By Deacon Mike Manno
(The Wanderer) – I don’t know if I speak for everyone, but I do
think that most of us take pride in the institutions from which we have
graduated. That may be a little more difficult when one of those institution is
a Jesuit college, but I manage and hope that you do, too.
And like many of you I happily wear T-shirts and sweatshirts emblazoned with
their names and images of their mascot — yes, even the blue jay!
Anyway I thought of that this
morning when I read from several sources that the University of Pittsburgh
would like to become the distribution hub for fetal parts. I don’t know what
kind of mascot it has for that, but I don’t think I’d wear it, even though the
school, I guess to show its “wokeness,” is claiming that its baby part business
will conform to strict racial quotas.
Judicial Watch and the Center
for Medical Progress (CMP) have reported that they have received public records
from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) about government-sponsored fetal
experimentation at the University of Pittsburgh. According to David Daleiden,
founder and president of the Center for Medical Progress:
“The NIH grant application for
just one of Pitt’s numerous experiments with aborted infants reads like an
episode of American Horror Story. Infants in the womb, some old enough to be
viable, are being aborted alive and killed for organ harvesting, in order to
bring in millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for Pitt and the Planned
Parenthood abortion business it supports. People are outraged by such disregard
for the lives of the vulnerable. Law enforcement and public officials should
act immediately to bring the next Kermit Gosnell to justice under the law.”
According to the report, the
NIH was the subject of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by
CMP over a year ago. When the requested documents were not produced, Judicial
Watch went to court on behalf of CMI to demand them.
The documents finally produced
include the university’s original grant application from 2015 to become the
fetal tissue distribution hub for the Genito-Urinary Development Molecular
Anatomy Project (GUDMAP). In its application, Pitt touts its “over 18 years of
experience” collecting fetal body parts from aborted babies and suggests that
its existing fetal tissue collections “can be significantly ramped up.”
In a grisly reminder of Kermit
Gosnell, Pitt’s application boasts of its ability to minimize “ischemia time” —
that is, according to the NIH, “the time a tissue, organ, or body part remains
at body temperature after its blood supply has been reduced or cut off but
before it is cooled or reconnected to a blood supply.”
The university, in its
application says, “We record the warm ischemic time on our samples and take
steps to keep it at a minimum to ensure the highest quality biological
specimens. We get feedback from our users and utilize this feedback to tailor
our collection processes on a case-by-case basis to maximize the needs of
investigators.” In other words, the school is stating that it is proficient in
keeping the fetal body parts at or close to body temperature.
Which means that in reference
to a whole body fetus, where the heartbeat and blood circulation continue in a
labor-induced abortion, “the fetus is being delivered while still alive and the
cause of death is the removal of its organs,” according to CMP.
Judicial Watch says that the documents from Pitt reveal, among other things,
the following:
“The aims of the project
listed in the original 2015 proposal were to ‘develop a pipeline’ to the
acquisition, quality control, and distribution of human genitourinary [urinary
and genital organs and functions] samples obtained throughout development (6-42
weeks gestation)…[and] generate an ongoing resource to distribute fresh
developmental human genitourinary samples from various stages (6-42 weeks) to
the GUDMAP.
“In the proposal, Pitt
notes that it has been ‘collecting fetal tissue for over 10 years . . .
include[ing] liver, heart, gonads, legs, brain, genitourinary tissues including
kidneys, ureters, and bladders.’
“Pitt noted in 2015 ‘we have
disbursed over 300 fresh samples collected from 77 cases. The
collections can be significantly ramped up as material could have been accrued
from as many as 725 cases last year.’
“Pitt boasts it has a number
of internal connections as well as a ‘strong working relationship with UPMC
[University of Pittsburgh Medical Center] and the Department of Pathology’ as
well as three ‘laboratories in the flagship UPMC hospitals.’ This includes a
lab boasting a ‘Butcherboy band saw for sectioning bone,’ and a ‘frozen
section room has digital video feed to and from the operating rooms. This also
allows for instantaneous discussions with the surgeons as well [as] immediate
“show and tell” for them.’ The proposal ironically also boasts about the
laboratories at the ‘Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.’
“The Pitt scientists note
that, ‘All fetal tissue is collected through a collaborative process including
Family Planning, Obstetrics, and Pathology.’ And that, ‘the numbers of consents
and collections has been steadily increasing…and we are in an excellent
position to expand our services to include the needs of the GUDMAP Atlas
projects.’
“Pitt anticipated ‘being able
to harvest and distribute quality tissue and cells…[and] do not
anticipate any major problems related to the acquisition and distribution of
the tissues.’
“Pitt’s target
goal ‘is to have available a minimum of 5 cases (tissues and if possible
other biologicals) per week of gestational age for ages 6-42 weeks.’
“Pitt’s proposal requested
more than $3.2 million over a five-year period. The documents show
NIH has funded at least $2.7 million so far for Pitt’s human fetal tissue
harvesting and hub.”
Additionally, the university
also states in its application that its harvesting program will include
“Inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals on the basis of sex/gender, race, and
ethnicity.” It claims that it will use only white “patients” for half of its
“inventory” and of the other half of what it calls “minority patients,” half of
those will be black.
“These documents
show taxpayer money is being used to turn the University of Pittsburgh is
a one-stop human fetal tissue shop — from procuring the tissue from elective
abortions, ‘subdividing’ the human remains, to distributing and shipping the
harvested tissue,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Yeah, somehow, even if I went
there, I wouldn’t want to wear a Pitt sweatshirt. The Jesuits are starting to
look a lot better right now!
(You can reach Mike at:
DeaconMike@q.com and listen to him every Thursday at 10 a.m. Central on Faith
On Trial on IowaCatholicRadio.com.)
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