A congressional hearing on animal cruelty revealed disturbing details about the experiments that researchers are using fetal body parts for: research involving implantation into animals. Ninety percent (90%) of the experiments were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — a financial relationship previously exposed by Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (Colo.) questioned Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President at the White Coat Waste Project, about animal experimentation through taxpayer funding. Goodman said Dr. Anthony Fauci, formerly the director of NIAID, knew that the body parts of preborn children were being implanted into animals.
“I’m seeing here with NIAID the budget of spending $6.5 billion in taxpayer money. It’s been used to pay EcoHealth Alliance to import hundreds of Asian bats into the U.S. for new viruses in labs in Colorado run by the Wuhan-linked researchers. That’s $6.7 billion for the Colorado State University in Fort Collins to research bats here in America. We’ve also sent billions of taxpayer dollars to unaccountable labs in China and other foreign countries to implant aborted baby parts into lab animals,” Boebert said, and then asked, “Have you heard of that sort of research?”
Goodman answered, “We did an analysis a few years ago showing that over 90% of experiments using human fetal tissue (…) involved animals were funded by Fauci’s NIAID,” and as to where the abortions were taking place, he added, “A lot of it is happening at colleges and universities that have affiliated hospitals that perform that procedure.”
In recent years, there have been numerous bombshells about the use of aborted babies’ body parts in horrifying animal experiments including at The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), which worked with Planned Parenthood to obtain the fetal body parts of aborted babies. In 2015, Daleiden released videos of his undercover investigation into Planned Parenthood’s partnerships involving the alleged illegal sales of fetal body parts for scientific experiments, and in 2021, he testified before the Pennsylvania House Health Committee and exposed the relationship between Planned Parenthood and Pitt, as well as the experiments, in a video. The pro-life organization called Pitt a “hub for some of the most barbaric experiments carried out on late-term aborted human infants… funded by the United States Government.”
“Publicly available information demonstrates that Pitt hosts some of the most barbaric experiments carried out on aborted human infants, including scalping 5-month-old aborted fetuses to stitch onto lab rats, exporting fetal kidneys across the country, and killing infants delivered alive for liver harvesting – funded by U.S. taxpayers via the National Institutes of Health, and in particular Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIAID office,” CMP wrote in a press release nearly four years ago.
These babies, often old enough to survive outside of the womb, would have their scalps and skin removed and then sewn onto the backs of mice and rats. As the Nature study explained:
Human skin protects an individual from infection, but there is no way to study the effects of pathogens on individuals without subjecting them to disease. So, the group used aborted children for that purpose. They made ‘human Skin and Immune System (hSIS)-humanized’ mouse and rat models to study the immune system when the skin is infected with a staph infection.
… ‘(F)ull-thickness human skin’ was taken from the scalps (skin with hair) and backs (skin without hair) of children aborted at the gestational age of 18 to 20 weeks of pregnancy. The abortions were done at the Magee-Women’s Hospital and specimens were stored at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Tissue Bank.” In a devastatingly ironic twist, the research report was careful to note under its ‘Ethical Approval’ heading, “All animal studies/experimental protocols were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at the University of Pittsburgh and were conducted following approved guidelines, which adheres to the NIH guidelines for housing and care of laboratory animals.
Spleens, lymphatic tissue, and other immune system cells were also taken to see how the organs would respond to the staff infections. Images from the research show human hair growing from the mice.
Photo via the study in Nature
Complaints were also filed against Stanford University for not disclosing taxpayer funding of animal experimentation, which included using the fingers of aborted babies, and other fetal tissue, to regenerate human cartilage in mice.
The fingers and tissue had been obtained by StemExpress, the notorious tissue procurement company that made headlines for its partnership with Planned Parenthood in the fetal body part trafficking scandal of 2015. It’s not clear what kind of human-animal experimentation is still taking place, but Boebert requested that the issue be investigated by Congress.
Editor’s Note 2/11/25: This article was updated with further information.
