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The body parts of babies aborted in their mothers' wombs are reportedly being used to "humanize" mice for medical research. The following is not an account of a science fiction horror movie. Correspondence from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding its taxpayer-supported purchase of body parts from aborted babies. According to a news release from Judicial Watch, the FDA, in a contract based on a 2012 requisitioning, sought the parts to “humanize” laboratory mice for more realistic disease testing. Judicial Watch announced the macabre procedures as it secured 198 pages primarily of correspondence between Dr. Kristina Howard, FDA veterinary...

Hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars went to recipients in China and Russia in recent years without being properly tracked by the federal government, including a grant that enabled a state-run Russian lab to test cats on treadmills, according to Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). Ernst and her staff investigators, working with auditors at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Congressional Research Service, as well as two nonprofit Washington watchdogs—Open The Books (OTB) and the White Coat Waste Project (WCWP)—discovered dozens of other grants that weren’t counted on the federal government’s USASpending.gov internet database.While the total value of the...