Posted on 09/15/2015 8:01:51 AM PDT by wagglebee
September 15, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Planned Parenthood officials are proud of being able to harvest "fresh" babies' organs, including eyes and genitals, and admit such practices "generate a fair amount of income" in the latest video released by the Center for Medical Progress, released this morning.
The video, the fourth in CMP's "Human Capital" series, captured abortion industry leaders saying that money for aborted babies' body parts is a "valid exchange" - but the organization will not be "bullied by ridiculous laws."
Leaders also admit the national office deliberately keeps all discussion of such activity at arms-length, and exposing the gruesome undertaking could be "a huge PR issue."
In the latest video, Dr. Carolyn Westhoff - who is the Senior Medical Advisor for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) - tells undercover investigators they are able to extract a wide variety of organs from aborted babies.
"We’ve just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural...Oh my God, gonads," Dr. Westhoff says.
"Everything we provide is fresh," she boasts.
She then offers to introduce the faux organ buyers to “national office abortion people” to facilitate their specific purchases. But all such interactions must be discreet.
“Obviously, we would have the potential for a huge PR [public relations] issue in doing this," Dr. Westhoff says.
Other abortion industry officials agree.
"It’s an issue that you might imagine we’re not really that comfortable talking about on e-mail,"Deborah VanDerhei, the director of Planned Parenthood's Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAP), affirms.
Dr. Deborah Nucatola, who was featured eating salad during a business lunch in the first investigative video, has a similar assessment.
"There are no guidelines" from Planned Parenthood's national office on organ procurement and payment, Nucatola tells them. "There will never be guidelines."
Nonetheless, VanDerhei tells CMP investigators, "We have independent colleagues who generate a fair amount of income doing this.”
That comment seems to undermine Planned Parenthood's continual assertions that they make no money from its "fetal tissue donation" program, which it presents as a "humanitarian undertaking."
In the video, Vanessa Russo, Compliance Program Administrator for Planned Parenthood Keystone in Pennsylvania, defends the practice wholeheartedly -- even if it runs afoul of federal laws.. “A company like this that wants to give our organization money for the tissue–I think that that’s a valid exchange, and that that’s OK,” she says.
U.S. statutory law makes it a federal felony to receive "valuable consideration" - that is, economic profit of any sort - in exchange for human organs, something abortionists deny they receive.
"We feel like we can't consent to be bullied by ridiculous laws," Russo says.
"Planned Parenthood runs their abortion and baby parts business in open disregard for the law and should be prosecuted immediately,” says David Daleiden, Project Lead for CMP.
But PPFA leaders worry about the optics of trading in organs. Dr. Vanessa Cullins, Vice President for External Medical Affairs for PPFA, worries on camera, “This could destroy your organization and us, if we don’t time those conversations correctly."
However, VanDerhei states she has been trying to manage potential fallout with the abortion industry as a whole. She tells them she has "been talking to the executive director of the National Abortion Federation. We’re trying to figure this out as an industry, about how we’re going to manage remuneration, because the headlines would be a disaster.”
Daldeiden says this should rip the mask off the organization's brutality.
“From e-mail blackouts to contorted oxymorons like ‘donation for remuneration,’ the lengths to which Planned Parenthood leadership will go to cover-up their illegal sale of aborted baby parts are nothing less than the desperation of a guilty conscience," Daleiden says.
The newest video comes during Congressional investigations – sparked by its previous video releases – as well as a brewing Capitol Hill fight to defund the nation's leading abortion provider.
“Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards openly admits they receive ‘$60 per tissue specimen,’ and their contracts with StemExpress offer payments per fetus ‘determined in the clinic to be usable,’" Daleiden says.
"Their taxpayer funding should be reassigned to Federally Qualified Health Centers, which provide more and comprehensive health services at locations outnumbering Planned Parenthood 20 to 1,” Daleiden suggested today.
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Once you condone murdering babies, nothing else really matters.
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I watch a lot of nature programs on PBS. All hell breaks loose when someone slaughters a rhino for its horn.
Too true.
If Congress only had balls.
I wish the American public was taking this seriously but unfortunately the liberals have been able to control the message by saying that the videos were doctored and edited so badly that they were useless and Americans seem to believe it. I am so sick of the people in our country lately. We are going liberal so quickly and the populous seems ok with it. The e-mail thing seems to be finishing....planned parenthood is not going anywhere....gay marriage is here to stay just like Obamacare and other liberal junk is here.....pot will be nationwide within 10 years........jail will be a resort because we can’t have punishment in this country.....and nobody will have a job but each of us will be given 35,000 guaranteed income and told to shut up.
What’s sad about all of this is that this is the 10th video showing these practices, but socially, nobody cares. Social media and youth culture see this as a “Christian problem” and dismiss it as much ado about nothing. Modern society doesn’t want “choice” to go away, so they dismiss this as a “choice” that someone made and these vile humans as people sifting through the garbage for treasure.
I believe society has irreparably changed and has become largely secular. Christians are appalled by this. By and large, the rest of the world just doesn’t care.
The entire democrat party has chosen to support this because feminazis vote democrat and send big bucks.
God WILL NOT remain silent!!
I tend to disagree. I think the outcry that we've seen over these videos represents the height of hypocrisy.
What's sad about this is the reaction of the so-called "pro-life community" that is suddenly up in arms demanding that Big Murder be defunded. Why now? What has changed?
Since 1973 OVER 60 MILLION INNOCENT AMERICANS have been murdered. In addition to the carnage, there has been a societal and demographic crisis created that few are even aware of.
If it's okay to kill a baby EVERY 24 SECONDS, why the moral outrage when the butcher decides to sell off the parts?
While I respect your opinion, wagglebee, my impressions are very much different if samples are taken outside of the bubble of FR. Much of the social media and mainstream news sphere doesn’t give this carnage any airtime, and when it does, it’s often casting Christians in a negative light.
I am appalled and dismayed by the attitudes of those on social media and by much of today’s youth. I don’t see positive outcomes from this.
On the contrary, there are a great many on Free Republic who would describe themselves as pro-life, but are more incensed by the sale of body parts than they are by the actual murder.
Much of the social media and mainstream news sphere doesn’t give this carnage any airtime, and when it does, it’s often casting Christians in a negative light.
Much to the dismay of Pro-Life, Inc., this is their biggest fundraising opportunity ever.
I am appalled and dismayed by the attitudes of those on social media and by much of today’s youth. I don’t see positive outcomes from this.
Of course their won't be positive outcomes from this. Once a society stands by and condones the slaughter of an entire generation any hope of morality has basically been extinguished.
I hear you.
Once you condone murdering babies ...Gruesome details like in these videos may wake up some indifferent people, but an ardent "choicer" wouldn't care even if the fresh meat were being made into sausages.
Um, that’s “capital crime.”
“”... there are a great many on Free Republic who would describe themselves as pro-life, but are more incensed by the sale of body parts than they are by the actual murder.”
I am pro-life, and I am orders of magnitude more upset by the murder than the body parts selling.
According to the Constitution, killing someone without due process is a felony.
And since an innocent American is being murdered every 24 seconds, these “doctors” are committing felonies every 24 seconds in this country.
How is it that they are not being arrested and prosecuted for murder of innocent Americans? How did this come to pass here?”
How ?
Voting for the LESSER EVIL. Soon, there is no leadership left that isn’t evil.
We should offer to show the videos on college campuses with free popcorn and candy. Students would come out of curiosity and for free food. They would not leave unchanged.
We have to get our message out. We need to think about many ways to do this. What has been watched cannot be unwatched.
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