Daleiden said that the irony of Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in fetal body parts is that unborn children “are not considered equal enough to deserve protection”, but it is “precisely their humanity that makes them valuable”.
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Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin does not offer fetal tissue donation services, but here is what it does do – in 2014, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin provided medical services to more than 61,000 people, including 6,300 men.
David Daleiden, who is leading the investigation project for the Center for Medical Progress, charged that “the lengths to which Planned Parenthood leadership will go to cover up their illegal sale of aborted baby parts are nothing less than the desperation of a guilty conscience”. Oh my God, gonads.
Senator Bob Onder (R-Lake Saint Louis) defended the committee’s terminology, noting that used by the Planned Parenthood representatives in the undercover videos.
She goes on to say that “obviously, we would have the potential for a huge P.R. issue in doing this”, before offering to introduce the undercover buyers to “national office of abortion people” from Planned Parenthood.
“It’s never good for the abortion industry when the details of abortion are discussed”, Short continued, observing that Planned Parenthood’s method is to distance itself from abortion, manipulating statistics so it appears only three percent of its work is abortion when the organization is actually the largest provider of abortions in the country.
When she is advised $100 per specimen, VanDerhei responds, “However we’ve got unbiased colleagues who generate a good quantity of revenue doing this”.
“I’ve been speaking to the chief director of the Nationwide Abortion Federation”, she says.
A later clip shows a conversation between VanDerhei and Vanessa Russo, Compliance Program Administrator for Planned Parenthood Keystone in Pennsylvania. Yet in addition to controlling the media message about Planned Parenthood, Scott’s administration pursued doctors performing abortions at the group’s clinics and changed the definition of a second-trimester abortion to cite those clinics. An account of the video after the jump, and you can see it at the link. Russo is caught arguing, “A company like this that wants to give our organization money for the tissue-I think that that’s a valid exchange, and that that’s okay”.
Planned Parenthood received more than $525 million in government funding in 2014.
Perhaps more importantly, Planned Parenthood’s assertion of a technical excuse under current law doesn’t end the inquiry-it raises additional questions about the adequacy of the law.
The footage additionally exhibits Vanessa Cullins, Deliberate Parenthood’s vice chairman for exterior medical affairs, elevating considerations that the group might face legal prosecution if the body-parts scheme was found.
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“We don’t know the facts in Missouri and so the investigation to get the facts, to understand what’s going on in Missouri, that’s the responsible way to approach it and that’s the way you’ve been approaching it”, he told the committee.
