A federal probe may reveal violations of law in the University of Pittsburgh’s testing of body parts from aborted babies, according to a pro-life organization monitoring the school’s program.
The U.S. government began investigating the University of Pittsburgh’s protocols in its program to harvest fetal organs, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal.
Pitt came under fire in August 2021 for potentially violating federal law by altering abortion procedures to harvest organs from babies old enough to survive outside the womb.
Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania provides university researchers with the aborted bodies of unborn babies, according to the pro-life Center for Medical Progress, which sought the documents.
The Office of Inspector General in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services subpoenaed the University of…
