A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release additional information about its purchases of organs harvested from aborted human fetuses, according to a statement issued by Judicial Watch on Monday. Two agencies under the HHS, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), both purchased organs from California-based Advanced Biosciences Resources (ABR) to use in HIV research. ABR partners with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to dismember fetuses and sell their parts for research. Judicial Watch initially filed a lawsuit in March 2019 after HHS failed to respond to a September 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Judicial Watch requested all contracts, payment records, communications, and documents related to HHS purchasing human organs from aborted fetuses. The FDA and NIH then provided hundreds of documents but redacted some information under the FOIA’s exception 4, claiming such …
Federal Judge Ordered HHS to Release Information on Purchasing Organs Harvested From Human Fetuses
March 16, 2021
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