This experiment was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health. In 1988, the Reagan Administration declared a moratorium on all U.S. federally-funded research involving transplantation of fetal parts harvested from elective abortions. While the Uniform Anatomic Gift Act makes it a federal crime to buy and sell fetal tissue, abortionists have engineered ways to jump through the legal loopholes protecting themselves. Re-searchers, in turn, pay the parts provider a fee for the privilege of receiving fetal tissue. Therefore, all parties claim there is no buying or selling of fetal tissue.
Researchers then compensate the provider for the cost of tissue recovery.
It becomes apparent why the abortion industry lobbies so hard against any federal or state ban on partial-birth abortion. The selling of fetal body parts is a very lucrative part of the abortion industry. Pregnant women are charged a substantial amount for a partial-birth abortion by an abortionist who, in turn, sells the fetal body parts out the back door. Despite best efforts to terminate the life of the fetus before completed delivery, occasionally a child is born alive. This is exactly what happened to Kelly while working at an abortion clinic.