Thu Mar 10, 2022 – 4:57 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) refused to answer questions posed by almost 100 congressmen in September regarding fetal tissue research at the University of Pittsburgh.
A letter to Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, the chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, from NIH acting principal deputy director Tara Schwetz stated that the Office of Extramural Research (OER) has “been in discussions with [the university] to determine the veracity of these allegations.”
“[The university] commissioned an independent, third-party firm to review and assess the fetal tissue research processes and practices,” Schwetz said. “This assessment reviewed all of [the university]’s activities related to procurement, disbursement, and use of fetal tissue to determine if they were fully compliant with all applicable laws.”
The response from the NIH refers to an investigation conducted by Washington, D.C. law firm Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. (HPM) on behalf of the university. The investigation found that experiments, including grafting aborted babies’ scalps to rodents and harvesting livers from babies that had been aborted alive, were “in compliance with federal and state laws.”
Daines, speaking to The Federalist, said, “Rather than conducting
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