A federal judge has 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 recent court filing. Two agencies of 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) for 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. The nonprofit watchdog group 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 information is …
HHS Ordered to Release Info on Purchase of Aborted Human Fetal Organs
March 16, 2021
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