Last month, by terminating a grotesque contract for “fresh” aborted baby parts from Planned Parenthood partners Advanced Bioscience Resources, and by launching a comprehensive review of taxpayer-funded baby-parts experimentation, the Department of Health and Human Services took a small first step to stop the epidemic of trafficking tiny baby hearts, lungs, livers, and brains from late-term abortion clinics into government-sponsored laboratories for taxpayer-funded experimentation.

It was the least HHS Secretary Alex Azar could do to terminate the most recent known contract HHS signed in July with a notorious Planned Parenthood-linked company to purchase $16,000 of “fresh” aborted baby organs and tissues for implantation into so-called “humanized mice.” HHS signed the contract with Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc., or ABR, a nearly 30-year-old California Bay Area business that has been partnered with Planned Parenthood for almost two decades to harvest and sell fresh aborted baby body parts, often for taxpayer-funded experimentation.