Legal watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday announced the filing of a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records related to the funding of a fetal tissue research program at the University of Pittsburgh.“Americans have a right to know basic information about the taxpayer-funded abortion industrial complex,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “As long as the government continues to fund these gruesome projects, Judicial Watch will work to expose them.”
The suit invokes the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in its demand for the records. Judicial Watch filed the case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
At issue is a grant that the National Institutes of Health gave to the university. Judicial Watch previously filed a FOIA request for the records, with which the suit alleges that HHS failed to comply.
The organization previously uncovered that nearly $3 million in federal funds went to the University of Pittsburgh in relation to tissue research.
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