{"id":85397,"date":"2016-01-17T08:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T13:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=85397"},"modified":"2024-10-29T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T21:03:17","slug":"late-term-abortionist-harvests-baby-body-parts-within-minutes-for-university-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/late-term-abortionist-harvests-baby-body-parts-within-minutes-for-university-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Late-term abortionist harvests baby body parts ‘within minutes’ of abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The University of New Mexico and late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd (pictured above) are facing questions of whether Boyd broke the law in obtaining liver and kidney tissue for research.\u00a0 New Mexico Alliance for Life (NMAFL) reports it “has obtained details from a 2015\u00a0University of New Mexico research study<\/a>\u00a0describing how\u00a0aborted\u00a0baby liver and kidney tissue [was]\u00a0harvested from ‘six fetuses,’ only 15 minutes after the abortion procedure.”<\/p>\n

Now NMAFL is calling for state leaders to investigate and for UNM to terminate contracts with Boyd and his late-term abortion facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Elisa Martinez, executive director of New Mexico Alliance for Life said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This leaves many alarming questions concerning how notorious late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd, still serves as a UNM\u00a0 “assistant professor,” abortionist and tissue collection facilitator. The total disregard for human life illustrated in this\u00a0 UNM\u00a0Department of Pediatrics research study by Dr. Robin\u00a0Ohls\u00a0and team is both sickening and horrifying. Death row inmates are treated with greater respect and dignity than these innocent, unborn babies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

UNM’s health sciences center (UNMHSC) and Boyd’s late-term abortion facility\u00a0have been working together for the past ten years, \u00a0according to the\u00a0Albuquerque Journal<\/a>. UNM’s health science center (UNMHSC) uses fetal tissue from abortions for their research. Until December the abortion facility\u00a0also trained UNM School of Medicine students on abortion. While the training relationship ended suddenly in December, the Albuquerque Journal reports<\/a> that the fetal tissue acquisition continues:<\/p>\n

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UNMH officials also said there was no plan to stop accepting fetal tissue from Boyd\u2019s clinic \u2013 despite an internal policy that appears to call the practice into question. The policy does not prohibit the practice, they say, but conceded that its wording could be misunderstood by a \u201clay\u201d person.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And therein lies the problem NMAFL is calling into question. NMAFL says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This study brings into serious question as to whether UNM’s\u00a0Curtis Boyd is changing abortion procedures\u00a0for\u00a0UNM to harvest baby livers and kidneys from “six fetuses” in this study. How is it possible for Boyd to provide six, intact “fetuses ranging 12 -22 weeks” for\u00a0UNM’s\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Ohls\u00a0to harvest?\u00a0 Is Boyd performing\u00a0illegal partial birth abortions in order to provide Dr.\u00a0Ohls\u00a0intact bodies to harvest? The procedure Boyd states he uses up to 20 weeks, involves dismemberment and removal of tissue from the uterus.\u00a0 So how is it possible for him to provide “six fetuses” if their bodies have been dismembered and mangled from the\u00a0abortion procedure?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NMAFL notes that, “Federal law states<\/a>\u00a0that an abortionist is not allowed to change the procedure to collect tissue: ‘No alteration of the timing, method, or procedures used to terminate the pregnancy was made solely for the purposes of obtaining the tissue.’\u00a0 Federal HHS regulations<\/a>\u00a0state: ‘The timing and method of abortion should not be influenced by the potential uses of fetal tissue for transplantation or medical research.’<\/p>\n

And NMAFL also points out that “UNMHSC\u00a0officals\u00a0told the\u00a0Albuquerque Journal<\/a>\u00a0they have ‘no documents to show how much fetal tissue is sent from Boyd’s clinic to\u00a0UNM\u00a0researchers, nor how\u00a0often.” However, in the study on which NMAFL is reporting, the researchers clearly stays that they had “exactly ‘six fetuses’ in\u00a0UNM’s\u00a0possession to use for the study.”<\/p>\n

Bioethicist and stem cell researcher, Dr. David Prentice<\/a>, the NMAFL reports says<\/a>, has testified as an expert before British\u00a0Parliament, European Parliament, Canadian Parliament and U.S. Congress\u00a0 and reviewed the UNM study, saying:<\/p>\n

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This is very basic science, an elementary fishing expedition to look at simple molecular changes and regulation of one particular gene. There is no near-term nor even long-term target for therapeutic application. The experimental design was simplistic and poorly controlled, such that the authors could only “speculate” regarding the implication of the results.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But the partnership between UNMHSC and Boyd’s clinic continues, providing fetal parts to be minced, as the study itself says, for research. The Albuquerque Journal<\/a> shows some of the agreements and correspondence between Boyd and the medical school:<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Boyd has been under fire for for his late-term abortions in Texas and New Mexico many times. He’s admitted to performing abortions on girls as young as nine and 10.<\/p>\n