Stop Buying Aborted Baby Body Parts for Research, 85 Congressmembers Tell FDA
Eighty-five members of Congress are demanding an end to the federal government's contract with a company that supplies tissue from aborted babies for research purposes in mice.
In a Monday letter to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote of their alarm that the government had awarded Advanced Bioscience Resources a $15,900 contract to provide fresh human fetal tissue to be used in mice to construct human-like immune systems in them.
"ABR has a checkered history of purchasing the remains of aborted children and reselling the babies. I know this first-hand as I participated in the House's investigation and criminal referral of this company two years ago," commented Rep. Vicki Hartzler, R-Missouri, in a press release....