ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A Tennessee congresswoman is calling for an investigation into whether a clinic's transfer of aborted fetuses to the University of New Mexico violated a state law.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who chairs the U.S. House Select Panel on Infant Lives, wants New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas to review the practice.
Southwestern Women's Options, which is a provider of early and late-term abortions, has been providing fetal tissue to UNM for medical research.
Blackburn said Thursday that UNM Health Sciences Center and Southwestern Women's Options appear to have gone against the Spradling Act.
Attorneys working for the panel say the 2007 law only allows for the donation or transfer of stillbirth fetuses or fetuses resulting from miscarriages.
A spokesman for Balderas declined to comment.