[The Federalist] A new report shows that an organization that harvests aborted baby organs for research has been charging more than what is legally reimbursable.The 11-page report details how Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR), which is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ), charged universities a significantly marked-up price for the organs it harvested from aborted babies.
Federal law prohibits the sale or purchase of fetal tissue ‐ that is, human body parts harvested from pre-born or aborted babies ‐ for "valuable consideration." The law does, however, allow reimbursing baby body part suppliers for costs "associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue."
This is the very workaround that undercover videos showed abortion giant Planned Parenthood using to make money from human remains. That got it hauled into Congress for investigations but as of yet has cost PP none of its half trillion in annual federal funding.
The Center for Medical Progress released a report on Monday showing ABR charged researchers up to hundreds of dollars per harvested human organ in addition to packing and shipping fees ‐ prices that indicate the organization may have been marking up the cost of fetal tissue beyond what is legally reimbursable.