The Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $3 million grant to the University of Pittsburgh’s mission to become the nation’s aborted fetal “Tissue Hub,” according to a press release.
The University of Pittsburgh solicited tissue from babies who were aborted as early as 6 weeks or as late as 42 weeks gestation.
Through a FOIA lawsuit, Judicial Watch and the Center for Medical Progress obtained the emails that reveal the federal government’s financial support for fetus-trafficking.
“These documents show taxpayer money is being used to turn the University of Pittsburgh is a one-stop human fetal tissue shop—from procuring the tissue from elective abortions, ‘subdividing’ the human remains, to distributing and shipping the harvested tissue,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
Pittsburgh University in 2015 applied for the $3 million National Institutes of Health grant to become the nation’s fetal tissue hub for the GenitoUrinary Developmental Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP).
In the application, the university promised the NIH that its fetal tissue collection program “can be significantly ramped up,” so that GUDMAP researchers can access kidneys, bladders, and other organs from murdered babies.
To become the nation’s “distribution hub,” Pittsburgh University touted “over 18 years of experience” in collecting organs and tissue from aborted babies.
The application promised that with the university’s procedures, “Ischemia time is minimized”—meaning that the organs do not sit for long periods at body temperature without blood flow.
“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,” the university advertised in its application. “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.”
Pittsburgh University offered “labor induction”—causing women to birth their children—as a “procedure that will be used to obtain the tissue.”
That is, the university will induce childbirth and then harvest the infant’s fresh organs afterward.
“If the fetus’ heartbeat and blood circulation continue in a labor induction abortion for harvesting organs, it means the fetus is being delivered while still alive and the cause of death is the removal of the organs,” the Center for Medical Progress described.
While black babies constitute an estimated 36% of abortion victims, they need not worry about being over-represented due to the imposition of socially-conscious quotas.
Among the university’s rigorous diversity and inclusion standards was “inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals on the basis of sex/gender, race, and ethnicity.”
The grant application promised organs from 50% white babies and 50% non-white babies, including 25% from black babies.
Even so, the number was nearly double the proportion relative to blacks’ overall demographic share of the population.
Pittsburgh University’s patients mostly come Allegheny County, where blacks constitute about 13% of the population.
“The NIH grant application for just one of Pitt’s numerous experiments with aborted infants reads like an episode of American Horror Story,” said David Daleiden, founder and president of the Center for Medical Progress.
“Infants in the womb, some old enough to be viable, are being aborted alive and killed for organ harvesting, in order to bring in millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for Pitt and the Planned Parenthood abortion business it supports,” he said.
