Statement on Fetal Experimentation

Dear Rep. Bernstine and Rep. D’Orsie,

Thank you for your steadfast commitment to protecting pregnant women, preborn children, people with disabilities, and the frail elderly. We appreciate your consistent support for safeguarding innocent human life.

The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation has been a strong and clear voice in defense of the most vulnerable among us since 1979. Our members were instrumental in the successful passage of the 1989 Abortion Control Act, which became a model for the rest of the nation and was the basis of the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey. That groundbreaking legislation included an important provision regarding fetal experimentation in Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation strongly opposes the use of aborted baby body parts in gruesome scientific experimentation. We remain committed to ending this grisly practice, which represents a defilement of human remains and promotes abortion—the taking of an innocent, unrepeatable human life. We condemn the use of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars to pay for such inhumane experimentation. We continue to work toward ending federal grants from the National Institutes of Health which pay for this ghastly practice.

The Federation encourages the General Assembly to determine whether such experimentation at any academic institution in Pennsylvania violates the fetal experimentation section of the Abortion Control Act so that it can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

We look forward to working with you to protect innocent human life in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

                                                                         Sincerely,

                                                                         Susan Rogacs

                                                                         President of the Board of Directors