The disregard for human life is racing to an all-time low in America.

Officials are calling for a formal investigation of the University of Pittsburgh after reports about the abuse of unborn babies in a research project funded by the federal government.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has spent at least $2.7 million on the project at Pitt, which uses a tissue bank with organs from unborn babies who were aborted.

Pitt told HHS in 2015 that it has been “collecting fetal tissue for over 10 years … includ[ing] liver, heart, gonads, legs, brain, genitourinary tissues including kidneys, ureters and bladders.”

Pennsylvania Rep. Kathy Rapp and GOP Senate candidate Sean Parnell want an explanation.

“If these allegations are true that scientists at the University of Pittsburgh were harvesting kidneys of unborn babies while their hearts were still beating, they should not only have their taxpayer funding immediately suspended, everyone involved should face criminal charges,” Parnell wrote on Twitter.

Documents released by Judicial Watch show Pitt talking about efforts to minimize warm ischemic time – the amount of time an organ stays the same temperature after blood flow is halted.  The documents showed what many have described as a disproportionate number of minority fetuses.

University officials have denied the allegations.

Killing unborn babies is murder, no matter what the Court says. If this program harvests organs from living unborn babies, it parallels the Holocaust in terms of barbarism and disregard for the life of innocent children.

This must be stopped.