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by: AnneC Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 1:41pm  
Video #3 released today
 
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.
 
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.
 
One shows Planned Parenthood executive Mary Gatter negotiating over compensation for "intact" baby pieces.
 
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.
 
Saving America from Abortion CAN be done. Details are in "Abortion Free: Your Manual to Building a Pro-Life America One Community at a Time."
 
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.
 
Read more at www.wnd.com/2015/07/ new-video-planned-pa renthood-chooses-per -item-body-part
The actual video is available at this site.
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 2:17pm  
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EyeintheSky Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 2:41pm  
I don't know about either side BUT somebody needs to look into this like NOW.
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 2:50pm  
Look into what? The medical profession is gross. There is a reason that I became an engineer and not a doctor.
 
My sister works in the pathology lab at the hospital. She takes the stuff that is removed from people and prepares the slides for the doctor to look at. She has such gross stories, she knows better than to even try to tell me about them.
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AnneC Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 3:51pm  
@joepyeweed:
It's obvious you neither read what I posted, nor watched the video. This isn't about donating tissue. It's about Planned Parenthood SELLING fetal body parts for profit. Different prices for different parts.
This ISN'T about whether abortion is right or wrong. It's about a government funded corporation trafficking human body parts.
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 4:07pm  
I read it. The whole tissue donation thing is a gross business. It's not just a Planned Parenthood thing, it's a medical industry thing.
 
There was a documentary a couple years ago about what happens when you donate your body to science. It gets hacked up into a hundred peices and the tissue banks make a ton of money (not for profit of course) collecting, documenting, and then distributing the peices.
 
It's been investigated, it seems shady and gross but it's the commonly accepted way for researchers to get properly collected and documented samples that are usable.
 
I encourage you to read the link that I posted as well.
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AnneC Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 4:15pm  
@joepyeweed:
The article you posted is about tissue donation.
The article I posted is about Planned Parenthood doctors setting prices to SELL aborted fetus parts. The video captures them discussing how much they can make on the various parts, and how they can make more by SELLING the fetal parts than by SELLING the entire body.
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 4:20pm  
The article you posted is also about tissue donation. It's what happens to tissue after its donated.
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AnneC Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 4:27pm  
Planned Parenthood is making a PROFIT on human body parts, which is clearly illegal. Somebody will be going to prison over this.
And the Senate will be voting to completely defund Planned Parenthood before the recess. All that is needed is 6 Democrats with a conscience to pass it with a veto-proof vote.
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~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 4:35pm  
Income from selling isn't the same as profit. Are we sure it's actually profit? Seems there needs to be oversight with all the sales and cost records. I know in the financial industry we need to have major documentation and then have periodic audits. And if you are "at risk", audits more often than low risk managers. How much oversight is there at PP?
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AnneC Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 4:45pm  
@AverageJoe:
"Oversight" is handled at the state level, even though PP receives federal tax dollars. At least one state, Missouri, is opening an investigation into whether their Planned Parenthood clinics are selling fetal body parts:
"Schmitt is one of nine senators assigned to a committee tasked with investigating Planned Parenthood’s procedures for handling fetal tissue, whether state dollars were used in such efforts and if any state employee had knowledge of the allegations. The state Department of Health and Senior Services is responsible for regulating abortion clinics."
 
www.stltoday.com/new s/local/govt-and-pol itics/mo-senate-comm ittee-jump-star
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~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 4:53pm  
fox6now.com/2013/05/ 09/fox6-investigator s-bidding-for-bodies /
 
If the videos generate reform in the tissue collecting business - great. But i doubt that is the purpose of the video.
 
The same thing is happening in morgues
and funeral homes across the country... Negotiating a price for tissue collections.
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 4:54pm  
I was watching the news and this topic came up. They showed the video of them discussing the selling and then it ended. The reporter made this statement evil this is pure evil any one that supports this is just as evil. That was on the 5 Fox news
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AverageJoe Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 5:08pm  
Of course fox is going to say that.
 
I don't understand state oversight if it's supposed to be a federal law. That's not right IMO.
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AnneC Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 5:14pm  
Looks like it MIGHT be looked into at the federal level, too:
"[Joni] Ernst [R-Iowa], who was attacked by Planned Parenthood for her antiabortion positions during her campaign last year against Democrat Bruce Braley, has quietly assumed a key role on the abortion issue. Last week, she was the lead signer on a letter to Health and Human Services Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell asking her department to preserve records pertaining to Planned Parenthood and to initiate a formal review of whether the group complied with federal laws and regulations pertaining to late-term abortions and fetal tissue harvesting."
 
www.washingtonpost.c om/news/post-politic s/wp/2015/07/28/gop- leaders-want-wo
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~ 8 years ago   Jul 28, '15 9:11pm  
"We also asked experts in the use of human tissue for research about the potential for profit. Sherilyn J. Sawyer, the director of Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital's "biorepository," told us that "there's no way there's a profit at that price." She continued in an email:
 
Sawyer, July 20: In reality, $30-100 probably constitutes a loss for [Planned Parenthood]. The costs associated with collection, processing, storage, and inventory and records management for specimens are very high. Most hospitals will provide tissue blocks from surgical procedures (ones no longer needed for clinical purposes, and without identity) for research, and cost recover for their time and effort in the range of $100-500 per case/block. In the realm of tissues for research $30-100 is completely reasonable and normal fee.
 
Jim Vaught, president of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories and formerly the deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research, told us in an email that "$30 to $100 per sample is a reasonable charge for clinical operations to recover their costs for providing tissue." In fact, he said, the costs to a clinic are often much higher, but most operations that provide this kind of tissue have "no intention of fully recovering [their] costs, much less making a profit."
 
Carolyn Compton, the chief medical and science officer of Arizona State University's National Biomarkers Development Alliance and a former director of biorepositories and biospecimen research at the National Cancer Institute, agreed that this was "a modest price tag for cost recovery." Compton told us in an email: " 'Profit' is out of the question, in my mind. I would say that whoever opined about 'profit' knows very little about the effort and expense involved in providing human biospecimens for research purposes." [FactCheck.org, 7/21/15]
 
www.factcheck.org/20 15/07/unspinning-the -planned-parenthood- video/
 
Also, the unedited videos are available, and demonstrate how these videos are heavily edited for anti-choice bias. Emotions shouldn't overshadow facts.
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