May 7, 2021
The Pennsylvania House Health Committee held a hearing Tuesday on the University of Pittsburgh’s experimentation with aborted fetuses, including experiments grafting aborted baby scalps onto mice. Pitt denies that the aborted fetuses are supplied by a local Planned Parenthood, and that their research is funded by taxpayer dollars, but Tuesday’s hearing featured witnesses testifying otherwise.
In the fall of 2020, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh published a study titled, “Development of humanized mouse and rat models with full-thickness human skin and autologous immune cells.” In studying how organs reacted to pathogens or infections on human skin, researchers grafted “full-thickness human skin” as well as thymuses, livers, and spleens from fetuses onto rodent bodies, creating what they call “humanized rat models.”
WITF Registered nurse Mary Lou Arocena holds a photo of a nurse who died from COVID-19. Arocena, 60, worked as nurse for 35 years before retiring last year, facing burnout from the stress of the job
Nurses in Pennsylvania’s largest health care union say COVID-19 has shown the need for a state policy requiring a minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratio.
For several years, SEIU Health Care and some state lawmakers have made the case that staffing ratios would save lives and improve patient care in hospitals.
This year, however, nurses came to the state Capitol carrying the trauma of the pandemic, said registered nurse Mary Lou Arocena.