NEW VIDEO: PLANNED PARENTHOOD CHOOSES ‘PER ITEM’ BODY-PARTS PRICING
‘Because we can see how much we can get out of it’
Bob Unruh
WND.com
A third video in an undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts-for-sale program shows an executive at the organization’s Denver office choosing “per item” pricing, because it better reveals how much money the group can make.
“I think the ‘per item’ thing works a little better just because we can see how much we can get out of it,” says Savita Ginde, the medical director for Planned Parenthood of the Rockies.
The investigation was carried out by the Center for Medical Progress which previously released undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives talking about selling baby parts, including one who says, “I want a Lamborghini.”
The new video captures Ginde taking with an investigator posing as a buyer of baby parts.
“So would you call that intact?” she asks.
The buyer: “These are intact kidneys. Yes, if somebody needed to …”
Ginde broke in: “Because If I looked at that, I’d be like that’s good to go.”
The buyer notes the number of samples “we could have taken” and suggests a flat fee for parts.
But Ginde rejects that.
See it here:
CMP explained the video was the first episode of a new documentary, which includes an interview with Holly O’Donnell, a licensed phlebotomist.
She accepted a job with a fetal tissue company, StemExpress, in 2012 and then realized what the work was all about.
“I thought I was going to be just drawing blood, not procuring tissue from aborted fetuses,” she said.
She worked for six months there. Her job was to identify pregnant women at Planned Parenthood who met criteria for fetal tissue orders and to harvest the fetal body parts after their abortions.
She talked openly about the money angle.
“For whatever we could procure, [Planned Parenthood] would get a certain percentage. The main nurse was always trying to make sure we got our specimens. No one else really cared, but the main nurse did because she knew that Planned Parenthood was getting compensated,” she said.
She almost didn’t succeed in the work. She said that on her first day on the job she was being trained to identify the various body parts.
“My trainer comes over and she puts on gloves. And she grabs some tweezers and and she’s picking the parts away from the vaginal tissue. I’ve never had anxiety before this at all, so I’m looking and I don’t know what’s going on. I had no idea this was what was going to be happening, especially my first day. She has tweezers and she’s like, OK, this is the head, this is the arm, this is the leg, and she goes ‘come over, can you show me some of the parts I just showed you?'”
She continued: “I didn’t want to lose this job … and the moment I took the tweezers, I put them in the dish. I remember grabbing a leg, and I said, this is a leg, and the moment I picked it up, I could just feel like death and pain. Like I’ve never felt that before. Like shoot up through my body.”
She recalls passing out and waking up later. One nurse noted she was a new employee and told her it happened to others.
“Some of us don’t ever get over it,” the nurse told her.
The video explains that under federal law, the sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000.
It video also includes Katherine Sheehan, medical director emerita of Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest in San Diego, describing her affiliate’s long-time relationship with Advanced Bioscience Resources, a “middleman company that has been providing aborted fetal organs since 1989.”
‘Horrifying reality’
“Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby parts is an offensive and horrifying reality that is widespread enough for many people to be available to give first-person testimony about it,” said CMP founder David Daleiden.
“CMP’s investigative journalism work will continue to surface more compelling eyewitness accounts and primary source evidence of Planned Parenthood’s trafficking and selling baby parts for profit. There should be an immediate moratorium on Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding while Congress and the states determine the full extent of the organization’s lawbreaking,” he said.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue and a CMP board member, said there is “no doubt, based on evidence in this video, that Planned Parenthood financially profits from the illegal sale of aborted baby body parts.”
“When Planned Parenthood’s head, Cecile Richards, denies this, she is brazenly attempting to deceive the American people,” he said.
“We need to immediately defund Planned Parenthood and hold them criminally accountable for their horrific conduct that clearly runs afoul of the law and violates every sense of human decency.”
‘Intact’ parts
WND reported on the two previous CMP videos.
Earlier, CMP released a video of Planned Parenthood Medical Director Deborah Nucatola cavalierly discussing the sale of livers and other fetal organs obtained from altering late-second trimester abortion procedures. Her remarks sparked outrage, even from some abortion supporters, that prompted Congress and several governors to begin investigating.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has written to Planned Planned demanding that it turn over records for a congressional investigation of the abortion giant’s activities. Several governors have launched their own investigations.
An old story
WND also has reported that as horrific as the videos appear, they should surprise no one, since such practices have been documented for nearly two decades already.
One price list uncovered by a pro-life organization dated June 1998 points out that the price per specimen from a second trimester abortion is $90 fresh and $130 frozen.
Mark Crutcher, whose Life Dynamics organization was a ground-breaker in investigating the abortion behemoth that gets some $500 million annually from U.S. taxpayers, worked on that investigation.
His group reported in February 2000 how the baby parts market works: “A baby parts ‘wholesaler’ enters into a financial agreement with an abortion clinic in which the wholesaler pays a monthly ‘site fee’ to the clinic. For this payment, the wholesaler is allowed to place a retrieval agent inside the clinic where he or she is given access to the corpses of children killed there and a workspace to harvest their parts.”
He continued: “The buyer – usually a researcher working for a medical school, pharmaceutical company, bio-tech company or government agency – supplies the wholesaler with a list of the baby parts wanted. … when such orders are received … they are faxed to the retrieval agent at the clinic who harvests the requested parts and ships them to the buyer.”
The documentation was provided at that time to Life Dynamics by a worker who left Comprehensive Health for Women, a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Overland Park, Kansas.
Among the documents was a “Fee-for-Services” Schedule A, effective June 1998, which outlined a charge of $220 per specimen for first-trimester aspiration abortions and $260 if the baby parts were frozen.
Crutcher’s report, citing Planned Parenthood’s own paperwork, found one agent sold during February 1996 alone 47 livers, 11 liver fragments, seven brains, 21 eyes, eight thymuses, 23 legs, 14 pancreases, 14 lungs, six arms and one kidney-adrenal gland.
He also sold three orders of blood from the unborn child. The retrieval agent “harvested all of the parts,” the report said, explaining that “in order for the blood of an aborted child to be sold, the dead baby had to be brought to him intact.”
The “specimens,” the report said, would have generated up to about $25,000 in revenue for one month from one retrieval agent at one Planned Parenthood business.
Crutcher reported the tissue logs reveal that one baby is often chopped up and sold to many buyers.
For example, babies taken from donors 113968 and 114189 were both killed late in their second trimester and cut into nine pieces. By applying the price list, buyers would have been invoiced between $3,510 and $5,070 for these parts.
Another group to document the behavior of Planned Parenthood has been Live Action, which released video after video of Planned Parenthood operatives covering up the sexual abuse of minors, providing false medical counsel, trying to manipulate abortion patients, aiding people trafficking in child sex and more.
Live Action President Lila Rose said the latest CMP video “further illustrates the barbaric reality of business at Planned Parenthood – that after selling an abortion, Planned Parenthood works to improve their bottom line by harvesting the body parts of the child they have just killed.”
“What has our nation come to that we allow the brutality of abortion upon our children, and then sell their broken bodies for profit, all the while, funding the perpetrator?”
She added: “Human rights are bipartisan – where is the outcry from presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and others over sale of the parts of children? Silence in the face of such atrocity is complicity.”
Live Action reported a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minneapolis told a teen to let her partner abuse her with “rope burns” and “markings.”
“Anything” the counselor said, “is normal as long as it’s consensual.”