Posted on 07/30/2015 12:48:29 PM PDT by Morgana
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton testified today in front of the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services regarding the active ongoing investigation into Planned Parenthood’s practices. The investigation follows the recent publication of several videos showing Planned Parenthood officials apparently discussing the harvesting and sale of human baby body parts.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office (OAG) announced the investigation on July 15 in coordination with the Texas Governor’s Office and Health and Human Services Commission. In his testimony, Attorney General Paxton revealed some of what OAG investigators saw at a clinic in Houston and denounced the institution of abortion.
Excerpts from Attorney General Paxton’s testimony are below:
“As you all know, several weeks ago, videos began to surface of Planned Parenthood officials talking candidly, and bluntly, about the prospect of essentially selling body parts of aborted babies. Shortly thereafter, my office, coordinating with Gov. Abbott and officials at the HHSC, launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood’s activities in Texas. Our goal is to find out if anyone anywhere in Texas has violated the law, and if so, to seek legal redress.”
“Our investigators are working across Texas to gather information and evidence relevant to the case. Last week, after a meeting at a Houston Planned Parenthood clinic, officials there invited our team to take a look around, including a stop at what they call the ‘POC Room.’ POC stands for ‘Products of Conception.’ There, lab technicians receive the remains of aborted children – also known as ‘the products’ – which are washed, examined, bagged, refrigerated, accumulated and every week taken away by a contractor that burns their bodies as medical waste.”
“As my staffers watched, a technician took an aborted child from a jar, rinsed it in a colander, and placed the body parts in a tray. Fingers and toes, exceptionally tiny but fully-formed, were clearly visible. The remains were eventually deposited in a red plastic bag, about the size of an average grocery sack. According to the people at the facility, they average at least 260 pounds of “medical waste” a week, every week.”
“The videos that have made all the headlines raise a large number of troubling allegations, allegations that – again – my office is aggressively investigating and we will go to any and all lawful lengths to get to the bottom of what has been happening. But more than any misdeeds involving the sale of aborted baby parts is this fundamental truth: the true abomination in all this is the institution of abortion.”
“Even if their body parts are never sold, or never used for research, for the babies who are killed in abortion clinics – more than 54,000 last year in Texas and more than 57 million in the United States since 1973 – their fate is a plastic bag in a refrigerator, and anonymous disposal in an incinerator somewhere.”
“For us, when we pass on, our bodies will be treated with reverence and respect, even those of us who choose to donate our remains to science. Even the remains of our most vicious criminals are treated with respect. For the children who never had a chance at life, however, they become so-called medical waste, or – alternatively – a commodity to be bargained for. Neither fate is an appropriate end for any human being.”
“At a minimum, the people involved project a cold, calculating, almost inhuman indifference to the lives they treat as a product they’re attempting to sell. At worst, they may represent a violation of state and federal laws. My office will continue to investigate these issues, and – if necessary – we will seek to bring any Texans that might be involved to justice.”
“Over the past several days, there have been reports that my office, as part of our investigation, has gained possession of hours of video recordings involving a Texas branch of Planned Parenthood. These reports are accurate. I cannot go into detail about these recordings at this time, but they appear to be consistent with other videos that have been released regarding Planned Parenthood.”
“This [hearing] is a strong example of our state’s leadership working together to ensure the people of Texas are fully aware of what’s going on within our state’s borders.”
***VIDEO ON LINK***
It is unclear which Planned Parenthood was visited but the Houston Mega Center has been a part of the pro-life sting according to reports.
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston has participated in fetal tissue donation, partnering with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 2010 for a study on causes of miscarriages.
Soon after the first undercover video was released, state leaders ordered investigations into Planned Parenthood, the Texas Tribune reported.
More:
That investigation has included visits to the Houston clinic by representatives of the Department of State Health Services and the attorney general’s office, Planned Parenthood officials said Sunday. The investigators requested information about the clinic’s practices regarding fetal tissue donations, Tafolla said.
More sickening reality.
Where do the find the “technicians” to work in the “products of conception” room? What kind of sick freak would do such a “job”?
Planned Parenthood is a fetus ‘chop shop’. In a normal world, this should bring the DemonCrat party DOWN. Odunga just recently spoke in support of PP, after these revelations. Unbelievable.
“Reality” is the word.
I wonder.
Our public schools are soooo into education our children about the joys of sex. The normalcy and joys of homosexual sex. They take them to shows and teach them about toys.
Perhaps our K-12 education should include a little tour through the POC room of PP...
(These are the same kids who faint while watching a YouTube video of a dead deer being gutted. I doubt that they’d last.)
I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a least one of them had enough of a conscience to experience second thoughts about what she had seen, and might be persuaded to turn state’s evidence for a promise of immunity.
Even more sickening is what I heard on the radio earlier today. A woman who worked in a clinic (I forget what state) said they routinely used a common garbage disposal in their sink to dispose of “tissue.”
Sick bastards! I don’t understand how they are able to sleep peacefully.
EXCERPT:
By necessity, the growth of radical movements are often fed with euphemistic language to encourage support, disguise true goals, and mask diabolical schemes. It’s a way of making unsavory acts more acceptable by referring to them using euphemisms. As George Orwell astutely noted in 1984, “ if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” The Third Reich mastered euphemisms which corrupted the mind of a nation.
Hitler used the innocuous term, “Final Solution” to describe the systematic elimination of all European Jews. The Fuhrer euphemistically called facilities for killing German children, “infant homes” or “special children’s wards.” Albert Speer, Hitler’s cohort, acknowledged that euphemistic language played a key role by carrying out “the whole structure of the system which was aimed at preventing conflicts of conscience from even arising.”
Nothing invites complacency more than reassuring language.
http://www.catholicvote.org/abortion-and-its-evil-twin-euphemism/
As I have said before, if the Left ever succeeds in its dream of setting up concentration camps for bitter clingers in the desert southwest, they will have no problem at all hiring guards and gas-chamber operators and crematorium attendants.
They're all around us, right now.
“Where do the find the “technicians” to work in the “products of conception” room? What kind of sick freak would do such a “job”?”
Allow me to explain how that works.
When a person comes to work at an abortion facility they are NEVER put to work in the POC or “Products of Conception” room first day. People at the clinic know if that happened their workers would quit, usually by lunch time.
They are started off by working the front office answering phones and filing papers then after about two to three mounts they are gradually taken to work in the POC room. This after doing other jobs around the clinic like cleaning up the rooms abortions took place in. This is to lessen the shock when they are in the POC room.
Now do you get it?
About 1980 I was performing a financial audit of a large hospital in Pennsylvania. I was very surprised to find a Revenue Account “Placenta Sales”. Upon inquiry, they explained that the afterbirth was being sold to cosmetic companies as an ingredient in cosmetics.
Time for Loretta Lynch to investigate the Texas investigators...
Paxton sounds like a good guy!
Probably industrial type/size
Sickening.
At the Waansee conference in January 1942, high-ranking Germans discussed the “final solution” of the “Jewish problem”.
They recognized that following orders to execute Jews, gypsies, communists, and similar prisoners was taking a toll on German soldiers.
http://spartacus-educational.com/GERfinal.htm
“Special units from the SS were set up under the control of Heinrich Himmler to carry out this extermination programme. At first the victims were shot but, with a high proportion of those involved in the killings suffering from nervous breakdowns a more impersonal method was developed.”
Even the former chicken farmer Himmler was sickened upon visiting a killing site.
The left is always trying to link the struggle of African Americans for equality to homosexuals, which on its face is a specious, even fatuous comparison.
The real comparison is between Himmler and the Nazis and Sanger and Planned Parenthood.
Most people walked or drove/drive by the sites where these horrendous, ghoulish activities took/take place and they then went/go about their lives.
In the death camps and abortion clinics, what is being done is so heinous that it sickens any normal person who learns of the details.
Never forget that the residents of Auschwitz/Oszwiecem and all of the workers at the nearby IG Farben factory knew exactly what was happening. They saw the starving jews walking by every day, saw them being worked to death, saw them trudging back. That's why Otto Schindler's acts were true heroism -- all of the other people just like him bought into the euphemisms and looked away.
One of the sickest parts of the tour at Auschwitz I (where they housed Poles and political prisoners for the most part) is near the end of the tour, after you've seen Block 11 and the torture rooms, the abominable living conditions, the mustering ground, and you walk down a long road that terminates in a galley. Off to the right is the Commandant's house; to the left is the remains of the first gas chamber. From the house, you would smell the camp daily, you could not fail to see the prisoners dying, or hear their screams. The commandant's wife, however, described her time at Auschwitz as one of the happiest and most pleasant times of her life.
Did you see them picking around the body parts, "Need an eyeball?"
Talking baby body parts and abortion procedures, never missing a bite of lunch.
And...during the career path you describe they are probably confront by people in their personal life that uppose abortion. They first fall back on... “I’m just a secretary.” ...or... “I’m just the receptionist.” All while getting conditioned to being confronted about where they work, without the need to defend it and reassured at work that “...those people are crazy.” That complacency will serve them well later.
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