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OTTAWA, August 25, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Instead of condemning the documented and illegal harvesting and selling of body parts from babies aborted at Planned Parenthood centers in the U.S., a Canadian-based Planned Parenthood is using the scandal to raise money for its operations. “Planned Parenthood Ottawa is suffering,” the organization’s president Lauren Dobson-Hughes posted on its Facebook page on the weekend. “You’ve heard of the recent attacks on women’s healthcare in the States, but we’re feeling the impact too.” Pro-life Ottawa lobbyist Johanne Brownrigg criticized the organization for running a “brazen fundraising campaign targeting the low information citizen” in the...

In the course of each year, the pro-life community can lose many activists for life. But when a pro-life hero spends his final moments on earth standing up for unborn babies, it is worth mentioning. This was the case of Bob Adis, who passed away shortly after standing up for unborn babies outside Planned Parenthood during the weekend’s national protest. The 73-year-old, fondly referred to as “Poppy,” and his wife Joan, joined members of Harvest Bible Church in exposing Planned Parenthood’s baby parts operation in Livonia, Michigan, on Saturday morning. Shortly after the group assembled on the public sidewalk, pro-life...

As the head of the biotech company that buys aborted babies and aborted baby body parts from Planned Parenthood, StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer has been the subject of considerably national scrutiny.A new video released today shows Dyer laughing about how StemExpress purchases fully intact aborted babies from Planned Parenthood. She laughs about how shippers of the aborted babies would give a warning to lab workers to expect such a baby.The new video is approximately 10 minutes in language, but a full-length version exists and the conservative Washington Free Beacon has obtained a copy of it. One of the things it...

In the massive national firestorm of controversy over the shocking sales of aborted babies and their body parts from Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics, most f the focus has been paid to either the abortion giant or StemExpress, one of the biotech firms that purchase the aborted babies. Less attention has been paid to the researchers who are using the body parts of aborted babies in their research. Viewers of the ghastly videos often wonder how Planned Parenthood and StemExpress can team up to aborted babies, pick apart their remains and ship them off for research without any moral...

The Planned Parenthood abortion business has filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana after Governor Bobby Jindal made the decision to yank its taxpayer funding. Jindal cut Planned Parenthood’s funding after a national scandal involving the abortion company selling the body parts of aborted babies. When Louisiana cut Planned Parenthood fnuding Jindal’s office said, “Governor Jindal and DHH decided to give the required 30-day notice to terminate the Planned Parenthood Medicaid provider contract because Planned Parenthood does not represent the values of the State of Louisiana in regards to respecting human life. Pending the ongoing investigation, DHH reserves the...

When the temporary restraining order against StemExpress was lifted last Friday, Center for Medical Progress wasted no time issuing a press release and preview video of what the fetal parts buyers were trying to hide. The full video was promised as forthcoming, but preview quotations CMP released promised trouble for Planned Parenthood. Cate Dyer, the head of StemExpress, indicates that some abortion mills are unsanitary, bacteria-filled wastelands. CMP’s release of key quotations includes this disturbing exchange between Dyer and the buyer: SE: We’ll do testing on our side, so we’ll be able to see, you know. And sometimes we’ll find...

Sen. Ted Cruz will hold a telephone town hall with church leaders Tuesday to discuss his plan for defunding Planned Parenthood. "Recently, all of us have seen the videos of the behind-the-scenes dealings at the Planned Parenthood facilities, activities that all of us find horribly offensive," Cruz said in a video invitation to the national conference call. "But even more appalling is that we as taxpayers are funding these activities." Cruz has been an outspoken critic of Planned Parenthood subsidies since a series of undercover videos shed light on the organization's policy of donating fetal tissue to researchers. "Only our...

FULL TITLE: BREAKING: StemExpress CEO: We ship ‘a lot’ of ‘intact’ aborted babies’ bodies, lab techs sometimes ‘freak out’ LOS ANGELES, August 25, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Planned Parenthood provides "a lot" of "intact" aborted babies' bodies to biological researchers for harvesting and experimentation, the CEO of StemExpress confirmed in a new undercover video released this morning. In a business luncheon recorded on May 22, StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer also says she believes that the sale of aborted babies' body parts has been "profitable" for the abortion industry which, if true, would indicate Planned Parenthood has committed a federal felony. Dyer...

Former Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis was undoubtedly the focal point in the battle against the state’s effort to ban abortions five months after conception. But if she wants to talk about “flagrant denial of reality,” let’s start there. Davis really believed she could parlay her 11-hour filibuster into a seat in the governor’s mansion. That delusion was helped along by a fawning profile in Vogue magazine and celebrity endorsements. Davis is back in the news today, penning an opinion piece in the Texas Star-Telegram in defense of Planned Parenthood against all of the recent peaceful protests (i.e., “attacks”) against...

An eighth video released this morning by Center for Medical Progress reveals even more grisly details about the trade of aborted baby parts by abortion giant Planned Parenthood and its former California partner, StemExpress. The video details the inner workings of the California-based tissue procurement company — a middleman agency that sells baby parts to research institutions —and its business relationship with America’s largest abortion chain. In undercover footage, StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer is caught on camera discussing its fetal parts business with a CMP investigator, even joking about how the company ships the whole heads of aborted babies to...

Just can't get enough livers; "rampant" bacteria in clinics; clinics enjoying profits Today, The Center for Medical Progress released the 8th in its series of investigative videos exposing the baby parts trafficking industry, spearheaded by the United States’ largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. CMP’s new video features a May 22, 2015, restaurant meeting held between its investigators posing as fetal procurement agents and representatives from StemExpress, a fetal procurement company. After CMP began releasing videos of its undercover investigation in mid-July, SE officials soon realized they had been part of the sting and sued on July 31 to block release...

Last Friday, the pro-life group behind the shocking expose’ videos of Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies and their body parts released a preview of its 8th video in the series. Now the full video has been released (SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH). While the videos have focused on the Planned Parenthood abortion business, the biotech firm StemExpress, which buys and resells aborted baby body parts from the abortion giant, has filed a lawsuit seeking to block some information the Center for Medical Progress obtained in its three year undercover operation. Just a short time after a judge issued a ruling that...

In Iowa, 41 House and Senate Republican have called on Attorney General Tom Miller to investigate the activities of abortion facilities in the state. The pro-life lawmakers said their request comes in response to eight undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s organ harvesting business. Their hope is that Miller will determine “whether any relevant laws were broken by abortion providers in the state.” In a letter to Miller, the lawmakers said, “As it is the responsibility of the Department of Justice to ensure abortion providers in the State of Iowa are following applicable laws, we respectfully urge you to investigate current...

In 2008, scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital started using brains of aborted babies for research. The Boston Globe reports that Harvard neuroscientist, Emi Takahashi, examines fetal brain tissue in hopes to better understand neurological disorders such as epilepsy, autism and schizophrenia. Although Takahashi is aware of the current controversy regarding fetal “tissue” research and Planned Parenthood, she says the issue is not about morality or abortion; instead, it’s about science. She explained, “It’s purely a scientific issue, not a moral one.” In July, Takahashi received a call from an officer at the National Institutes of Health inquiring about her study...

After a shocking video was released on Friday showing her admitting that the Planned Parenthood abortion business sells it fully intact aborted babies for research, the head of StemExpress is now denying that and claiming her comments were misconstrued. Just a short time after a judge issued a ruling that the biotech firm StemExpress can’t block the Center for Medical Progress from releasing another video that shows what it does with aborted babies Planned Parenthood sells to it, the pro-life group put up a preview of the 8th video in its series showing the scandal of Planned Parenthood selling aborted...

FULL TITLE:Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Buyer StemExpress Wants “Another 50 Livers/Week,” Financial Benefits for Abortion Clinics LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25–The eighth video in the ongoing controversy over Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted fetal body parts shows the CEO of StemExpress, LLC, a major buyer of fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood, admitting the company gets “a lot” of intact fetuses, suggesting “another 50 livers a week” would not be enough, and agreeing abortion clinics should profit from the sale: http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2015/08/planned-parenthood-baby-parts-buyer-stemexpress-wants-another-50-liversweek-financial-benefits-for-abortion-clinics/ StemExpress is a for-profit biotech supply company that has been partnered with Planned Parenthood clinics across the country to purchase human...

WHAT: Protest PP’s harvesting and selling of aborted baby parts WHERE: Over 300 Planned Parenthood facilities across America WHEN: August 22, 2015 from 9:00am-11:00am

FULL TITLE: Father Pavone’s Abolishing Abortion hits bookshelves today – Pro-life manifesto calls upon the Church and State to protect unborn children Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and a long-time pro-life activist, has long said he’s not just fighting abortion, he’s working to end it. His new book, Abolishing Abortion: How You Can Play a Part in Ending the Greatest Evil of Our Day (Thomas Nelson, HarperCollins Christian Publishing), released today, outlines a strategy to end abortion in the United States. In the book, Father Pavone explores biblical, moral, historical, and legal reasons Christians belong in...

With Planned Parenthood’s back against the wall following the advent of more videos exposing the selling of baby parts, their apologists are growing desperate in their attempts to prevent its defunding. Case in point is Michael Specter, a staff writer at The New Yorker and former New York Times and Washington Post reporter, who spreads the usual counterintuitive spin that defunding Planned Parenthood would actually increase abortions. The headline was “Planned Parenthood Means Fewer Abortions.” A few years ago, Specter wrote a book called Denialism about the dangers of science denial. But he’s in a case of Planned Parenthood denial....

In 2013, Planned Parenthood’s Chicago affiliate was sued when a 24-year-old woman named Tonya Reaves died from a second trimester abortion. After the tragedy, Dorsey Johns, Reaves’ mother, told a Chicago television station that Planned Parenthood staff “carelessly performed” the elective abortion and failed to properly monitor and assess her daughter’s condition after the procedure. The abortionist who performed the procedure on Reaves, Mandy Gittler (shown above), is currently employed at a Planned Parenthood facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan. However, Gittler has not obtained proper licensing in Michigan and she’s had several complaints filed against her in the last two years....