by WND Staff at WND News Center
Hundreds of pages of U.S. Food and Drug Administration records obtained under a Freedom of Information Act case brought by government watchdog Judicial Watch reveal the U.S. government was buying the heads of unborn babies, and other body parts, for its “humanized mice” project.
The watchdog organization announced this week it has obtained 198 pages of records from the FDA confirming the purchase plans for “human fetal heads, organs and tissue.”
The “supplies” came from Advanced Bioscience Resources, and many of the deals were reached between Perrin Lawton, of ABR, and Kristina Howard, an officer with the FDA.
The lawsuit over the records had sought “all contracts and related documentation on disbursement of funds, procedural documents and communications between FDA and ABR for the provision of human fetal tissue to be used in humanized mice research.”
A federal court recently ordered the government to provide more details about the purchase of the human body parts, “including ‘line item prices,’ or the price per organ the government paid to ABR,” Judicial Watch said.
“The court also found ‘there is reason to question’ whether the transactions violate federal law barring the sale of fetal organs. Documents previously uncovered in this lawsuit show that the federal government demanded the purchased fetal organs be ‘fresh and never frozen,’” Judicial Watch reported.
Among the details revealed was that there was an agreement in 2012 for “$12,000 worth of ’tissue procurement for humanized mice,’” and even though the initial award was for $12,000 it ended up costing some $60,000, the report said.
Some of the body parts came at the rate of $230 per tissue, with two to a box, plus shipping and more.
Another, regarding the purchase and delivery of “fetal livers and thymuses,” set the price per “set” at $580, although that went up to $685.
An “intact calvarium (baby’s skull)” was going for $515.
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