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HOUSTON, TX, August 4 2015 (LifeSiteNews)
– A Planned Parenthood official admits that abortionists sometimes
provide “intact” babies' body parts for organ harvesting and
experimentation, in the latest undercover video released by the Center for Medical Progress. It also includes graphic footage of investigators seeing pristine organs extracted from a 20-week-old aborted baby.
The director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa
Farrell, told undercover investigators that abortionists are willing to
alter the abortion process to obtain the body parts researchers request,
or to deliver a child essentially intact.
“They can make it happen,” she said. “We bake that into our contract,
and our protocol, that...we deviate from our standard in order to do
that.”
“Some of our doctors,” she said, “do it [the abortion
procedure] in a way that they get the best specimens, so, I know it can
happen.”
As in the first video, Farrell goes to lunch with the
team, stating that the fees paid for fetal body parts adds tremendous
“diversification of the revenue stream” for the Planned Parenthood
affiliate.
If she is admitting her activity generates a profit,
that violates federal statutes prohibiting the sale of human organs for
“valuable consideration.”
Farrell said the actors, who posed as a human biologics
company, could receive the body parts they needed, and Planned
Parenthood would bill in such a way that the company pays more for
higher quality specimens and abortionists' extra effort.
“If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain
intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget” to cover
“dissections” and “splitting the specimens into different shipments,”
she said. “It’s all just a matter of line items.”
“This is now the fifth member of Planned Parenthood
leadership discussing payments for aborted baby parts without any
connection to actual costs of so-called tissue ‘donation,'” said CMP
Project Lead David Daleiden. “Planned Parenthood’s system-wide
conspiracy to evade the law and make money off of aborted fetal tissue
is now undeniable.”
The last several minutes of the video again shows graphic footage of
the investigators inside the laboratories of the Houston abortion
facility, combing through the body parts of a 20-week-old baby.
“It was a twin,” an employee says as she retrieves the remains from the refrigerator.
Clearly developed hands and feet are seen in the dish, as the investigator pulls out a lung with a pair of tweezers.
“Sometimes they come out really intact,” a tech told the pair of actors.
An employee added that, at later gestational age, “the 20-, 22-weekers we do, we get a lot better.”
“The organs come out really, really well,” she said.
An employee adds that Planned Parenthood's ability to
extract intact babies depends on “how cooperative the patient is during
the procedure,” especially once “you've pretty much maxed out...their
[pain] tolerance.”
Whatever the method, more Planned Parenthood affiliates
nationwide may soon be participating. During a conversation with
Farrell, an employee states that the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America (PPFA) is “encouraging more participation” in the fetal organ
procurement program, “but they don't want to get too into the mix of
it.”
Today's release follows a temporary restraining order imposed last Friday by federal judge William H. Orrick, III, an Obama donor
who was then nominated for the federal bench by the president. The
restraining order was requested by the National Abortion Federation.
Today's footage was released as a 15-minute-long video
excerpt. In past cases, the CMP has quickly made the full, unedited
footage available, as well.
Daleiden has said the organization has hours of video
footage and a likely eight or more videos to release from its
30-month-long investigation. But he said the first five videos have
already educated the public about the stark realities of aborted
children organ sales.
“Anyone who watches these videos knows that Planned
Parenthood is engaged in barbaric practices and human rights abuses that
must end,” Daleiden said. “There is no reason for an organization that
uses illegal abortion methods to sell baby parts and commit such
atrocities against humanity to still receive over $500 million each year
from taxpayers.”
Last night, a bill to defund Planned Parenthood garnered a majority of Senate votes but failed to pass due to parliamentary rules re instituted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Topic: 5th Video: ‘It was a twin!’: New video shows dissection of 20-week baby for body parts at Planned Parenthood - Fight to Defund Planned Parenthood Not Over Yet
