New Mexico Alliance for Life investigation leads to University of New Mexico disbanding training at late-term abortion facility

New Mexico Alliance for Life investigation leads to University of New Mexico disbanding training at late-term abortion facility

Questions remain regrading UNM's violation of its own policy regarding collection of aborted baby body parts from the late-term abortion facility

Elisa Martinez, NMAFL executive director and Mike Seibel, NMAFL general counsel Photo Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal

Albuquerque - Today the Albuquerque Journal reported the University of New Mexico halted its controversial late-term abortion residency program at the country's largest late-term abortion facility, Southwestern Women's Options (SWO), located in downtown Albuquerque. New Mexico Alliance for Life was the first and only organization to point out multiple policy violations at UNM Health Sciences Center (HSC) regarding its residency program and use of late-term aborted baby body parts. However, many questions remain. It is clear from UNM's contradictory statements in this article that there is an intent to confuse and make excuses. As a public institution, there is a major lack of transparency and taxpayers deserve to know what is going on at the state's flagship university. 

"The fact that UNM HSC disbanded its late-term abortion resident program at SWO is a tacit acknowledgement of guilt in violating their own policies, procedures and blatant misuse of public trust and funds," said Elisa Martinez, executive director of NMAFL. "The flimsy agreement between UNM and late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd, signed by UNM's Dr. Eve Espey, appears to be constructed to conceal the potential sale of late-term baby body parts to UNM, which to date, has withheld any documentation as to the compensation of Curtis Boyd, the compensation of residents and any record of their late-term baby body parts inventory."

As part of an ongoing eight-month investigation, NMAFL confirmed UNM's use of baby body parts from the late-term facility. This spurred a series of questions that have yet to be answered by UNM that NMAFL is working with state leaders to get answers on. 
Despite what UNM claims, it wasn't until NMAFL started asking the tough questions and pointed out policy violations with the late-term abortionist Boyd that UNM halted the residency program.  

While UNM will halt sending residents for training, they have been collecting body parts from SWO and plans to continue to use these body parts for research and distributing the body parts to 19 other universities. However, UNM is violating its own policy of not having the appearance of accepting body parts from an outside entity. 

Furthermore, Dr. David Prentice an expert in stem cell research, after reviewing the UNM studies states, "That the studies are basic science; none of them are even close to any clinical application or trial, let alone "lifesaving". And there are licit, non-controversial alternatives to them all, including adult stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells. Unnecessary, outdated science."

Also, how is Curtis Boyd getting compensated for collecting and providing human body parts? Is he doing this out of the goodness of his heart? He is doing this free of charge, all without pay? What is the incentive for him to freely give aborted babies to the University of New Mexico? 

Is he or his staff altering the abortion procedure to get intact aborted body parts that could endanger the health or safety of women undergoing abortions?
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The New Mexico Alliance for Life is a nonpartisan organization focused on changing state and local laws by empowering women with better and informed choices when facing unplanned or difficult pregnancies and advocating for better protections for women and unborn children from an unsafe abortion industry. For more information visit www.nmallianceforlife.org