Senator Joni Ernst said Anthony Fauci approved the use of aborted baby body parts in mice research conducted by NIH‑funded researcher Ralph Baric at UNC.
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- Senator Joni Ernst said Anthony Fauci approved the use of aborted baby body parts in mice research conducted by NIH‑funded researcher Ralph Baric at UNC.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has revealed that Fauci approved the use of “aborted baby body parts in mice research.”
“NIH‑funded coronavirus researcher Dr. Ralph Baric and his colleagues at UNC put parts of livers, thymus and chunks of human fetal lung that they got from aborted, almost five‑month‑old human babies,” Ernst said.
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Origin: extracted from The 5 most shocking moments from Anthony Fauci's Senate COVID testimony · 2026-09-12 07:58