Last Monday, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Magee-Womens Hospital Board of Directors got a wake-up call from pro-life leaders at its first public meeting in four years.
Board members were forced to come out of hiding after being cited in March for violating state code by not allowing yearly public attendance. Magee closed its board meetings one month after the publication of a University of Pittsburgh study that grafted the scalps of babies killed in abortions performed at the hospital to mice and rats.
Pennsylvania governmental figures who made statements before the board last week included retired Superior Court Judge Cheryl Allen and State Rep. Tim Bonner.
Judge Allen, a graduate of Pitt’s law school, stated that she was “extremely disturbed” by her alma mater’s research using aborted tissue. She condemned Magee’s consent form for fetal tissue donation, noting that the document’s wording “entices women who are at their most vulnerable” by suggesting that aborted babies could contribute to new discoveries and treatments. She brought to mind the similar reasoning of Nazi scientists, who believed that unethical medical experiments were for the greater good of society.
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Rep. Tim Bonner gave examples of how preborn babies had been given “significant legal rights throughout history” while being denied the basic right to life in the present day at Magee. He extended a prayer that board members would reach the conclusion that the fetus in the womb was “a maturing human
