April 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Legal watchdog group Judicial Watch has released new revelations about the U.S. government’s involvement in purchasing the bodies and body parts of aborted babies for research.
Nearly 600 pages of documents published by Judicial Watch earlier this month detail the efforts of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to buy aborted babies’ bodies in order to test experimental drugs and create “humanized” mice.
Government officials often sought babies killed as late as 24 weeks gestation, by which time many unborn children are viable outside of the womb. The contract between the government and a fetal parts company investigated by Judicial Watch was terminated by Trump administration in 2018.
Emails obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request depict federal researchers and ABR employees haggling over “fresh,” dismembered babies.
In 2012, an FDA official told ABR that the government was willing to spend $12,000 of taxpayer dollars up front for “tissue purchases,” <span
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