Thomas More Society attorneys filed a petition in the Fourth Judicial District of Minnesota in Hennepin County, charging the University of Minnesota with illegally procuring and using human fetal tissue for research. The university has a policy in place that obtains fetal tissue from out of state, circumventing the Minnesota legislature’s intended restrictions.
The statute restricts research using the remains to “laboratory tests necessary for the health of the woman or her future offspring or for purposes of a criminal investigation or determination of parentage.”
“What it’s doing is a crime,” said Erick Kaardal, the Minneapolis attorney who filed the claim on behalf of Pro-Life Action Ministries and an unnamed graduate student. “The University of Minnesota is a criminal.”...
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