{"id":94108,"date":"2018-02-07T07:58:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=94108"},"modified":"2018-02-07T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:03:43","slug":"planned-parenthood-kept-aborted-babies-alive-to-harvest-organs-ex-technician-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=94108","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood kept aborted babies alive to harvest organs, ex-technician says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pro-life group releases 7th undercover video<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94110\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/planned_2_c0-90-3511-2137_s885x516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94110\" class=\"wp-image-94110\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/planned_2_c0-90-3511-2137_s885x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/planned_2_c0-90-3511-2137_s885x516.jpg 885w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/planned_2_c0-90-3511-2137_s885x516-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/planned_2_c0-90-3511-2137_s885x516-768x448.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to a Planned Parenthood Clinic is seen here in Oklahoma City on July 24, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Cheryl Wetzstein &#8211; The Washington Times<\/p>\n<p>In an undercover video released Wednesday, a former technician for a tissue-harvesting company details how an aborted baby was kept alive so that its heart could be harvested at a California Planned Parenthood facility, raising more legal questions about the group\u2019s practices.<\/p>\n<p>Holly O\u2019Donnell, a former blood and tissue procurement technician for the biotech startup StemExpress, also said she was asked to harvest an intact brain from the late-term, male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion.<\/p>\n<p>A StemExpress supervisor \u201cgave me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of the face. And I can\u2019t even describe what that feels like,\u201d said Ms. O\u2019Donnell, who has been featured in earlier videos by the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life group that previously had released six undercover clips involving Planned Parenthood personnel and practices.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FzMAycMMXp8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David Daleiden, the video project leader, said the undercover footage and interviews show that fetuses are sometimes delivered \u201cintact and alive\u201d before their organs are harvested.<\/p>\n<p>The federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 says that when a child is born alive, including having a beating heart, he or she is a legal person and has a right to lifesaving medical care.<\/p>\n<p>California law also prohibits any kind of experimentation on a fetus with a discernible heartbeat, said the Center for Medical Progress, which is calling for the federal government to cease its $500 million a year support to Planned Parenthood and for it to be investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s video is especially gruesome, and it shows, once again, the barbarity of what takes place at Planned Parenthood clinics across the country,\u201d said Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania Republican and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health, one of several congressional panels investigating Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Wednesday that all the videos are \u201cdisturbing,\u201d and his committee\u2019s investigation will look into whether \u201cany federal funding supported transactions involving fetal tissue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTop-level employees of Planned Parenthood admit to changing their procedures to harvest intact bodies of unborn children for body-part trafficking,\u201d said Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Franks and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, also said Wednesday that they have written to 58 Planned Parenthood affiliates. They are seeking 10 years of data about all abortions, late-term abortions, \u201cborn-alive\u201d infants, fetal tissue collections and any modifications of abortion techniques to \u201cincrease the odds of preserving intact fetal tissue and organs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five states \u2014 Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Utah and New Hampshire \u2014 already have defunded Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>A request for comment from Planned Parenthood Federation of America about the new video was not immediately available, but the nonprofit organization has denounced earlier undercover videos as fraudulent and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese extremists show a total lack of compassion and dignity for women\u2019s most personal medical decisions,\u201d Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood, said earlier this month after a video release.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, pro-life groups are using the videos to step up their calls for investigations and defunding of Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Rallies and protests at nearly 300 Planned Parenthood clinics are planned for Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mixed poll results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Reuters\/Ipsos released a rolling poll of hundreds of people that found stable support for federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Between Aug. 13 and Aug. 18, about 54 percent of Americans consistently said they support taxpayer funding for the reproductive health and abortion group. Federal funds are not permitted to be used for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or endangerment of the life of the mother.<\/p>\n<p>But when pollsters changed their question and asked a smaller sample of people for their views on \u201ccurrent efforts\u201d to defund Planned Parenthood, the rolling poll showed a shift: Those who agreed that Planned Parenthood should be defunded grew to 39 percent, while those opposing defunding shrank to 34 percent; another 27 percent said they didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>The Reuters\/Ipsos poll further asked people if the undercover videos had affected their views on Planned Parenthood or abortion. The rolling poll found that 45 percent of people said the videos made them \u201cmore negative\u201d about Planned Parenthood, while 33 percent said it hadn\u2019t changed their views, 19 percent said it made them \u201cmore positive,\u201d and 3 percent said they didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>As for abortion in general, 51 percent said the videos had not changed their views, while 31 percent said it made them \u201cmore negative\u201d about abortion, 16 percent said it made them \u201cmore positive\u201d about abortion, and 3 percent said they didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the Senate voted to defund Planned Parenthood and send the money to community health clinics, but it failed by seven votes.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, StemExpress was in a California court Wednesday in its effort to block the release of a Center for Medical Progress video featuring a recorded conversation with three employees.<\/p>\n<p>The biotech firm, based in Placerville, California, recently ended its relationship with two California Planned Parenthood affiliates to purchase their aborted fetus parts and resell them for scientific experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik lamented StemExpress\u2019 decision to \u201cbail\u201d on Planned Parenthood, and condemned the undercover videos as \u201cpure harassment by antiabortion activists, conniving with opportunistic politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Wednesday\u2019s video \u2014 the seventh released this summer \u2014 the Center for Medical Progress said state and federal laws require that the same treatment be given to an infant born alive after an abortion as to a normally delivered baby.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. O\u2019Donnell said she observed a \u201cbeating heart\u201d in a nearly intact, late-term male fetus at the Planned Parenthood Mar Monte\u2019s Alameda clinic in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>A StemExpress supervisor asked to show her something \u201ckind of cool\u201d and tapped the heart of the aborted fetus, \u201cand it starts beating,\u201d Ms. O\u2019Donnell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m sitting here, and I\u2019m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don\u2019t know what to think,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Then Ms. O\u2019Donnell was asked to harvest the aborted child\u2019s brain, which meant slicing open his face to get at the organ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my God, this \u2026 just what am I doing?\u201d she recalled thinking to herself after she had complied. \u201cThat was the moment when I knew I couldn\u2019t work for the company anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seventh video includes an interview with an official with another biotech company who says, \u201cSo, you know, there are times when after the [abortion] procedure is done that the heart actually is still beating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also contains a brief interview with another biotech official who says that feticides, like digoxin, are not used when an aborted fetus is going to be dissected for parts because feticides taint the tissues.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Daleiden, the video project leader, said that not using drugs to kill the fetus before the abortion raises the risks that a child will be born alive.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 David Sherfinski contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/aug\/19\/planned-parenthood-kept-aborted-babies-alive-to-ha\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/aug\/19\/planned-parenthood-kept-aborted-babies-alive-to-ha\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-life group releases 7th undercover 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