John R. Houk
© April 22, 2016
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt from The Center for
Medical Progress are being politically persecuted via State Attorney Generals
committed to protect Planned Parenthood from breaking the law in performing
live births of babies then murdering them for the body parts to sell for
research.
SlantRight 2.0
cross posts exposing this political persecution:
o Grand
Jury Ignores Planned Parenthood Selling Aborted Babies, Indicts Man Behind
Videos Instead – 1/26/16
o
Pro-Life
Rally Will Call for Kamala Harris’ Resignation After She Raids David Daleiden’s
Home – 4/13/16
A league of Democrats in the House tried to prevent this
investigation by the House Select
Investigative Panel on Infant Lives. That means the GOP House Majority were able to
break through the Dem Party cover-up on the Federal level just as State
political hacks have been going after Daleiden and the CMP for exposing Planned
Parenthood practices of live baby-killing then the marketing of fetal baby
parts to research companies with Stem Express appearing the most named research
organization mentioned. According Life Action News, 12 subpoenas
were issued by the House Select Committee:
o
Four subpoenas
with redacted names were sent out.
o
The remaining
subpoenas all request information either related to StemExpress, or
to the University of New Mexico and Southwestern Women’s Options, the late-term
abortion facility run by late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd.
This is going to be one long post. I am posting five news
reports. The first two are from LifeNews.com
which sent the update to my inbox, then by Breitbart.com, The Federalist and finally
a portion of Live Action News because of
the length this post will present.
JRH 4/22/16
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New Documents Prove
Planned Parenthood Illegally Profited From Selling Aborted Baby Parts
By STEVEN ERTELT
April 20, 2016 9:44AM
New documents produced by a Congressional committee show the
Planned Parenthood abortion business profited from the sales of aborted baby
parts. The documents provide more evidence that a Center for Medical Progress
video already put forward that the abortion company is violating federal law
prohibiting the profiting from the sales of body parts from aborted children.
The Center for Medical Progress released an
expose’ video earlier this year that caught the Planned
Parenthood abortion business apparently using illegal accounting tricks to hide
profits generated from the sale of aborted baby parts.
The video at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s massive Houston
abortion clinic and documents from a Texas Public Information
Act request show how Planned Parenthood used accounting
gimmicks to hide its illegal sale of body parts from aborted babies. The video
highlights previously overlooked footage from the April 9, 2015 site visit of
investigative journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt from The Center for
Medical Progress to the abortion facility.
Now, a new white paper on
the pricing of aborted bay parts from the House Select
Investigative Panel on Infant Lives reveals Planned Parenthood
appears to be breaking the law. The document points out that “to profit from
the acquisition or transfer of fetal tissue violates Title 42 USC §289 g-2,
which prohibits the transfer of any fetal tissue for valuable consideration
that exceeds the reasonable costs associated with the procurement.”
The white paper and accompanying exhibits show
that the middleman company StemExpress does all of the work to transfer the
aborted baby parts — making it so Planned Parenthood is spared any significant
expense, thus leaving it with pure profit from the sale of the parts.
“The [abortion clinic] has no costs so the payments from the
[procurement business] to the [abortion clinic] are pure profit,” the report
concludes. “All costs are born by the [procurement business] or the customer.
The payments from the customer to the PB exceed its cost by a factor of 300 to
400 percent.”
“The abortion industry sells baby hearts, livers, brains,
hands and other organs procured by a middleman company inside their facilities
at no cost or effort to the facilities themselves. The facility receives
upfront fees that can amount to five-figure sums every month and then the
procurement companies resell organs for tens of thousands more—depending on the
child’s characteristics,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony
List, said in a release. “The documents make clear there is
absolutely no cost to the abortion clinic so that all monies received go to
their bottom line.”
The document also reveals 1 in 5 abortion clinics, whether
they were affiliated with Planned Parenthood or independent abortion centers,
were selling the body parts of aborted babies when CMP began exposing the sales
at Planned Parenthood.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the head of the select panels,
commented on the new findings: “The release of those horrific videos last
summer raised many questions about whether abortion clinics and middleman
tissue procurement businesses were profiting from the sale of baby body parts,
organs and tissues.”
She said about a hearing today that will investigate the new
documents further:
“This hearing will examine business
documents, invoices, marketing brochures, and management documents that reveal
one for-profit procurement business and several abortion clinics may have
acted in violation of federal law by profiting from the sale of baby body
parts, organs and tissues.”
David Daleiden of CMP commented on the new documents and
said “The financial documents uncovered
by the Select Investigative
Panel on Infant Lives prove that Planned Parenthood profited
from the sale of aborted baby parts to their long-time business partner
StemExpress.”
“The facts are now undeniable that Planned Parenthood had no
“costs” to “reimburse” and every dollar they received for little baby hearts,
brains, and livers netted illegal profit. Planned Parenthood lied to the media,
to Congress, and to the American people for 9 months falsely
asserting they had no financial benefit from supplying baby parts. Now,
Planned Parenthood and their partners in crime must face justice under the law
for their barbaric criminal profiteering from aborted baby parts,” he
continued.
The expose’ videos catching Planned Parenthood officials
selling the body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation. Here is a
list of the twelve videos:
o
In
the first video: Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood
commented on baby-crushing: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung,
liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna
basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it
all intact.”
o
In
the second video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joked,
“I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price for baby parts.
o
In
the third video: Holly O’Donnell, a former Stem Express
employee who worked inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the
unspeakable atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs.
o
In
the fourth video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde
stated, “We don’t want to do just a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A
per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can
get out of it.” She also laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that
were “good to go.”
o
In
the fifth video: Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast
in Houston boasted of Planned Parenthood’s skill in obtaining “intact fetal
cadavers” and how her “research” department “contributes so much to the bottom
line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates,
our Research Department is the largest in the United States.”
o
In
the sixth video: Holly O’Donnell described technicians taking
fetal parts without patient consent: “There were times when they would just
take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they
would know.”
o
In
the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video: Holly O’Donnell
described the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs from a nearly intact
late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San
Jose, CA. “‘You want to see something kind of cool,’” O’Donnell says her
supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And
I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I
don’t know what to think.”
o
In
the eighth video: StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer admits Planned
Parenthood sells “a lot of” fully intact aborted babies.
o
The
ninth video: catches a Planned Parenthood medical director
discussing how the abortion company sells fully intact aborted babies —
including one who “just fell out” of the womb.
o
The
10th video: catches the nation’s biggest abortion business selling
specific body parts — including the heart, eyes and “gonads” of unborn babies. The
video also shows the shocking ways in which Planned Parenthood officials admit
that they are breaking federal law by selling aborted baby body parts for
profit.
o
Unreleased
Videos: Unreleased videos from CMP show Deb Vanderhei of Planned
Parenthood caught on tape talking about how Planned Parenthood abortion
business affiliates may “want to increase revenue [from selling baby parts] but
we can’t stop them…” Another video has a woman talking about the “financial
incentives” of selling aborted baby body parts.
o
The
11th video: catches a Texas Planned Parenthood abortionist planning
to sell the intact heads of aborted babies for research. Amna Dermish is caught
on tape describing an illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate
living, late-term unborn babies which she hopes will yield intact fetal heads
for brain harvesting.
o
The
12th video in the series shows new footage of Jennefer Russo,
medical director at Planned Parenthood in Orange County, California, describing
to undercover investigators how her abortion business tries to harvest intact
aborted babies’ bodies for a local for-profit biotech company and changes the
abortion procedure to do so.
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Planed [sic]
Parenthood Sold Aborted Babies’ Brains, Hearts, Livers, Glands, and Even Their
Scalps
By CHERYL
SULLENGER
April 20, 2016 12:59PM
The Select Panel on Infant Lives has released a series of
exhibits that prove beyond a doubt that Planned Parenthood has lied to the
American people about not earning illegal profits from trafficking aborted baby
tissue and organs.
“It is clear from the documentation released by the Select
Panel that money paid to Planned Parenthood in exchange for aborted baby
remains qualified as illegal ‘valuable consideration.’ This completely
validates every allegation that was put forth by investigators from the Center
for Medical Progress,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, who
also served as a founding board member for the Center for Medical Progress.
Newman continued, “Planned Parenthood has engaged in an
aggressive public relations campaign to convince the public that videos
released by the Center for Medical Progress were ‘hoaxed’ and that Planned
Parenthood never profited from the sale of fetal remains. Now we all can see
for ourselves that this was a bold-faced lie. Planned Parenthood should be
prosecuted for their crimes. They must not be held above the law.”
The exhibits are accompanied by a White Paper on the
Pricing of Fetal Tissue produced by the Select Panel, which
explains how all of the costs of tissue procurement were absorbed by the organ
procurement companies, such as Stem Express, and that Planned Parenthood
essentially incurred no costs.
Documents show that Planned Parenthood clinics were awarded
$10,000 contract signing bonuses by one procurement company that were disguised
as “donations.” That bonus was on top of money paid for POCs (products of
conception) and blood samples.
An example of Planned Parenthood’s profit-taking is shown on
page 37 of the Exhibit packet. It shows that four Planned Parenthood clinics in
California were paid $11,365.00 in August 2012, alone for 171 “POCs” and 196
blood samples harvested at their facilities.
A drop-down menu from a tissue procurement company’s website
shows a list of organs that were available for sale, including brains, hearts,
livers, glands, and even scalps. These organs had to be procured from abortion
facilities like Planned Parenthood.
Now you do not have to be a lawyer to see what’s going on
here,” stated Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Chairman of the Select Panel, in a written
statement. “You put up a website that offers any baby body part imaginable –
and why on earth do they need a baby scalp? Then you pick the gestation period
and then check out.”
“There is a grisly answer to Rep. Blackburn’s question about
why anyone would need a baby scalp,” said Newman. “Tissue wasn’t just being
used for ‘medical’ research but by commercial entities for the use in the
development of products for sale to the public. The male hair growth industry
is a very lucrative one.”
LifeNews.com Note: Cheryl Sullenger is a leader of Operation
Rescue, a pro-life that monitors abortion practitioners and exposes
their illegal and unethical practices.
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House Panel Documents Point to Planned Parenthood Profits
from Aborted Baby Parts
April 20, 2016
Financial documents discovered by a congressional
investigative panel allegedly show that Planned Parenthood has profited
from the sale of the body parts of babies aborted in its clinics.
The House Select Investigative
Panel on Infant Lives was created to investigate fetal tissue
practices in the abortion industry. The impetus was provided by the release of
videos last summer which exposed Planned Parenthood’s apparent practices of
selling the body parts of aborted babies and altering the position of babies
during abortion to harvest the most intact organs.
Although Planned Parenthood has denied any wrongdoing in its
sale of body parts, the abortion business also released a statement last
October announcing it would no longer accept payments for aborted fetal tissue.
A new white paper on
the pricing of fetal tissue, produced by the House panel, notes that “to profit
from the acquisition or transfer of fetal tissue violates Title 42 USC §289
g-2, which prohibits the transfer of any fetal tissue for valuable
consideration that exceeds the reasonable costs associated with the
procurement.”
The white paper and accompanying exhibits highlight
three important discoveries made by the panel.
First, fetal tissue procurement companies – such as
StemExpress, which was featured in the investigative videos produced by the
Center for Medical Progress (CMP) – appear to do all of the work in the fetal
tissue transfer, with no cost to abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood,
allegedly allowing the abortion companies to receive millions of dollars in
pure profit.
Second, by 2015, StemExpress was working with nearly 100
abortion clinics. Approximately 1 in every 5 abortion facilities nationwide was
involved in the sale of the body parts of aborted babies to StemExpress. Just
prior to the release of the CMP investigative videos, the tissue procurement
business was about to have access to over 50 percent of the abortion market.
Third, CMP’s video exposé was just the tip of the iceberg
regarding the relationship between Planned Parenthood and StemExpress.
The House Select panel is holding a hearing on Wednesday to
examine its documents and exhibits and consider the issue of whether abortion
clinics and other “middleman businesses” were violating federal law by
profiting from the transfer of aborted fetal tissue.
“The release of those horrific videos last summer raised
many questions about whether abortion clinics and middleman tissue procurement
businesses were profiting from the sale of baby body parts, organs and
tissues,” panel chair
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said in a
statement, adding:
This hearing will examine business
documents, invoices, marketing brochures, and management documents that reveal
one for-profit procurement business and several abortion clinics may have
acted in violation of federal law by profiting from the sale of baby body
parts, organs and tissues.
David Daleiden, project lead of CMP, said in
a statement about the House panel’s documents, “The financial documents uncovered
by the Select
Investigative Panel on Infant Lives prove that Planned
Parenthood profited from the sale of aborted baby parts to their long-time
business partner StemExpress.”
He added:
The facts are now undeniable that
Planned Parenthood had no “costs” to “reimburse” and every dollar they received
for little baby hearts, brains, and livers netted illegal profit. Planned
Parenthood lied to the media, to Congress, and to the American people for 9
months falsely asserting they had no financial benefit from supplying baby
parts. Now, Planned Parenthood and their partners in crime must face justice
under the law for their barbaric criminal profiteering from aborted baby parts.
Planned Parenthood and its leftwing media supporters
continue to insist the videos, produced by CMP, were “deceptively edited.”
However, a Democrat opposition research firm named Fusion –
hired by Planned Parenthood itself to review the videos – said while
its analysts observed the videos had been edited, “the analysis did not
reveal widespread evidence of substantive video manipulation.”
Additionally, Fusion noted, “[A]nalysts found no evidence
that CMP inserted dialogue not spoken by Planned Parenthood staff.”
An analysis by Coalfire, a third-party forensics company
hired by Alliance Defending Freedom, found that
the videos were “not manipulated” and that they are “authentic.”
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11 Quick Takeaways
From House Hearing On Aborted Baby Parts Trafficking
The market for
aborted baby parts is significant, growing, and operating in violation of
federal law, witnesses testified at a House hearing.
APRIL 21, 2016
Abortion clinics and the businesses that purchase aborted
baby parts likely conspired to violate federal laws against fetal human organ
trafficking, expert witnesses at a House hearing testified yesterday. Evidence
of a widespread market for unborn baby parts — down to the tongue, scalp, eyes
— was introduced at a testy hearing of the House Select Panel on Infant Lives.
Here are the 11 big takeaways from the hearing chaired by
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, (R-TN).
1) Federal Law
Prohibits Profiting Off of Aborted Baby Parts
In 1993, the House passed the National Institutes of Health
Revitalization Act of 1993 with an amendment stating, “It shall be unlawful for
any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human fetal
tissue for valuable consideration if the transfer affects interstate commerce.”
Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), the abortion rights proponent who pushed the
amendments, said at the time, “It would be abhorrent to allow the sale of fetal
tissue and a market to be established for that sale.”
Witnesses such as Catherine Glenn Foster of the Charlotte
Lozier Institute testified that the law has not been enforced in the last 23
years, permitting just such a market to flourish.
2) The Basic Business
Model for Aborted Baby Parts
Abortion clinics supply the aborted baby parts to
researchers through a “procurement business” middleman. Researchers pay some
amount of money to the procurement business. The procurement business pays the
abortion clinic for the human organs they supply via abortion. And the abortion
clinic receives payment for the organs and tissue they obtain. Payment is
permitted for “reasonable costs,” associated with securing the aborted baby
parts.
The procurement industry markets itself to abortion clinics
as a way to improve their profitability. In a section of one procurement
company brochure titled “Easy to implement
program + financial profits,” the company stated that partnering
with them would provide “a financial benefit to your clinic,” and was
“financially profitable.” The brochure also featured an endorsement from Dr.
Dorothy Furgerson of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.
The market for aborted baby parts was good for at least one
procurement company, which was poised to do business with 250 abortion clinics
before undercover videos exposed fetal organ sales and drew unwanted attention
to the practice.
3) Abortion Clinics
Aren’t Incurring Costs
Federal law permits payment for reasonable costs associated
with the procurement of aborted baby parts. But under the business model being
investigated, the procurement business sends its own technician into an
abortion clinic to do the work of securing the human organs. The costs are
incurred by the procurement business, but the abortion clinic still gets paid
money.
“Every conceivable task is performed by the procurement
business employees” and not abortion clinic staff, according to committee staff
presenting information from one procurement business. The customer places an
order for tissue; the order is posted for a procurement technician to see; the
technician reviews the medical files of women and girls who have abortions
scheduled for the day; the technician informs the clinic about tissues needed
for orders; the technician obtains consent from patients based on gestation and
order data; the technician procures the body parts requested; the technician
packages and ships the tissue to the customer; the technician records invoices
for the clinic; and, finally, the middleman pays the clinic per tissue sample.
Investigators released evidence of guidance given to
procurement technicians showing that they alone manage the entire organ
procurement process — from targeting specific women for baby parts based on
order demands to shipping the body parts to the customer. There was no evidence
shown that abortion clinics incur costs as part of the process.
This business model might explain why Planned Parenthood
announced in October that it would no longer accept money
for aborted baby parts. To accept money, when there are no
reasonable costs associated with providing the parts, would be a clear
violation of the law.
Or as Foster said, “Abortion clinics are being promised a
profit and are paid even when they have no apparent costs to be reimbursed,
which further multiplies a clinic’s windfall via savings on disposal services.
Tissue procurement companies are likewise paid exorbitantly by their customers.
This market in baby organs and tissues demonstrates a flagrant and repeated
disregard for the rule of law. It was no surprise when America’s biggest
abortion business, facing public and prosecutorial exposure, relented and
agreed to end its longstanding practice of receiving direct payments for baby
body parts.”
4) The Market for
Aborted Baby Parts Is Very Specific
Evidence was released at the hearing showing a drop-down menu order
form where researchers can order any and all baby body parts, including brain,
heart, lungs, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, esophagus, tongue, and scalp. Yes,
scalp.
5) Aborted Baby Parts
Are Valuable
One of the most interesting things about the revelation that
abortion clinics sell fetal body parts is that the unborn child is not
considered a valuable human when it comes to ending her life prematurely, but
her body parts are considered incredibly valuable precisely because of her
humanity. Invoices regarding the sale and transfer of fetal organs were
presented at the hearing. One customer paid $22,610 for 38 fetal brains.
Another paid $3,340 for a fetal brain, $595 for a “baby skull matched to upper
and lower limbs,” and $890 for “upper and lower limbs with hands and feet.”
6) Everyone Agrees:
Forensic Audits Are Needed
Investigators have begun to find evidence of a significant
market for fetal organs. They know that there are profitable procurement
businesses that have exploded in growth in recent years. They know that
hundreds of abortion clinics are partnered with these procurement businesses.
And they have evidence that abortion clinics were paid for the organs from
aborted children, even though the procurement business handled all of the
costs.
When income exceeds costs, that’s profit. Planned Parenthood
and other abortion clinics claimed they didn’t profit from their sale of human
organs.
Witnesses testifying at the hearing for both the Republicans
and the Democrats said that the committee needs to subpoena financial records
from procurement businesses and abortion clinics in order to determine whether
these sales violate the law.
Brian Patrick Lennon, a former Assistant United States
Attorney in Michigan, reviewed the evidence presented for the hearing and said that there was
enough for a “competent, ethical federal prosecutor” to
“establish probable cause that both the abortion clinics and the procurement
business violated the statute, aided and abetted one another in violating the
statute, and likely conspired together to violate the statute.” However, he
said that forensic accounting and analysis were absolutely needed to determine
whether the payments to those involved in the business were in excess of what
the law permits.
No state investigation has involved forensic auditing, and
no federal investigation has thus far.
7) Democratic Members
Are Upset at Investigation
From the moment the hearing started, Democratic members of
the panel, such as Rep. Diana DeGette, (D-Planned Parenthood) attempted to keep
the evidence of fetal organ markets from being discussed.
Evidence revealed that they are working with procurement businesses
attorneys to fight the investigation. That bolstered reporting from The
New York Times that Democrats on the committee are helping
others in the fetal organ market hide information sought by investigators.
The strenuous Democratic efforts to fight the evidence, to
help those in the industry thwart investigation, and to question the very
investigation into fetal organ markets were difficult to ignore.
Democratic members’ strategy appeared to be 1) fight
discussion of evidence; 2) say the investigation is too expensive; 3) issue
Planned Parenthood talking points against The Center for Medical Progress
videos (which were not a topic of discussion at this hearing); and 4) claim
that the evidence of fetal organ markets didn’t show fetal organ markets. When
shown the drop-down order menu for fetal scalps, for instance, DeGette said it
wasn’t evidence of fetal organ markets. This would be akin to looking at the
Amazon.com website and saying it doesn’t suggest you can buy books online.
This strategy wasn’t particularly effective at the hearing,
but it does show the danger of believing one’s own talking points. An
independent audit showed that The Center for Medical Progress videos were not
deceptively edited, and Planned Parenthood itself conceded that the
statements by its staff featured in the video were not manipulated. But
Planned Parenthood supporters (and recipients of Planned Parenthood campaign
donations, such as those on the panel) and their allies in the media protested
that the videos were nevertheless fraudulent. Their talking point from the very
beginning has been that the whole story is made up. Faced with overwhelming
evidence of a fetal organ market, the response was to fight discussion of the
evidence and then to claim that the evidence didn’t really show what it seemed
to show. In that sense, their performance at the hearing is similar to the
pro-choice movement’s response to the initial videos. Who are you going to
believe, Jerry Nadler or your own lying eyes? They’re banking on the media
believing Nadler. (And it’s not a bad bet!)
8) Democrats
Struggling with Consistency on Discretion
Throughout the investigation, Democrats have claimed to be
worried that investigating those involved in fetal organ markets will put them
at risk. At the hearing yesterday, Republican staff removed all identifying
information of the people and companies being discussed. However, Democratic
members revealed names while discussing the evidence. Even more, they complained that the Republican staff
had redacted the names.
9) Consent Process
Raises Questions about Minors, HIPAA
The hearing showed that the procurement business technicians
“consent” the women and girls who seek abortions. Some witnesses noted
that the technicians have access to the names and private information of the
individual seeking the abortion and will call her out by name to discuss
“donating” the body parts of her unborn child. If she consents, she signs a
form. One witness raised the issue of the third party business having access to
this information. Another noted that many abortion clinics are performing
abortions on minors, raising a question of whether the minor even can consent
to the tissue “donation.”
10) Media Still
Lagging on Major Story
Bethlehem College professor Joe Rigney made an
excellent point about the relative lack of media interest in this human rights
story about fetal organ harvesting. He said, “Journalists like to
think that, when faced with coverup of great evil, they’d do what the Globe
team did in the movie Spotlight.” Their conduct with the revelation of fetal
organ harvesting and selling shows the exact opposite, he said. “They’re not the brave
exposer of institutional evil. They’re the bishop talking about how much good
the Church does for the neighborhood, so let’s keep this abuse thing quiet.”
This hearing did have media interest, and many reporters are
covering it well. But when a hearing reveals evidence of a significant market
in fetal organ sales — in a year when that very claim has been fought over —
much more coverage is needed. And when congressional investigators are doing a
better job than journalists of finding out information, it’s flat out
embarrassing. The expert witnesses who testified today about minors, HIPAA, and
conspiracies involving abortion clinics and procurement businesses were
witnesses that members of the media could have interviewed in previous months.
11) Daleiden
Vindicated
Perhaps the best way to sum up this hearing was that it
revealed evidence that vindicates David Daleiden and The Center for Medical
Progress. Daleiden showed that abortion clinics were selling human organs from
the babies they abort, that there is a market for such body parts, and that
this raises questions of violations of federal law.
Daleiden said, after the hearing, “The undercover video
admissions by senior-level Planned Parenthood officials only scratch the
surface of this barbaric trade. The financial documents uncovered by the Select
Investigative Panel on Infant Lives prove that Planned Parenthood profited from
trafficking fetal organs and tissues. We now know the criminal trade in body
parts is spread nationwide throughout the abortion industry, with nearly one in
five abortion clinics selling baby parts to StemExpress. Even the pro-Planned
Parenthood witnesses called by the panel minority agreed that a robust
investigation should seek testimony and accounting documents from Planned
Parenthood.”
That’s why Planned Parenthood’s staunchest defenders tried
to keep the evidence at the hearing from being discussed.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is a senior editor at The
Federalist. Follow her on Twitter at @mzhemingway
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Congressional panel issues subpoenas to fetal research
organizations
April 4, 2016 4:28 PM
The subpoenas are being moved almost as quickly as the
baby parts after an abortion. The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives has
announced the issuance of 12 new subpoenas in its
ongoing investigation on the harvesting of fetal body parts, following the
release of multiple undercover videos last year from the Center for Medical
Progress.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee had previously
requested the information, but says
these subpoenas were sent “to organizations who have failed to
fully cooperate with both requests for information and previous subpoenas.”
A press release notes that groups have been uncooperative with
the panel.
“To date the Majority Staff of the Select Investigative Panel has
sent more than 40 letters requesting documents. Those letters all asked for
information to be provided voluntarily.”
Committee Chairman Marsha
Blackburn made the following statement with regards to the
ongoing investigation:
There should be no resistance to
letting all the facts come out — but some abortion supporters seem to be
clearly rattled with basic facts coming to light… Therefore, in the
interest of completing our investigation pursuant to H. Res. 461, we will
continue to issue subpoenas when necessary to ensure information can be
gathered in a timely fashion.
The subpoenas were handed to various biomedical
organizations. One of … READ
THE REST
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New Documents Prove Planned Parenthood
Illegally Profited From Selling Aborted Baby Parts
AND
Planed [sic] Parenthood Sold Aborted
Babies’ Brains, Hearts, Livers, Glands, and Even Their Scalps
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