Watchdog claims Biden-era DoD grants are going to research using human fetus parts in animal tests

A government watchdog on Wednesday published a study that found Department of Defense (DoD) grants awarded under the Biden administration are still being used to conduct animal studies with tissue from aborted human fetuses.

The study comes after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said last month that it would not renew 17 of its grants that conduct experiments with human fetal tissue, and a congressional committee voted to defund the experiments and pull funding for the NIH grants next year. 

The watchdog White Coat Waste (WCW) found that the Defense grants are being used to fund experiments that implant parts of aborted human fetuses, including fingers and scalps, into lab animals. 

“For years, [WCW] has fought to ensure taxpayers aren't be forced to foot the bill for nightmarish experiments that crudely implant fingers, scalps, and other parts from aborted human fetuses into animals," WCW founder Anthony Bellotti said in a statement. 

"A recent WCW investigation exposed—and prompted the Trump administration to end—funding for these sickening animal experiments at the [NIH]," he continued. "Now that we’ve uncovered the same spending problem at the Pentagon, we’re urging [Defense] Secretary [Pete] Hegseth to join them. The solution to Pentagon's wasteful and stomach-churning animal tests with aborted human fetus parts is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness.”

The full results of the investigation can be viewed here.

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