Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has had her hands full since the Center for Medical Progress began releasing its undercover videos. Posted on 07/23/2015 6:06:37 PM PDT by Diago
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has had her hands full since the Center for Medical Progress began releasing its undercover videos. COLUMBUS, Ohio — It may not be time to write about this, because there may be more damning video to come from the Center for Medical Progress' masterful ambushes of Planned Parenthood officials.
But it's also the perfect time to write about this. I'm sitting in a hospital waiting room, waiting for my daughter to deliver my second grandchild, and babies are just kind of where my calvarium is at right now.
Calvarium? That's abortion clinic lingo for "head." As in the head of an unborn child. Or, to be more specific, a partially born child — who is being dismembered more carefully than usual, so once the deed is done, whatever "tissue" is in demand will be of the greatest utility to the "researcher." That's abortion clinic lingo for "buyer."
"Tissue" is abortion clinic lingo for "parts of a human child" — as in, a person just like the rest of us, but defenseless, dehumanized, deprived of dignity and, ultimately, killed. But one thing "tissue" does not mean at Planned Parenthood is "profit center." No, no. Never that. Tearing apart a child and parceling out his or her body is just a break-even deal, because making money from the sale of human parts is illegal.
As Deborah Nucatola, senior director of medical services for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, explains in a Center for Medical Progress video released July 14: "I think for [Planned Parenthood] affiliates, at the end of the day, they're a nonprofit, they just don't want to — they want to break even. And if they can do a little better than break even, and do so in a way that seems reasonable, they're happy to do that."
"Seems reasonable" is abortion clinic lingo for "we don't get caught."
In any transaction not involving an abortion clinic, delivering goods like "tissue" or services like the "extraction of tissue" in exchange for money would be called a "sale." But as we've seen, abortion providers have their own language — a mixture of medical jargon and ethics-defying euphemisms designed to bring some respectability to serial murder.
Even if Planned Parenthood successfully spins what it's doing with human body parts, what Nucatola says about "harvesting" techniques is a problem: Partial-birth abortion is illegal, but it's awfully hard to see any difference between a partial-birth abortion and the procedure Nucatola describes in the video for ensuring the "tissue" is collected intact:
"So if you do it starting from the breech presentation, there's dilation that happens as the case goes on, and often, the last, you can evacuate an intact calvarium at the end."
A lot goes on before "the end," and an abortionist who knows a customer is waiting for baby parts has to kill carefully. Mangle the "tissue" in the wrong place and it won't bring the full price.
In a second sting video, Mary Gatter, medical director for some Planned Parenthood clinics in Southern California, talks about how she'd be willing to lie to patients — the ones that walk out alive after treatment — about the abortion methods to be used: "... then we're kind of violating the protocol that says to the patient, 'We're not doing anything different in our care of you.' Now to me, that's kind of a specious little argument."
Well, sure it is. These are people for whom life and humanity themselves are specious little concepts.
Planned Parenthood complains that the videos were edited. So go read the whole transcript of each. You'll find them online, right where the Center for Medical Progress put them.
Everybody from PolitiFact to Media Matters has been trying desperately to explain away Planned Parenthood staffers' banal little horrors expressed over lunch, but these videos are likely to leave a mark.
The focus of Planned Parenthood's defenders seems to be that the clinics aren't really making money on the "donation" of "tissue." That approach glosses over the monstrous thing that happens at the front end of the transaction — the killing of a human being — so we can get right to haggling over what price point makes the back end of the transaction distasteful.
Fine. Just for a moment, let's argue on the term Planned Parenthood's defenders prefer — the bottom line: Every abortion clinic is a business. The more money it makes, the better for its owners and employees. If it can't make expenses, it ceases to exist. If it can't pay its "doctors" — that's abortion clinic lingo for "hired killers" — they'll go somewhere else, where they might even use their talents for something worthwhile.
And as for the argument that the "tissue" "donated" to researchers (in exchange for money) furthers medical research, well, what if it does? Present 100 people facing certain deterioration and death from Alzheimer's or Parkinson's with this proposition: We can cure you if we kill this baby. My guess is they'll all walk away from that deal.
Nucatola's conscience isn't much on display in the video, but it gets a little salve at one point, when she rationalizes the sale of slain babies' body parts this way: "Everybody just sees this as a way to add another layer of good on top of what they're already doing."
But not everybody does. A lot of people see it for the barbarity that it is.
Postscript: My daughter gave birth to a girl — a tiny, female human individual, which is what she has been since the moment of her conception. She is not, and never was, just "tissue."
O'Brien is The Plain Dealer's deputy editorial page editor.
Melissa Quinn / July 21, 2015
In the wake of two videos allegedly showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted fetal body parts, Republicans in Congress are working to ensure that Planned Parenthood is stripped of its federal funding.
However, it’s not only the government that fills Planned Parenthood’s coffers. According to 2nd Vote, a website and app that tracks the flow of money from consumers to political causes, more than 25 percent of Planned Parenthood’s $1.3-billion annual revenue comes from private donations, which includes corporate contributions.
>>> UPDATE: Planned Parenthood Pulls Names of Corporate Donors After Coca-Cola, Ford and Xerox Object
2nd Vote researched the corporations and organizations to find which supported Planned Parenthood and found that more than three dozen donated to the group. Some companies donated directly, while others matched employee gifts.
Thirty-nine corporations and organizations directly contribute to the group.
Planned Parenthood has come under heavy fire following the release of videos from the Center for Medical Progress.
The first video, released last week, showed Planned Parenthood senior executive Dr. Deborah Nucatola meeting with actors portraying buyers from a “human biologics company.” The “buyers” discussed the sale of fetal body parts with Nucatola over lunch.
In the second video, released today, Dr. Mary Gatter, president of Planned Parenthood’s medical directors council, is seen negotiating the price of aborted fetal body parts.
Here are the 38 companies that have directly funded Planned Parenthood.
This story originally listed 41 companies; following publication, three contacted The Daily Signal to say Planned Parenthood’s list was inaccurate. Click here for our latest coverage.
Xerox says it was was erroneously listed on Planned Parenthood’s website as having been a donor. “We have communicated with Planned Parenthood. They have removed Xerox from this list of companies that match gifts to the organization. It was not correct,” a Xerox representative told The Daily Signal.
A Ford Motor Co. representative contacted The Daily Signal claiming they had been erroneously listed on Planned Parenthood’s website, and have contacted Planned Parenthood to be removed.
Coca-Cola also asked Planned Parenthood to remove it from the website. “The Coca-Cola Company does not contribute to Planned Parenthood,” a representative told The Daily Signal. “We do not match employee contributions to Planned Parenthood.”
Thank you! I’m a little surprised not to see Chase Bank and Whole Foods. However, since we frequent both, I’m pleased they are not on this list.
I’ll circulate these names on Twitter... thanks again.
I hadn't seen that quote before.
I don't know how to respond to this. "Add another layer of good." Do you think they need their brains sucked out?
I’m hoping:
1) that someone is keeping Pope Francis well briefed on the demonic Planned Parenthood revelations.
2) that David Daleiden saves the best tape and releases it couple days before Pope Francis visits.
Might make it tough for him to focus on “climate change”/
I’m with you! I’ve been praying for David Daleiden. What a courageous man.
And, yes, it would be good if the best tape is released right before Pope Francis visits; I hadn’t even thought of that.
“And as for the argument that the “tissue” “donated” to researchers (in exchange for money) furthers medical research, well, what if it does? Present 100 people facing certain deterioration and death from Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s with this proposition: We can cure you if we kill this baby. My guess is they’ll all walk away from that deal.”
Superman didn’t walk away. Our society has become ghoulish as individuals see themselves as the center of the universe.
Catholic caller wants Pope to speak out on Planned Parenthood
Thank you; I read the conversation with Rush; it sure would be good if the pope addressed this, but ...
I ran into a site by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics today; very well put together. Here’s the link (have you seen it?): http://www.klannedparenthood.com/
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