenthood was selling fetus body parts,
it honestly struck me as a ‘crime against humanity’ topic.
I honestly thought there might be some pretty serious
charges filed. Nope...
I wonder how many women who have had abortions, knew
that their fetus would be abused in this manner.
It really wreaks of NAZI concentration camp type
activity to me.
“I wonder how many women who had abortions, knew their fetus would be used in this manner”
Do you think a mother who gave her okay to kill her baby would care what happens to it, after it’s dead?
Also, the University of MN was caught purchasing aborted baby parts. A very small news paper article and nothing more said or done.
Yeah, I do think they would mind. Not all of them of
course. Some people are beyond help.
They do choose to kill the kid. In their minds they have
convinced themselves the kid isn’t aware or a full human
being yet.
If they were presented with the fact their kid was born
alive, and then experimented on alive, it would confront
them with an ugly truth they couldn’t deny.
It’s not just the dregs off skid-row, or some such.
Some of these people are pretty well placed in life.
I can imagine some of them would be absolutely furious.
You are right. I tend to keep my mind closed when it comes to abortion.
I may have done the same, if I was in their position. I bet many are horrified once they realize what they had done.
On Saturday I help put out 5,000 pink/blue little flags to represent aborted babies. If each flag I placed was a prayer for 10,000 aborted babies, I didn’t get near the total number since 1973.
Thanks for putting out the little flags. Nice...
I’m not happy about abortion, and my goal is to see fewer
and fewer of them as time goes by.
Back in the 60s-80s, I think views that Abortion was a
non-event, prevailed.
These days I think it’s viewed a lot less favorably than
it was.
Simple questions have made it pretty hard to ignore.
Would you approve of kicking a dog until it lost its
puppies? Then why is it okay to kill human fetuses?
Why do you defend animals so viciously, but then don’t
give a damn about fetuses torn limb from limb during
abortion?
Are you aware of what these fetuses look like after
a few months? Are you comfortable with them being
dismembered?
And now we can add...
Are you comfortable with these aborted children being
born alive and having their organs removed without
pain killers?
It’s not so easy to dismiss these simple things.
How can we escape the wrath of God?
If these people do not repent, they will have an extremely unpleasant encounter with Almighty God on the day of judgment.
Sin angers Him on general principle, but this sin is especially hateful to Him and is expressly singled out for an exceptionally severe judgment.
Prov. 6; Matt. 18:6; Luke 17:2
The wages of sin are death.
I agree that this offends ME more than other sins, but in
the end all sinners wind up with the same fate.
Some sinners won’t wind up more dead that others.
It certainly puts the small sins in perspective.
Sin is sin.
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As an example, we all saw alarming practices during the 2020 election that should have caused the citizens to rise up and demand an accounting of their votes and the power of their voices to govern themselves. Instead, the state and local officials have aggressively suppressed all election reviews and audits with an official proclamation that all is well -- IOW, the people are accepting the rulings of those corrupting the electoral process... representative govt is severely diminished.
We see the same dynamic with various school boards all around the country; elected officials attempting to suppress parental input as they aggressively impose an agenda that neither educates nor teaches the ability to think. By the time the educational process reaches the college level it has become an autocratic dictatorship. Yet people continue to finance all this and admit their children to a mediocre behavioral training abomination that is undermining the whole society that supports all that.
Pennsylvania and the Pacific coastal states are representative of the final results of public submission to mediocrity and official incompetence. Even the 9th Circuit federal appeals court has made rulings essentially telling citizens that they have no right to demand input into the way they are governed... and there it rests. Citizens settle comfortably into a sheep's pen.
It’s just a blob of tissue that a woman has the RIGHT to remove from her body.
(Just don't drop any near me.)
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