Posted on 06/11/2016 6:27:43 PM PDT by Coleus
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn has taken a lot of heat for leading the investigation of the abortion industry and the trafficking of aborted baby body parts.Blackburn said she is concerned that both pregnant women and their unborn babies are being used as a “profit center” for abortion facilities and tissue procurement groups. Blackburn chairs the Select Panel on Infant Lives, a special U.S. Congressional committee established to investigate the abortion industry and groups that handle aborted baby body parts. Congress launched the investigation after a series of undercover videos showed top Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted babies’ body parts.
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Some of the recent evidence uncovered by the committee shows a procurement group charging tax on the sale of three aborted babies’ brains, Blackburn said in the new interview. The evidence indicates that “this is something that has moved into a profit-motive structure, and we’re very concerned about what that does to women and babies,” she continued. Blackburn said the committee is asking procurement groups for accounting and banking records to determine whether these sales are illegal. Under the law, human tissue cannot be sold, but groups are allowed to charge for the costs to procure and process the tissue, she said.
Recently, Blackburn’s committee also uncovered evidence that abortion clinics may have shared their patients’ private health information in violation of HIPPA, LifeNews reported. In addition, women appear to have been misled on consent forms to procure their aborted babies’ body parts. “This betrayal of a young woman’s trust should disgust us all,” Blackburn said while announcing the new evidence. “It takes financial advantage, obtains consent through coercion, and deceives the woman, all in violation of federal privacy laws.” Blackburn is calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the potential violations.
In a letter to HHS, she wrote:
The Panel’s investigation uncovered a series of business contracts between StemExpress, a tissue procurement business, and several abortion clinics. These contracts included provisions for the payment of fees by StemExpress to the abortion clinic for fetal tissue and maternal blood. StemExpress then resold the fetal tissue and blood to researchers.
… In particular the Panel’s investigation has uncovered information indicating that StemExpress and Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (“PPMM”), Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific (”PPSP”) and Family Planning Specialists Medical Group (“FPS”) … committed systematic violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPPA”) privacy rule from about 2010 to 2015. These violations occurred when the abortion clinics disclosed patients’ individually identifiable health information to StemExpress to facilitate the TPB’S efforts to procure human fetal tissue for resale. This complaint is against each of these entities, and we request a swift and full investigation by the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services.
According to the panel, StemExpress put tissue procurement technicians inside abortion clinics to work harvesting aborted babies’ body parts. These procurement technicians received patients’ private medical records and were permitted to interview patients, according to the letter. Blackburn said there is no “medically valid reason” why the procurement technicians should have been allowed to see patients’ private medical files. In April, she cited evidence that women sitting in abortion clinic waiting rooms are lobbied to donate their aborted babies’ bodies. Her committee also heard testimony from a doctor connected to Planned Parenthood who said its consent forms for fetal tissue donation misled women.
The expose’ videos catching Planned Parenthood officials selling the body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation. Here is a list of all twelve:
Maybe it is. But I think of this in terms of their adding to the fig leaf for their evil. It provides another way of representing the issue, regardless of how immoral. “Oh, it’s only a business.”
Probably when Barry M. Goldwater, Richard M. Nixon, and John G. Tower were endorsing abortion, they had no idea it would become a big business. They probably thought that American women would be responsible.
Might have bought into the “safe legal and rare” schtick... but one immediate problem was that they didn’t see the pent up potential demand.
The dam might have burst anyhow of its own weakness not all that much later, however.
This is all tied up in one large interrelated area of family morality, sexual morality, and reproductive morality.
And this was suffering long before abortion became the new freedom du jour.
Death and plunder. It’s a win/win for progressives, socialists, marxists, eugenicists, totalitarians…and to have those plantation slaves still vote for you…it’s a WOOOHOOOO!
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