Abortion extremism’s influence in America
emanates from one of the most prestigious
institutions in California:
the University of California, San Francisco.
FACT: UCSF is the late-term abortion
training capital of the U.S.
There are over 100 active abortion
training programs across the country
run and funded by UCSF
including abortions done after viability
and UCSF has trained more than 2,750
ob-gyns currently practicing in America today.
The director of UCSF’s
Women’s Options Center, Eleanor Drey,
has trained and performed abortions there
for 19 years.
Her stated goal is to “maintain and increase
the number of abortions” that UCSF provides.
FACT: UCSF is the most politically involved
medical institution on the issue of abortion
worldwide.
Making abortion a universal, routine part
of ob-gyn training is one of UCSF’s
stated goals.
Political advocacy is also incorporated
at all levels—
from the curriculum of their students
to the regular work
of its professors and leaders.
FACT: UCSF has engaged in
well documented, high profile
fetal tissue experiments for decades.
FACT: Many experiments rely on
a monthly supply of late-term human fetuses
from elective abortions.
One of the most infamous examples of this
is a recently cancelled contract between
the National Institutes of Health and UCSF
which required a team of scientists
to acquire two fetuses per month
for a period of 12 years.
The term elective means these fetuses
were healthy and free from abnormalities,
fatal or otherwise. 
The pregnancies were also not a result
of sexual violence, and neither the life or
the health of the pregnant people were at risk.
Many of these healthy fetuses
were over 21 weeks old, which means
they could survive outside the womb
if provided medical care.
FACT: Late-term fetuses meant for
experimentation cannot be
euthanized humanely.
Digoxin, the lethal injection to ensure
fetal demise prior to an abortion procedure,
cannot be used on fetuses
intended for medical research,
because feticides severely compromise
the quality of fetal tissue for experimentation.
FACT: UCSF performs late-term abortions
two ways:
live dismemberment and labor induction.
According to their online lectures,
UCSF trains and performs abortions
on viable, pain capable fetuses
either through a D&E procedure,
where the fetus is disarticulated alive
and removed in parts,
or a medical induction, where the cervix
is softened with misoprostol
and labor is induced.
FACT: Medically induced late-term abortions
can result in born-alive infants
up to half of the time.
The Centers for Disease Control
and the Congressional Research Service
both verify the reality of abortion survivors.
According to The Society of Family Planning,
up to 50% of labor induction abortions
without digoxin can result in
Born-Alive Infants.
FACT: Fetal tissue research
continues to this day at UCSF
with the full support of university leadership.
Chancellor Sam Hawgood has been at UCSF
for over 30 years
and is one of the most outspoken defenders
of abortion-linked fetal tissue research
in the nation.
He has openly stated his hostility to any
restrictions on the use of aborted fetal tissue,
despite the known ethical alternatives.
Several NIH contracts involving fetal tissue,
to one extent or another,
are still active at UCSF.
These projects received a combined total
of almost $3 million from the federal
government between 2018 and 2019 alone.
Future cancellation of government funding
for abortion-linked projects will likely
increase the private funding,
and the experiments will continue
uninterrupted.
Pro-Life San Francisco has confronted
Sam Hawgood and the UC Board of Regents
on the following separate occasions:
September 19, 2019
November 14, 2019
January 23, 2020
March 19, 2020
and May 19, 2020.
We have asked for transparency
of their protocols for verifying signs of life
and other concerns related to their
fetal tissue research projects,
including the practice of live dismemberment
and the possibility of infants being born alive
and subsequently killed for experimentation.
So far, the University and the Regents
have failed to respond.
FACT: Abortionists have historically failed
to provide life-saving care for infants
born alive during abortions.
FACT: UCSF has failed to comply
with the local Freedom of Information Act.
On July 3, 2019, Pro-Life San Francisco
submitted a public records request with UCSF.
UCSF has provided no response
to our follow-up inquiry from November.
This is a call to action.
Pro-Life San Francisco is calling on
every member of the public
to join our campaign against UCSF.
We’re demanding safeguards.
We’re demanding transparency.
And we’re demanding humane standards.
No one should be sacrificed
for the health of others.
We will not allow a system to continue
that depends on the destruction
of the marginalized.
Science and ethics must go hand in hand
and our desire for scientific knowledge
should never eclipse conscience.
Live dismemberment must end!
