{"id":18352,"date":"2015-07-22T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T10:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=18352"},"modified":"2015-07-22T10:57:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T10:57:40","slug":"another-planned-parenthood-senior-executive-and-physician-haggles-over-aborted-fetus-body-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=18352","title":{"rendered":"Another Planned Parenthood Physician &#038; Senior Executive Haggles Over Aborted Fetus Body Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Second Planned Parenthood Senior Executive Haggles Over Baby Parts Prices, Changes Abortion Methods<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MjCs_gvImyw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>President of PPFA Medical Directors\u2019 Council Mary Gatter Doesn\u2019t Want to \u201cLowball\u201d Price, Suggests \u201cLess Crunchy\u201d Technique, Says She Wants a Lamborghini<\/i><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Contact:<\/b> David Daleiden, <a href=\"mailto:david@centerformedicalprogress.org\">david@centerformedicalprogress.org<\/a>, 949.734.0859<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, July 21\u2014A second undercover video shows Planned Parenthood Federation of America\u2019s Medical Directors\u2019 Council President, Dr. Mary Gatter, haggling over payments for intact fetal specimens and offering to use a \u201cless crunchy technique\u201d to get more intact body parts.<\/p>\n<p>It is similar to last week\u2019s viral video showing PPFA Senior Director of Medical Services Dr. Deborah Nucatola admitting to using partial-birth abortions to get intact parts and suggesting a price range of $30 to $100 per specimen.<\/p>\n<p>Gatter is a senior official within Planned Parenthood and is President of the Medical Directors\u2019 Council, the central committee of all Planned Parenthood affiliate medical directors.<\/p>\n<p>Actors posing as buyers ask Gatter, \u201c<b>What would you expect for intact [fetal] tissue?<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cWell, why don\u2019t you start by telling me what you\u2019re used to paying!\u201d<\/b> Gatter replies.<\/p>\n<p>Gatter continues: <b>\u201cYou know, in negotiations whoever throws out the figure first is at a loss, right?\u201d<\/b> She explains, \u201c<b>I just don\u2019t want to lowball<\/b>,\u201d before suggesting, \u201c<b>$75 a specimen<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gatter twice recites Planned Parenthood messaging on fetal tissue collection, \u201cWe\u2019re not in it for the money,\u201d and \u201cThe money is not the important thing,\u201d but she immediately qualifies each statement with, respectively, \u201c<b>But what were you thinking of?<\/b>\u201d and, \u201c<b>But it has to be big enough that it\u2019s worthwhile for me.<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gatter also admits that in prior fetal tissue deals, Planned Parenthood received payment in spite of incurring no cost: \u201c<b>It was logistically very easy for us, we didn\u2019t have to do anything. So there was compensation for this.<\/b>\u201d She accepts a higher price of $100 per specimen understanding that it will be only for high-quality fetal organs: \u201c<b>Now, this is for tissue that you actually take, not just tissue that someone volunteers and you can\u2019t find anything, right?<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the lunch\u2019s end, Gatter suggests $100 per specimen is not enough and concludes, \u201c<b>Let me just figure out what others are getting, and if this is in the ballpark, then it\u2019s fine, if it\u2019s still low, then we can bump it up. I want a Lamborghini.<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2).<\/p>\n<p>Gatter also suggests modifying the abortion procedure to get more intact fetuses: \u201c<b>I wouldn\u2019t object to asking Ian, who\u2019s our surgeon who does the cases, to use an IPAS [manual vacuum aspirator] at that gestational age in order to increase the odds that he\u2019s going to get an intact specimen.<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gatter seems aware this violates rules governing tissue collection, but disregards them: \u201c<b>To me, that\u2019s kind of a specious little argument.<\/b>\u201d Federal law requires that no alteration in the timing or method of abortion be done for the purposes of fetal tissue collection (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).<\/p>\n<p>The video, like last week\u2019s featuring Dr. Nucatola, was produced by<i> The Center for Medical Progress<\/i> and is part of CMP\u2019s nearly 3-year-long investigative journalism study, \u201cHuman Capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CMP\u2019s Project Lead David Daleiden notes, \u201cPlanned Parenthood\u2019s top leadership admits they harvest aborted baby parts and receive payments for this. Planned Parenthood\u2019s only denial is that they make money off of baby parts, but that is a desperate lie that becomes more and more untenable as CMP reveals Planned Parenthood\u2019s business operations and statements that prove otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seven State Governments have opened investigations into Planned Parenthood\u2019s sale of aborted fetal body parts, as have three Congressional Committees. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has called PPFA\u2019s Senior Director of Medical Services to testify this month about the organization\u2019s fetal tissue harvesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Planned Parenthood Senior Executive Haggles Over Baby Parts Prices, Changes Abortion Methods President of PPFA Medical Directors\u2019 Council Mary Gatter Doesn\u2019t Want to \u201cLowball\u201d Price, Suggests \u201cLess Crunchy\u201d Technique, Says She Wants a Lamborghini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}