Poll: After Seeing Videos of Planned Parenthood Selling Aborted Babies, Americans Say De-Fund It

A new national poll shows that the more Americans are familiar with the shocking videos showing the Planned Parenthood abortion business selling aborted babies and their body parts, the more likely they are to support de-funding the abortion company.

The results of the poll come on the same day the organization that has released six videos exposing the scandal of Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies and their body parts released a new undercover video that catches the nation’s biggest abortion business harvesting the brain of an aborted baby who was still alive.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found most Americans support taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, but only for the non-abortion services and not when they are familiar with the shocking videos in the month-long expose’ of the abortion giant.

Seventy-three percent of respondents said they supported federal funding for an unnamed group to provide women’s health exams, 69 percent backed federal dollars for prenatal services, and 59 percent were in favor of it for contraception. Both Democrats and Republicans polled supported federal funding for the services.

When the question was asked a different way, more participants said they backed federal dollars for Planned Parenthood specifically to provide those services.

Overall, 54 percent supported federal funding of Planned Parenthood, and 26 percent opposed it.

After the videos were described to poll respondents, 39 percent said Planned Parenthood should not receive government funding and 34 percent said federal dollars should continue.

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood’s reputation has taken a nosedive following the shocking videos:

The non-profit’s image has taken a hit, the poll found, after an anti-abortion group earlier this year began releasing videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials negotiating prices for aborted fetal tissue.

But 44 percent of respondents who saw the videos said they now have a more negative view of Planned Parenthood, compared with 34 percent who said their views were unchanged.

David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress said the videos changed Americans’ perception of the health organization.

“The poll shows the more the American people learn about Planned Parenthood’s barbaric late-term abortion body parts business, the less they want to subsidize it with their taxpayer dollars,” Daleiden said in a statement.

The new video features Holly O’Donnell, a licensed phlebotomist who unsuspectingly took a job as a “procurement technician” at the fetal tissue company and biotech start-up StemExpress in late 2012. That’s the company that acts as a middleman and purchases the body parts of aborted babies from Planned Parenthood to sell to research universities and other places. StemExpress was partnered with Planned Parenthood up until last week, when it quietly announced it ended its relationship with the abortion corporation.

The new video includes O’Donnell’s eyewitness narrative of the daily practice of fetal body parts harvesting in Planned Parenthood abortion clinics. She tells the harrowing story of harvesting an intact brain from a late-term male unborn baby whose heart was still beating after the abortion.

O’Donnell describes the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs from a nearly intact late-term baby aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose, California.

“‘I want to see something kind of cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think.”

The fifth video in the shocking undercover series best illustrates how the Planned Parenthood abortion company is selling “fully intact” aborted babies.

The video, which follows Senate Democrats defeating a bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood, makes it appear the Planned Parenthood abortion business may be selling the “fully intact” bodies of unborn babies purposefully born alive and left to die.

Meanwhile, two committees in the House of Representatives have already launched investigations of Planned Parenthood. One committee is looking into whether or not the abortion business is breaking federal law by altering abortion procedures to better obtain aborted baby body parts for sale. Another committee, among other things, is investigating the Obama administration and whether there is any connection between it and the abortion giant.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was to know if the Obama administration, via the Department of Health and Human Services, provided any federal grants to Planned Parenthood that ultimately went to pay for the sales of aborted baby body parts and if they were used by Planned Parenthood to “support transactions involving fetal tissue.”

The expose’ videos catching Planned Parenthood officials selling the body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation.

As LifeNews reported, the first video of undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, describing how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted unborn children and admitting she uses partial-birth abortions to supply intact body parts.

In the second video, Planned Parenthood doctor Mary Gatter discusses the pricing of aborted baby body parts — telling the biotech company officials that the prices for such things as a baby’s liver, head or heart are negotiable. She also tells the officials that she could talk with the Planned Parenthood abortion practitioners to potentially alter the abortion procedure to kill the baby in a way that would best preserve those body parts after the unborn child is killed in the abortion.

So far, 12 states have responded to the Planned Parenthood videos and launched investigations into their abortion and organ harvesting business including South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Kansas, Missouri, Arizona, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, Texas and Louisiana. The district attorney in Houston Texas is also investigating after the Houston-based Planned Parenthood abortion facility was caught selling aborted babies.

Congress has expanded its investigation into the Planned Parenthood abortion business and five states have revoked taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood’s abortion business, including Utah, Arkansas, Alabama, New Hampshire and Louisiana and Iowa’s governor has ordered a review of Planned Parenthood funding.

The full, unedited videos have confirmed that revelations that some aborted baby remains sold by Planned Parenthood go to biotech companies for the purpose of creating “humanized” mice. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood has been exposed as having sold body parts from aborted babies for as much as 15 years.

The federal law that technically prohibits the sale of aborted babies and their body parts was written by a pro-abortion Congressman decades ago and essentially spells out a process by which sellers of aborted baby body parts can meet certain criteria that allows the sales to be legal. That’s why a Colorado congressman has introduced legislation to totally ban the sales of aborted baby body parts.

“Oh, but they do so much good for women’s health and abortion is only 3% of their services and the sky is purple!”

The woman who does my nails is sort of my gauge of a low information voter. She is intelligent, sees lots of people on a daily basis, has voted for the winner of the presidential election every election since she was old enough to vote. She’s about 50 now. But she is a big lib. She loves Obama and can’t wait to vote for Hillary because she’s a woman (Hillary that is). So I did ask her about the videos. She has not watched them and probably won’t. She had never heard of Gosnell. When asked about laws promoting safety in abortion mills she was in favor. She did think it was pretty horrible to sell body parts. I love her and she does a great pedicure so I didn’t make her watch the videos but I did get her thinking about the issue.

Yes, but-but-but Boehner and McConnell can't really defund PP, because the president will just veto it, dontcha see?

And they certainly don't want to shut the government down over this. /s

Please don’t confuse the issue - the knee jerk reaction to say some good things about planned parenthood is a LIBERAL REFLEX - the civics limitations aside...it is a LIBERAL REFLEX. For all DT has done to dent PC - the reflex to say “PP does some great work” is 100% pure political correctness on display.

Those reflexes are there. One day you’ll realize it.

If Boehner and McConnell can’t turn this into a winning issue, then their incompetence and / or cynical, inside-the-Beltway corruption is truly monumental.

9 posted on 08/20/2015 6:37:39 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")

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