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(Greg Piper) The National Institutes of Health approved a $3.2 million grant to the
University of Pittsburgh that involved inducing labor on full-term pregnant women
and quickly removing organs from intact fetuses for its tissue bank, according to
newly released public records.
The National Institutes of Health approved a $3.2 million grant to the University of
Pittsburgh that involved inducing labor on full-term pregnant women and quickly
removing organs from intact fetuses for its tissue bank, according to newly
released public records.
The 2015 grant application also promised about half the fetuses whose organs
were removed would be nonwhite, including a quarter black.
Judicial Watch sued NIH on behalf of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP)
following "inexplicable delays" by the agency in responding to the pro-life group's
Freedom of Information Act request for the grant applications for Pitt's proposed
"tissue hub and collection site," CMP said Tuesday.
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The two groups posted hundreds of pages, some fully redacted, they received
from NIH, with several posted individually to highlight specific portions of the
program.
CMP's posted records are about 70 pages longer than Judicial Watch's because
the former includes "some non-Pittsburgh documents in the NIH production itself,"
an unnamed CMP spokesperson wrote in an email.
While often written in medical jargon, the records make clear that Pitt promised
NIH it could obtain "very high quality tissue and biological specimens" from at
least five fetuses a week, ages 6 to 42 weeks. It was in the process of altering its
Institutional Review Board and autopsy consent forms to permit collection of
aborted fetuses older than 24 weeks.
The university was seeking to become the hub and distribution site for the human
spinoff of the GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP),
which had successfully mapped mice.
When it filed the application, Pitt had "disbursed over 300 fresh samples collected
from 77 cases," but it could have accrued material from "as many as 725 cases
last year," showing the collections "can be significantly ramped up."
Pitt already has 18 years of experience with its Health Science Tissue Bank
(HSTB), according to the proposal. Its researchers have been collecting fetal
tissue for more than a decade, currently focused on 6-24 weeks, and the
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collections include "liver, heart, gonads, legs, brain, genitourinary, and placenta."
A redacted portion says an unnamed entity has been using HSTB to get kidneys,
ureters and bladders.
The recruitment proposal says patients sign a consent form for "the procedure that
will be used to obtain the tissue," including dilation and curettage, dilation and
evacuation, and "labor induction." The attending physician has sole discretion for
determining which procedure to use.
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"Warm ischemic time differs from cold ischemic time which refers to [the] amount
of time the organ is chilled," Judicial Watch said. "Pitt's statement suggests the
time between the abortion and collection is minimal."
The litigation group said the documents show NIH has paid at least $2.7 million to
Pitt thus far, but it didn't post the individual page on which that figure appears.
Spokesperson Jill Farrell said she would ask a researcher for that page. (The
document dumps are not text-searchable, but the individually posted pages are.)
CMP founder David Daleiden, the journalist at the center of the 2015 Planned
Parenthood fetal body part scandal, said the grant application "reads like an
episode of American Horror Story."
Viable infants, he claimed, are intentionally delivered and "killed for organ
harvesting" to bring taxpayer money to Pitt "and the Planned Parenthood abortion
business it supports." He also called the program racist because of the
overrepresentation of black women in the program relative to Allegheny County,
"from which Pitt-based abortion practices draw patients."
Daleiden called on law enforcement and public officials to "bring the next Kermit
Gosnell to justice under the law," referring to the Philadelphia abortionist convicted
of first-degree murder for killing infants born alive in his "house of horrors."
The documents show NIH gave money to Pitt to become "a one-stop human fetal
tissue shop," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
NIH and Pitt did not respond to Just the News queries for their reactions to the
document dump and negative portrayal of Pitt's program by CMP and Judicial
Watch.
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