{"id":252773,"date":"2021-09-09T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=252773"},"modified":"2021-09-07T21:41:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T02:41:09","slug":"insider-pitt-dehumanizing-experimenting-aborted-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/insider-pitt-dehumanizing-experimenting-aborted-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former insider: U Pitt should face consequences for experimenting on aborted babies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As pro-choice groups have a collective heart attack over the Supreme Court denying<\/a> a request to freeze a Texas state law that bars abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, they haven\u2019t batted an eye at heartbreaking revelations that aborted babies may have been kept alive within Pennsylvania\u2019s major fetal tissue distribution hub, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.<\/p>\n

UPMC is a nonprofit health system that has the distinction of being the largest<\/a> non-governmental employer in Pennsylvania. While the medical center boasts<\/a> that they build a \u201cculture of compassionate health care\u201d on their website, they neglect to mention their role as one of the largest abortion providers in the state, performing<\/a> over 500 operations each year. Sadly, the dehumanization process doesn\u2019t stop on the operating table, as UPMC also houses the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s GUDMAP<\/a> project that stores and distributes fetal organs for experimentation in Pennsylvania and beyond.<\/p>\n

I resigned from the medical center in April after reading about one particular taxpayer-funded study<\/a> published last September in which the scalps of second-term babies aborted at a UPMC hospital between 18 to 20 weeks were attached to mice and rats by Pitt researchers. Even though the rodent experiment is disturbing on its own merits, there have been additional areas of ethical malfeasance.<\/p>\n

A few weeks prior to my last day on the job, I submitted a conflict of interest report to UPMC\u2019s Compliance Helpline regarding Professor Beatrice Chen, who oversees abortions at Magee-Womens Hospital while also serving on the University of Pittsburgh’s Institutional Review Board that approves fetal experimentation projects. Dr. Chen\u2019s position<\/a> as Magee\u2019s director of family planning combined with her role<\/a> as a vice chair on the IRB contradicts recent claims by Pitt\u2019s Assistant Vice Chancellor for Communications, David Seldin. The former<\/a> NARAL communications director has insisted<\/a> in interviews that the university has no part in medical procedures or tissue collection involving aborted fetuses.<\/p>\n