The activists described the freezer as “the largest and most active fetal organ bank in the nation located at the University of Washington in Seattle.”
The groups obtained a photograph of the walk-in freezer at the university’s Birth Defects Research Laboratory that contains aborted babies’ body parts.
Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising said, “The American people must be made aware of the mass dehumanization of these unborn children who are violently killed and thrown into a freezer, whose body parts are then portioned out to researchers in pursuit of federal funding.”
She called the practice Fetal trafficking, adding it is “abhorrent and it must end.”
While the members of the UW Board of Regents did not react verbally as the pro-life activists confronted them during a public comment session, Bukovinac said “they did seem surprised and several of them seemed interested, concerned, just based on their demeanor and the looks on their faces.”
The Christian Post reached out to the University of Washington for comment. A response was not received by press time.
Bukovinac is not the only pro-life activist seeking more information about UW’s fetal tissue research.
Documents made available as a result of public records requests from the group Indiana Right to Life gave Bukovinac and the other pro-life leaders all the information they needed to find the freezer full of fetal tissue, organs and other body parts.