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University of New Mexico aborted fetal research gets national media attention

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University of New Mexico aborted fetal research gets national media attention

A video of the head of the Health Sciences Center at the University of New Mexico admitting the university allowed high school students to dissect fetal brains in a summer camp program has gotten the attention of a national media outlet, which may mean more mainstream coverage is imminent.

Fox News reported this week on the June 23 report from the House Select Panel on Infant Lives in which it referred the university to the New Mexico attorney general for criminal charges for possibly violating New Mexico’s Jonathan Spradling Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.

One of the issues on which Fox reports is the dissection of aborted fetal brains by summer camp students. The story notes:

It’s likely that this story got Fox’s attention when, recently, the chancellor of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, who is also the dean of the medical school, Paul Roth, admitted on video — even after being told he was being recorded — that high school students did, in fact, dissect fetal brains in summer camp:

Thumbnail for Dr. Paul Roth on UNM HSC's dissection of "fetal brains" with summer camp students

Fox News Reports:

While the report from Fox News is not new, the fact the flagship state university is now garnering the attention of national media is in indicator that this is a story that’s not going away quietly.

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