Posted on 08/19/2015 7:06:57 AM PDT by NYer
ALAMEDA, CA, August 19, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – A former procurement technician who helped harvest organs at Planned Parenthood said she saw a baby boy's heart beating outside his body before the child's body parts were extracted.
Holly O'Donnell, a former procurement technician at StemExpress, said at an abortion facility in Alameda, California, a co-worker named Jessica brought over the most fully developed baby she had ever seen and said, “I want you to see something kind of cool.”
There she saw the “closest thing to a [fully-developed] baby I've seen.”
“It had a face. It wasn't completely torn up,” she said. “Its nose was very pronounced.”
“She has one of her instruments, and she taps the heart, and it starts beating.”
“I'm looking at this fetus, and it's heart is beating,” O'Donnell said in astonishment.
“I don't know if that constitutes it's technically dead, or it's alive,” she continued.
Dr. Ben Van Handel, the vice president of Novogenix Laboratories, says on the video “there are times when, after the [abortion] procedure is done, that the heart is still beating.”
O'Donnell said that, after showing her the child's beating heart, Jessica told her, “This is a really good fetus, and it looks like we can procure a lot from it.”
She then asked O'Donnell to remove the baby's brain with scissors through the baby's face.
“I can't even describe what that feels like,” O'Donnell said. “That was the moment I knew I couldn't work for the company anymore...even if it was the cure for some disease.”
The video – the seventh released by the Center for Medical Progress – underscored revelations made in previous videos that Planned Parenthood officials alter the method of abortions they perform - not out of medical necessity for the mother - but in order to obtain a baby's body intact.
Intact fetal cadavers fetch higher fees, as they maximize the amount of organs and fetal tissue available for experimentation by biotech companies.
Perrin Larton, the procurement manager at Advanced Bioscience Resources, says, "I literally have had women come in and go in the OR [operating room] and they're back out in three minutes."
The doctor told her, "The fetus was already in the vaginal canal whenever we put her in the stirrups. It just fell out."
The first video, which was released just over a month ago, caught Planned Parnethood's senior director of medical services Dr. Deborah Nucatola saying that abortionists will often “change the presentation” of the baby to maximize the number of organs they can preserve intact.
Discussing the harvesting and sale of fetal organs over a business lunch of salad and red wine, Nucatola said she would look at the organs the biotech company wanted and decide during the abortion, “I’m not gonna crush that part. I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”
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She then described a procedure identical to a partial birth abortion, which has been a federal felony since 2003.
In the fifth undercover video Melissa Farrell, the director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, admitted "we deviate from our standard" protocol so that "we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers."
“Sometimes they come out really intact,” a tech at the Houston facility told CMP investigators.
Farrell added that she found dissecting aborted babies "sickening on some level, but it’s fun."
O'Donnell had a different reaction.
Near the end of the new, 10-and-a-half-minute-long video, O'Donnell said after an abortion, she would often hold the child's body in her hands and ponder what the child's future may have been.
“This could be the next president,” she said. “I wonder at age three if she would like to color.”
Lost in thoughts of the unborn child's potential, she said, “I feel like it's a waste of life, and it's sad that so many people view it as a mistake.”
The videos have provoked a public backlash and spurred Republican leaders at both the state and national level to investigate and defund Planned Parenthood, the nation's leading provider of abortion.
To sign the petition to defund Planned Parenthood, click here.
Murderers.
Yes
I didn’t elect him and he doesn’t speak for me.
We did the same. Dumped any friends who were liberals. We were friends of a couple who would boo the Right To Life marchers in the 4th of July parade. They’d yell stuff at them like “You don’t care about them after they are born you hypocrites!” We just couldn’t be around them any longer.
They both were Catholics and taught Sunday school. Go figure.
I would sooner die of cancer or have one of my loved ones die of cancer than to see a treatment from a bio-tech company as a result of this savage and horrible practice. I firmly believe that no cure for any disease or drug can ever or would ever come as a result of mutilating or murdering aborted babies. There is a reason why embryonic stem cells have never yielded any promise. You cannot destroy life to attempt to “save” another. It is sick and evil. And we wonder how Nazi Germany ever came to fruition. Today’s leftists would be all for Mengele and his evil doings.
I wonder: does the LGBT community have a pro-life branch? They want their "rights" - do they stand up for the rights of the unborn as well?
I am beyond speechless.
God will deal with all of this in due time, meanwhile we must persevere.
If anything is “for the children,” stopping this mindless slaughter is at the top of the list.
You bring a valid point to the table.
What are we doing about this? Forget politicians or voting in the right person, what in God’s name are we doing about this!?
Prayers.
I join in your prayer.
Thank you. Our country desperately needs prayers. My understanding is that there are still 5 more videos to come, 12 in all. Each one has gotten worse. I was pretty grossed out on the first one, but by number three I could no longer watch them in their entirety. I cry and beg and plead to end abortion with each new video. I cannot fathom the heartless countless people who attempt to stick up for PP, some are my own family members!! I have one cousin in particular who is vociferous in her strident support for them. I weep and pray for her! I pray for them all, that the scales fall from their eyes!
There are plenty of clinics that provide health care to poor women (and men and children). Defunding Planned Parenthood would free up even more money to go to healthcare for poor people.
How many PAP screenings and breast exams could the money wasted on a single abortion pay for?
Prayers for our Blessed Savior to touch the hearts of all who support this barbarity.
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