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The National Catholic Register profiles David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress, whose undercover videos have exposed the sale of fetal tissues and generated a surge of indignation against Planned Parenthood.
The two shocking videos that have already been made public represent only a part of the group’s work, Daleiden reveals. There will be more videos coming, perhaps each week: a total of about a dozen.
Daleiden explains his commitment to the pro-life cause and his horror at the sale of organs taken from aborted babies. “They are saying that some unborn babies are more valuable dead than alive,” he remarks. “It’s a terrible, barbaric place for a democratic society to go.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25615
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With the façade of a fictitious biotechnology company, David Daleiden and his fellow investigators from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) infiltrated the bowels of the abortion industry at its ugliest.
For 30 months, as part of their “Human Capital” investigation, they followed the trail that led to aborted babies whose parts are earmarked for sale, even while their little hearts are still beating.
“It is a paradox that we can’t have laws that recognize unborn babies as human, and yet, it is their very humanness that makes them valuable for experimentation,” Daleiden said in an interview last week with the Register.
“It is as if they [the biotech companies] are going on a treasure hunt for the heads or hearts of babies, but how much more valuable would those heads and hearts be if they were allowed to grow up and be a part of society?”
As leader of the project, Daleiden schmoozed and lunched with people at the top of Planned Parenthood — abortionists, administrators and directors. Acting as if he wanted to procure the valuable parts of aborted babies, Daleiden secretly videotaped the perpetrators so they would be admitting their own guilt in front of what certainly would be a shocked public.
It was mission accomplished on July 14, when Daleiden released the first of a dozen videos. In just a few days, more than 2 million people had viewed the video, and five investigations were opened: three congressional and two state. And this week, his organization released a second video that has further intensified the public questioning of Planned Parenthood’s fetal-tissue policies and calls for defunding and more investigations.
But Planned Parenthoods’ callous disregard for the bodies of innocent babies should have surprised no one, according to Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia.
“No one should be shocked by this video,” Archbishop Chaput said in a statement for the Register. “This is who Planned Parenthood is and what it does. It’s been part of the organization’s gene code from the start. The logic of its disdain for new life is just working itself out. And it won’t stop until the money and the media adulation are cut off.”
Caught Off Guard
Perhaps no one was caught off guard last week more than Planned Parenthood’s leaders, who thought Daleiden was one of their supporters.
“Off hand, I don’t even know how many people we talked with,” he said. “It was dozens. But no one ever suspected anything. I’m sure they got the surprise of their careers the morning they woke up and saw the video.”
The day after the first video was released, Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, released a statement apologizing for Dr. Deborah Nucatola’s “tone” in discussing fetal-tissue procurement during abortions, but denied that they profit from tissue donation.
By the following Monday, Planned Parenthood’s lawyer issued a five-page letter to the investigating House Energy and Commerce Committee accusing Daleiden of many things, including harassing Planned Parenthood and likely deceptively editing the videos. The letter complains that Daleiden passed as a representative of the fake company Biomax Procurement Services; and that as part of the ruse, he had even set up displays at Planned Parenthood conferences.
But not everything was an act. Daleiden said he truly considered Nucatola a friend. She is the senior director of medical services, who, in the first video, is seen sipping wine and munching on salad in between chatting about harvesting babies’ organs — even casually mentioning she “did a 17-weeker just this morning.”
“Everyone on the investigative team who worked with Dr. Nucatola really liked her; she was always very personable,” Daleiden said, and then paused a moment. “I hope she decides to get out and stop doing abortions.”
Daleiden, who is Catholic, said he prays for the abortion providers he met during the project.
But Daleiden was clearly not there to make friends. “We need to hold Planned Parenthood responsible for their atrocities against humanity,” he said. “These videos are to inform and activate the public about what is going on right under our noses — with taxpayer dollars.”
And CMP has only just begun. There will be around a dozen more shocking videos in all, including the latest, where a Planned Parenthood executive jokes about pricing baby parts and says, “I want a Lamborghini.”
“We didn’t want this to be a flash in the pan and then forgotten,” Daleiden said.
The tentative schedule is to release one a week. Despite accusations that the first video was heavily edited, the full two-hour unedited version was released at the same time as the summary video. It will be the same with each one to follow.
‘Harvesting’ Process
It was while majoring in government at Claremont McKenna College in California that Daleiden received his first hint that the abortion industry was selling parts from aborted babies.
“I was working as a research assistant and attended a stem-cell conference as part of my job,” he said. “The presenter mentioned using cells from an aborted baby for research. That got my attention. I thought, ‘Wait a minute — what?’”
Although he had been active in the pro-life movement since high school, before that moment, he had not thought about aborted babies being used in research.
That thought stayed with him. He continued his pro-life work, which included working as a citizen journalist investigating the abortion industry, and became the director of research for Live Action in 2008.
In 2013, at the age of 24, he founded the Center for Medical Progress to investigate in-depth bioethical issues. “Human Capital” is its first project.
Part of the preparation for the project included studying Life Dynamics’ research from 15 years ago. That organization had paid an employee of a fetal tissue-collection organization to provide evidence of illegal practices at a Planned Parenthood facility in Overland Park, Kan.
The story got the attention of ABC’s 20/20. A congressional investigation was opened but became politicized and poorly managed, so the issue was soon dropped. Daleiden said it became a learning tool for the “Human Capital” investigation. “There was plenty of evidence, but because they [Life Dynamics] went after the middleman and the investigation fell apart, Planned Parenthood got away.”
Daleiden said he knew that his team had to go directly to the supplier of baby parts: Planned Parenthood. The harvesting companies send technicians to the large abortion facilities every morning with a list of baby parts they are looking for, Daleiden explained.
He said the top companies in the industry are StemExpress, Novogenix and Advanced Bioscience Resource. In the first video, Nucatola referred to the biotech’s morning round, saying she likes a morning “huddle” with staff to go over the list of parts to be “harvested” for the day.
According to Daleiden, although the biotech company incurs all the work and expenses involved in procuring the body parts, Planned Parenthood still charges a “specimen fee” for each one.
“Our investigators spent almost three years deeply imbedded with Planned Parenthood and their affiliates,” Daleiden said. “And we heard from their own mouths, over and over, again and again, that they make money off of selling the parts of aborted babies and have a profit motive in doing so.”
“Turning aborted babies into a revenue stream is an inhuman exploitation of the not fully dead,” Daleiden said.
“They are saying that some unborn babies are more valuable dead than alive. It’s a terrible, barbaric place for a democratic society to go.”
An Insider’s Perspective
Theresa Deisher helped to prepare Daleiden for his role as a biomedical representative, teaching him the ins and outs of the field.
She holds a Ph.D. in molecular and cellular physiology from Stanford University and worked for more than 20 years in the commercial biomedical industry. As her respect for the unborn grew, so did her intolerance for working in a field where experimenting on material from aborted babies is rampant. She is now the president of Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute and CEO of AVM Biotechnology; both companies have a mission to end the use of aborted babies in biomedical research.
“It is legal for Planned Parenthood to charge ‘processing fees’ for harvesting the parts of aborted babies, but it is not legal to sell to them, and she [Nucatola] did say sell in the video,” Deisher noted.
Whether the babies are born alive is a crucial question, according to Deisher. “In order to get good heart tissue, it has to be processed within five minutes of death. I bet the gruesome fact is that many of those babies are alive when they are harvested.”
She also noted that Nucatola talks about going for the calvarian — the top of the head. “They can’t get that with the head inside, so is the baby alive when they collect it?”
At the core of the problem, according to Deisher, is the belief that using fetal material is necessary for research. “Once we turn a blind eye to the baby being a person or say we are only going to do it once,” she said, “the flood gates are opened.”
Deisher described the use of the first tissue from an aborted baby as the opening of a Pandora’s box that won’t close now.
“People don’t want to walk the hard walk or to look like they are not progressive,” she said. “But what is progressive about taking a baby and chopping it up to make vaccines or do research?”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/why-the-catholic-behind-the-planned-parenthood-videos-went-undercover-82927/
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Another undercover video released today allegedly shows a senior official at Planned Parenthood flippantly discussing monetary compensation for aborted baby organs, and the alteration of abortion procedures to ensure that the organs are intact.
“It’s been years since I talked about compensation, so let me just figure out what others [Planned Parenthood affiliates] are getting. If this [price] is in the ballpark, it’s fine, if it’s still low then we can bump it up,” Dr. Mary Gatter appears to tell actors posing as representatives of a fetal tissue procurement company, before joking, “I want a Lamborghini.”
Dr. Gatter is president of the Planned Parenthood medical directors’ council and oversees a Planned Parenthood facility in Pasadena, Calif.
The eight-minute video was released by the citizen journalist group Center for Medical Progress, which reports on medical ethics. It is the second video released as part of their report, “Human Capital,” the result of a three-year investigative study of Planned Parenthood and its transfer of body parts of aborted babies for money.
The first undercover video was made public last week, showing the organization’s senior director of medical services discussing the “donation” of body parts of aborted babies for “reasonable” compensation. The Planned Parenthood official estimated the price for the body parts from $30 to $100 per “specimen.”
Planned Parenthood has defended the practice, saying that it is not making significant or illegal profits from the process, and that it receives appropriate consent from mothers.
The new video purports to show Gatter saying that “we’re not in it for the money, and we don’t want to be in a position of being accused of selling tissue, and stuff like that. On the other hand, there are costs associated with the use of our space, and that kind of stuff…it has to be big enough that it is worthwhile.”
Gatter appears to suggest “$75 a specimen,” as a price that would “work” for fetal tissue of aborted babies.
Federal law generally prohibits the selling of human tissue but allows for the donation of tissue with “reasonable payments” for the “transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue.” It explicitly prohibits the sale of tissue for “valuable consideration.”
The video also includes a discussion of possibly adjusting the abortion procedure of certain babies to better deliver an “intact specimen” to the organ harvesters.
“(I)f our usual technique is suction, at 10 to 12 weeks, and we switch to using an IPAS or something with less suction, and increase the odds that it will come out as an intact specimen, then we’re kind of violating the protocol that says to the patient, ‘We’re not doing anything different in our care of you’,” Gatter appears to say.
“Now to me, that’s kind of a specious little argument,” she appears to continue, saying that she “wouldn’t object” to asking the abortion doctor “to use an IPAS at that gestational age, in order to increase the odds that he’s going to get an intact specimen, but I do need to throw it out there as a concern. Because the patient is signing something and we’re signing something saying that we’re not changing anything with the way we’re managing you, just because we agree to give tissue.”
“I think they’re both totally appropriate techniques. There’s no difference in pain involved. I don’t think the patients would care one iota. So yeah, I’m not making a fuss about that.”
At the end of the video, she appears to instruct one of the “buyers” to send her a business proposal. “And then, if we want to pursue this, mutually, I’ll mention this to Ian [the surgeon] and see how he feels in terms of how he feels about using a ‘less crunchy’ technique to get more whole specimens.”
More undercover videos could be released in coming weeks. A lawyer from Planned Parenthood sent a letter to Rep. Fred Upton, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is launching an investigation into the organization after the release of the first video.
“We don’t know what the Center will release next, but we know enough to be deeply concerned about the infiltration of Planned Parenthood and its affiliates,” the letter states. It said that Planned Parenthood had at least 65 meetings with the Center for Medical Progress, and suggested that future videos could include racial questions and footage of an area used to process the tissue of aborted babies.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/in-new-video-planned-parenthood-exec-appears-to-joke-about-pricing-baby-parts-32290/
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The Center for Medical Progress has released the third in a series of undercover videos exposing the sale of fetal tissue by Planned Parenthood abortion clinics.
The latest video, released on July 28, includes grisly footage showing the dismembered body of an aborted baby, from which technicians are preparing to harvest desired parts.
As the technicians discuss how many different tissue samples can be harvested, Savita Ginde, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, says: “I think the ‘per item’ thing works a little better just because we can see how much we can get out of it.”
The third video also exposes the work of Stem Express, a California corporation that has experience spectacular growth while procuring tissues for researchers. A former employee of the company explains on the video how Planned Parenthood provided fetal tissues. “For whatever we could procure, they would get a certain percentage,” she said.
The former employee recalls that when she was first asked to harvest tissue from a dismembered fetus, she fainted. A sympathetic nurse told her, as she was revived, that the reaction was not unusual. “Some of us don’t ever get over it.”
The undercover videos have produced public pressure for a government investigation into Planned Parenthood, and an end to taxpayer funding of the organization. Pro-life activists organized rallies at 60 different locations across the country on July 28, demanding a government response to the apparent violation of laws against trafficking in fetal tissue.
Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Stem Cell Express has sought a court injunction against the release of the undercover videos.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25655
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Even Hillary finds the videos disturbing;
Hillary Clinton has staunchly defended Planned Parenthood in the wake of recently released videos that an anti-abortion group claims to show employees with the organization discussing the sale of aborted fetal tissue.
But, in a new interview, she calls the graphic videos “disturbing” and says there should be a national investigation into that practice.
“I have seen pictures from them and obviously find them disturbing,” the Democratic presidential candidate told the New Hampshire Union Leader on Tuesday in regards to the videos, which were released by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress. “Planned Parenthood is answering questions and will continue to answer questions.”
http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-calls-planned-parenthood-videos-disturbing-162511319.html
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Another damaging video exposing Planned Parenthood’s involved in the sale of fetal tissues was released on July 30, just hours after a judge in California issued a restraining order barring the release of some similar videos.
In the 4th in a series of undercover videos, a Planned Parenthood official in Colorado is caught discussing ways to avoid possible criminal liability for trading in fetal tissues.
Explaining the need for caution to an actor posing as a potential buyer of fetal-tissue samples, Savita Ginde, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, says: “We don’t want to get called on, you know, selling fetal parts across states.” She assures the “buyer,” however, that the organization’s lawyers “will make sure we’re not put in that situation.”
In a California courtroom, meanwhile, on July 29 a judge granted a request from Stem Express for a restraining order stopping the release of further undercover videos. (Stem Express, a California company involved in the purchase and sale of human tissue, was the target of the 3rd undercover video in the current series.) The restraining order applies only to videos that show employees of Stem Express, and will be valid until an August 19 hearing on the case. David Daleiden voiced his confidence that the restraining order would be only temporary, referring to the case as “meritless litigation.”
The 4th video released by the Center for Medical Progress showed only employees of Planned Parenthood, not of Stem Express. In the most damaging comments yet released in the series, Dr. Ginde speaks about how to set prices for fetal organs, how to train abortionists to ensure that organs are intact, and how to craft public statements to avoid complaints. She suggests that the effort should be classified as “research” rather than as a business venture, to avoid legal complications and public scrutiny.
Like the previous videos, the 4th shows grisly footage of fetal remains, with Planned Parenthood personnel isolating organs and commenting on their potential cash value.
In a related development, Planned Parenthood claimed that its web site was hacked—although there was no evidence of hacking and no reported outage. The site featured an appeal for more funding.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25678
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The head of the investigative team whose videotapes have exposed the sale of fetal tissues now says that Planned Parenthood may have been involved in harvesting organs from babies who were born alive.
David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress told a CNN interviewer that his group had videotaped a conversation with the top executive of Stem Express, a company that supplies medical tissues for research, and “they admitted that they sometimes sometimes get fully intact fetuses shipped to their laboratory from the abortion clinics they work with, and that could be prima facie evidence of born alive infants.”
Earlier this week, Stem Express asked a California court to block the release of any undercover videos featuring executives of the firm. Daleiden told CNN that he is convinced the damaging videotape, with the discussion of fully intact fetuses, is the reason for their legal action—that “they’re trying to suppress that videotape and they’re very scared of it.”
The court order barring release of videotapes involving Stem Express officials is valid until August 19, when the court will have a hearing on the merits of the unusual call for a permanent order to forbid use of the videotapes.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25694
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On Friday, CMP and its founder, David Daleiden, were sued in San Francisco federal court by the National Abortion Federation, a nonprofit representing abortion providers, which claims that the campaign violates its members’ privacy and threatens their safety. The lawsuit seeks a court order halting further releases of videos containing names, addresses, and other private information about NAF members, including information drawn from the group’s meetings.
https://www.yahoo.com/health/state-probes-find-zero-planned-parenthood-125533982837.html
The other foot is starting to fall.
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A citizen journalism group investigating abortion clinics’ procurement of organs and tissue from unborn babies has pledged to contest a court order barring the release of recordings made of an abortionists’ conference.
The Center for Medical Progress said that it follows “all applicable laws” and that it will fight “any attempts to suppress our First Amendment rights to free speech or silence the freedom of the citizen press.”
On July 31 federal judge William Orrick in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order in response to a lawsuit against the center from the National Abortion Federation.
The court order said the National Abortion Federation could suffer irreparable injury, such as “harassment, intimidation, violence, invasion of privacy, and injury to reputation,” the Associated Press reports.
The abortion federation’s lawsuit said that the journalist group created a false company to gain entry to its annual conferences in 2014 and 2015 and then recorded its members. The federation alleged that the investigators violated non-disclosure agreements the investigators had signed.
According to the abortion group, the non-disclosure agreement includes a ban on videotaping or recording the meeting. It said it only allows use of conference information “to help enhance the quality and safety of services” of its conference's participants.
The Center for Medical Progress said the lawsuit was “meritless.” It characterized the abortion federation as “a criminal organization that has spent years conspiring with Planned Parenthood on how to violate federal laws on partial-birth abortion and fetal tissue sales.”
The center has conducted a three-year investigation of abortion providers and fetal harvesting. The center’s investigators went undercover as a fetal tissue procurement company.
Beginning July 14, the organization started to release video summaries, as well as complete video footage, of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the harvesting of organs from aborted babies and reimbursement for the tissue. One discussion covers the possible alteration of the abortion procedure to ensure an “intact specimen.”
Federal law generally prohibits the selling of human tissue, but allows for the donation of tissue with “reasonable payments” for the “transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue.” It explicitly prohibits the sale of tissue for “valuable consideration.”
On July 28 a Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued a separate restraining order blocking the Center for Media Progress from releasing any video of leaders of the California-based company StemExpress. The company reportedly provides fetal tissue for research in partnership with Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics.
The Center for Media Progress also called the StemExpresss lawsuit meritless, adding that it intends to “cover-up this illegal baby parts trade.”
The videos have renewed debate over abortion and over taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. While federal funding for abortion is generally forbidden, the government funds other services of the abortion provider.
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, chair of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee, has asked Senators to vote to withhold federal funding of Planned Parenthood.
“It has long been troubling to many Americans that the nation’s largest abortion network, performing over a third of all abortions, receives over half a billion taxpayer dollars a year. This concern has rightly grown in recent years,” he said in an Aug. 3 letter.
He noted that the latest reports revealed the abortion provider’s willingness to “traffic in fetal tissue from abortions,” and that to alter abortion procedures to obtain more intact organs showed “a callousness toward women and their unborn children that is shocking to many Americans.”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/undercover-reports-on-fetal-body-parts-trade-face-legal-hurdles-40111/
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In the latest in a shocking series of undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, an official at a Planned Parenthood clinic discusses delivery of babies who are aborted intact, and speaks of late-term abortions that would seem to violate state laws.
Melissa Farrell, the research director at Gulf Coast (Texas) Planned Parenthood, tells undercover reporters that her branch of the organization helps with the "diversification of the revenue stream." Directly contradicting the claim that Planned Parenthood only recoups its costs by the sale of fetal tissues, she says: "I think everyone realizes, especially because my department contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization..."
In discussing the prices that Planned Parenthood could command for fetal organs, Farrell explains that administrative costs can be calculated along with "anything that we piggyback onto that for collection purposes."
The Planned Parenthood official also speaks about altering abortion procedures in order to maximize the change that organs will remain intact; she says that "we deviate from our standard in order to do that."
Farrell also reveals that some of the doctors working at the Planned Parenthood clinic are collecting samples of fetal tissue for their own research. It is not clear whether the woman procuring abortions realize that their babies' organs are being harvested for private research, much less that the clinic earns extra income by changing abortion techniques to preserve intact organs.
The latest undercover video from the Center for Medical Progress was released after a California judge issued a restraining order that forbids the release of videos showing employees of the National Abortion Federation. No employees of that organization appeared in the video released on August 4.
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25723
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The Catholic bishops of Colorado have asked the faithful to observe a day of penance and prayer as a response to the revelations of the harvesting of organs from aborted children.
“We call on all people of good will in Colorado and beyond to pray that those involved in research and medicine will fix their sights on recognizing the sacredness of life and refrain from putting human life at the service of science,” the bishops said, in a statement released by the Colorado Catholic Conference. They set August 28 as a special day of prayer and penance.
The call for prayer was a response to undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. One such video focused on Planned Parenthood of the Rockies, located in Denver
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25753
Will you join the Colorado Catholics in prayer and penance?
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In a new video exposing the sale of tissue from aborted babies, the Center for Medical Progress interviews a former employee who says that tissues were sometimes collected without the consent of the woman procuring the abortion.
“It’s not an option; it’s a demand,” said Holly O’Donnell, who worked with Stem Express, a California company that collects tissues for medical research, in the new video. She charged that at Planned Parenthood clinics, tissues were harvested at times without the required consent forms.
In cases involving a late-term abortion, when a particular fetal organ was sought, “there were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know,” O’Donnell said.
Workers approached women in the clinic to obtain consent even when they were emotional or in pain, weeping and even vomiting, O’Donnell reported. She said that the workers would seek consent even before women had made the option to obtain an abortion. “Pregnancy tests are potential pregnancies, therefore potential specimens,” she explained. “So it’s just taking advantage of the opportunities.”
The new video—the 6th in a series produced by the Center for Medical Progress—is not an undercover video, but a face-to-face interview with O’Donnell. Her former employer, Stem Express, has obtained a court order barring the Center for Medical Progress from releasing film of current employees.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25804
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A California court has denied a bid by Stem Express, a company engaged in the sale of human tissue for research, for access to undercover video recordings by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP).
Stem Express, which had been the focus of a CMP video report on the sale of fetal tissue by Planned Parenthood, had earlier won a temporary restraining order, barring release of videos that showed employees of the California-based company. Seeking an injunction that would extend that ban, Stem Express then asked the court to provide access to the undercover recordings.
Judge Joane O’Donnell denied the request, explaining that Stem Express had not met the high standard required for “prior restraint” on the release of the videos. “Plaintiff does not persuade the Court that the discovery it seeks is necessary to obtain the preliminary injunction,” the judge wrote. “That is because it appears unlikely that the Court is going to grant the preliminary injunction.”
The court’s restraining order on the release of CMP material applies only to those videos that show employees of Stem Express, and that restraining order expires on August 19. The judge's words suggest that she is unlikely to extend the order.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25836
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The University of Massachusetts Medical School has paid $29,000 for tissues harvested from aborted babies.
The pro-life activist group Operation Rescue obtained docuмents from the sales to the school. The fetal tissues were supplied by StemExpress, the California company that recently became embroiled in the Planned Parenthood organ-harvesting scandal.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25867
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A new video in an investigative series on Planned Parenthood shows a former technician saying that she had once been traumatized by the experience of gathering tissue from an aborted baby whose heart was still beating.
Holly O’Donnell, former technician for the biotech company StemExpress, LLC, said that after the intact delivery of “the most gestated fetus and closest thing to a baby that I’ve seen,” a clinic worker called for her to come over and see something “kind of cool.”
“She just taps the heart, and it starts beating,” O’Donnell said in the video released by the Center for Medical Progress.
“I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think,” she said. “I don’t know if that constitutes it’s technically dead, or it’s alive.”
After seeing the fetus, O’Donnell said she was handed scissors “to cut down the middle of the face” in order to obtain brain tissue for medical research. “I can’t even describe what that feels like,” she said.
Dr. Ben Van Handel of Novogenix Laboratories, LLC, said in the video that “there are times when after the procedure [abortion] is done, that the heart actually is still beating.”
The accusation that Planned Parenthood has been harvesting organs of babies born before an abortion procedure is part of an ongoing legal controversy between the abortion giant and citizen journalist group Center for Medical Progress.
In July, StemExpress sought an injunction to block the release of a video “where their leadership admitted that they sometimes get fully intact fetuses shipped to their laboratory from the abortion clinics they work with,” said David Daleiden, project lead for Center for Medical Progress, in a July 31 interview with CNN.
“That could be prima facie evidence of born alive infants,” he said.
While the temporary restraining order was initially granted, a California judge later stated that it was unlikely that a preliminary injunction would be granted. StemExpress severed its ties with Planned Parenthood last week.
According to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, a baby “born alive” is one who “breathes or has a beating heart.” Under the law, infants born alive or those who survive botched abortion attempts must be granted the same protection and treatment that any other newborn baby is entitled to under federal law.
Daleiden, discussing fully intact fetuses and tissue procurement on CNN Aug. 4, said that any feticide or fatal drug like digoxin that is administered before an abortion procedure would adversely disrupt the tissue extraction process since it “poisons” the fetal tissue. Thus harvesters who obtain a “fully-intact” baby from an abortion did so from an abortion procedure performed after a live birth, he claimed.
The Aug. 19 video claims evidence of “fully-intact” babies delivered to harvesters. Perrin Larton, a procurement manager for a company called Advanced Bioscience Resources, described in the video how women would sometimes give birth before an abortion procedure could be performed.
“I literally have had women come in, and they’ll go in the O.R. and they’re back out in three minutes,” she said, adding that “the fetus was already in the vaginal canal whenever we put her [the mother] in the stirrups, it just fell out.”
Larton also described how “they induce fetal demise at about 18 to 20 weeks,” but when asked if the babies were administered digoxin she replied “no, no, no, no, no.”
In addition, O’Donnell said she had witnessed correspondence between a doctor and worker that a “fully-intact fetus” had been procured and they “were sending it straight to the lab.”In a previous video released by the Center for Medical Progress, one Planned Parenthood doctor said that mothers sometimes give birth before an abortion can be performed.
“Sometimes, if we get, if someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure, then we are intact, but that’s not what we go for. We try for that to not happen,” Dr. Savita Ginde, vice president and medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, said in an undercover video released July 30, of providing tissue procurement companies with “intact” body parts of aborted babies.
CNA reached out to Planned Parenthood for comment on the Aug. 19 video, but did not receive a response.
O’Donnell said that the experience of seeing and dissecting a developed fetus with a beating heart shook her. After transferring the baby’s brain and body for research transport and disposal, she said “that was the moment I knew I couldn’t work for the company anymore.”
She said that she held the fetus afterwards in her hands. “It’s pretty hard knowing you’re the only person who’s ever going to hold that baby,” she reflected.
The Aug. 19 video is the seventh released by the Center for Medical Progress. Previous undercover videos show Planned Parenthood and medical procurement officials discussing the collection and transfer of body parts from aborted fetuses, compensation and itemization of the parts, and possible alteration of abortion procedures to obtain more intact specimens.
The videos have sparked investigation and calls for the removal of funding from Planned Parenthood from both congressional and state legislators and officials. The organization receives more than $500 million a year from the federal government.
Planned Parenthood maintains that it has been acting within federal law, and that any donation of fetal organs of aborted babies are made with the mother’s consent and are not done for “valuable consideration.”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/is-planned-parenthood-aborting-babies-after-birth-51703/
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In a devastating new undercover video, released today by the Center for Medical Progress, the chief executive of an tissue-procurement company reports that Planned Parenthood supplies “a lot” of intact cadavers of aborted babies, and laughs at the shocked reactions of technicians who see the bodies.
Cate Dyer, the head of California-based StemExpress, tells an undercover interviewer that “lab techs freak out and have meltdowns” when they see the intact bodies of aborted babies. StemExpress had sought unsuccessfully to prevent release of the damaging video.
Dyer speaks at some length on the video about the business relationship between her company and Planned Parenthood, saying that “they are a volume institution.” She says that her company has a heavy demand for fetal tissues, which Planned Parenthood clinics can provide.
David Daleiden, who arranged the video recording for the Center for Medical Progress, remarks that StemExpress is the “weakest link” in the supply chain for fetal tissue, since the California company will “readily admit the profit motive that Planned Parenthood and their proxies have in supplying aborted baby parts.”
The Center for Medical Progress also notes that intact fetal cadavers, if they are to be suitable for medical research, are probably born alive before being harvested.
In the course of the video—the 8th in a series of exposes of the fetal-tissue business- Dyer also mentions that she has seen serious hygienic problems in some other abortion clinics. She refers to “rampant, rampant problems with bacteria” at clinics—apparently not those affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
In a related development, the Catholic Medical Association, the largest association of Catholic physicians and health-care professionals in the United States, has called upon the American Medical Association and all other medical organizations to condemn fetal organ trafficking.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25927
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Contact: Peter Robbio, probbio@crcpublicrelations.com, 703.683.5004
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1–The ninth video in the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal focuses on Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR), the small and secretive company that has harvested and sold fetal body parts at Planned Parenthood clinics longer than any other entity: http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2015/09/planned-parenthood-baby-parts-vendor-abr-pays-off-clinics-intact-fetuses-just-fell-out/
The video features undercover conversations with Dr. Katharine Sheehan, the long-time medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest until 2013; Perrin Larton, the Procurement Manager for ABR; and Cate Dyer, the CEO of rival fetal tissue procurement company StemExpress.
Sheehan tells actors posing as a new human biologics company that at Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest, “We have already a relationship with ABR.” Sheehan explains, “We’ve been using them for over 10 years, really a long time, just kind of renegotiated the contract. They’re doing the big collections for government-level collections and things like that.” When one of the actors negotiates, “We return a portion of our fees to the clinics,” Sheehan responds eagerly, “Right, get a toe in and make it, make a pro–alright.”
In an August 27 letter to Congress, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards referenced a California Planned Parenthood affiliate that currently receives $60 “per tissue specimen” from a tissue procurement organization. The Center for Medical Progress, the group producing the videos, identified Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest and ABR as the affiliate and TPO referred to in Richards’ letter, based on process of elimination.
“We now know from Cecile Richards’ letter that $60 per collected tissue specimen is what will ‘get a toe in’ to harvest baby parts at Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest,” wrote CMP Project Lead David Daleiden. As multiple tissue specimens often come from a single fetus, $60/specimen can quickly add up to hundreds of extra dollars in revenue per abortion. 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).
Perrin Larton, the Procurement Manager at ABR, is shown describing ABR’s fetal tissue harvesting practice to a prospective buyer. “I literally have had women come in and they’ll go in the O.R. and they’re back out in 3 minutes, and I’m going, ‘What’s going on?’ Oh yeah, the fetus was already in the vaginal canal whenever we put her in the stirrups, it just fell out,” she explains of situations where there has been a great enough degree of cervical dilation to procure an intact fetus.
ABR, founded in 1989 by CEO Linda Tracy, charges $340 per second-trimester fetal tissue specimen, yet seems less concerned about tissue quality than other harvesting companies: “Whenever we have a smooth portion of liver, we think that’s good!” says Larton.
Cate Dyer, who used to work as a procurement technician for ABR before founding her own company StemExpress, shares some of the financial details of ABR: “They were funding places in Hawaii for themselves,” she divulges. “Some staff–not that I know so much on the Planned Parenthood side, but I wouldn’t be surprised–there are some staff in the past that have been on the payroll with ABR.” According to Dyer, ABR would pay an “advisor fee” to a clinic manager or director in order to preserve their exclusive right to harvest fetal tissue at that location. “There’s like, well enough known,” says Dyer, that “for a long time there were certain clinics that because they had paid advisors that were sitting on boards for these clinics, that were also an advisor to ABR, you were just never going to go anywhere with them, you know what I mean?”
“In the twisted world of baby parts trafficking from Planned Parenthood abortion clinics, there are few unbroken rules,” notes CMP’s Daleiden. “After the serious admissions in Planned Parenthood’s letter to Congress last week, it is imperative for lawmakers and law enforcement to act decisively to determine the full extent of Planned Parenthood and their proxies’ lawbreaking, hold them accountable, and stop the taxpayer funding of these barbaric atrocities against humanity.”
http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2015/09/planned-parenthood-baby-parts-vendor-abr-pays-off-clinics-intact-fetuses-just-fell-out/
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The Center for Medical Progress, which has released a series of damaging undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood’s involvement in the sale of fetal tissues, has now sent a letter to Congress, rebutting a Planned Parenthood defense of its policies.
“The Planned Parenthood report contains multiple erroneous statements and conclusions, yet by its own words finds no ‘substantive video manipulation’ and ‘no evidence of audio manipulation,’ the pro-life group observed in a press release.
In his letter to Congress, the Center for Medical Progress pointed out that Planned Parenthood had acknowledged that some clinics “may ‘adjust’ abortion procedures in order to obtain higher quality fetal tissue specimens.” That would be a violation of federal law, the group notes. Explaining the process of harvesting organs from aborted babies, the Center says that “this is a new revenue stream off of fetal tissue with no real cost to Planned Parenthood, and thus a criminal profit.”
The undercover videos released over the past several weeks have captured Planned Parenthood executives saying that they produce a large volume of fetal tissue for sale, and detailing how the income from these sales can be camouflaged to avoid giving clear evidence of a profitable business that would violate federal law.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25977
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Which politicians receive donations from planned parenthood?
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Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston has released a statement on the undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal organs.
“That Planned Parenthood Inc. claims that these atrocities are permissible under federal law is indicative of a moral breakdown in our society and shows the immoral depths to which some segments of our society continue to fall,” he said. “We implore well-meaning individuals everywhere to unite in our denunciation of these horrendous acts and call on the federal and local government not to pay a blind eye to these allegations, but to launch formal investigations into the organ harvesting claims against Planned Parenthood in light of these videos so that evil may not prevail.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=26064
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The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom last week released a 13-page report detailing cases when Planned Parenthood has been accused of failing to report sɛҳuąƖ abuse.
The report is part of the national push to defund Planned Parenthood, in wake of videos released this summer by the Center for Medical Progress, which expose the abortion giant’s use of fetal tissue.
Today was the first in a series of hearings in Congress regarding an investigation into Planned Parenthood.
The House Judiciary Committee is the first of three House committees scheduled to consider the issue.
Here is a sample of some of the cases noted in the ADF report:
Alabama
A Planned Parenthood affiliate in Mobile failed to properly report the suspected sɛҳuąƖ abuse of a 14-year-old girl. The girl was a mother of two and received two abortions from the clinic within a 6-month time frame.
Arizona
A 12-year-old girl in foster care was impregnated by her 23-year-old foster brother, who took the girl to Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona for an abortion. Planned Parenthood failed to report the abuse, which continued, until six months later, after he brought the girl back and Planned Parenthood had committed another abortion.
California
A long-time 61-year-old swim coach abused numerous young girls over the years, including one 14-year-old girl who went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion in the early 1980s. The abortion and the abuse evidently went unreported, and many other young girls were subsequently abused.
Colorado
A 13-year-old girl was brought to Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains by her abusive stepfather for an abortion. Despite different last names and requests for birth control made by the rapist, Planned Parenthood did not report any suspected abuse, performed the abortion and sent her home with her rapist who continued to abuse her.
and sent her home with her rapist who continued to abuse her.
Connecticut
A 14-year-old girl was impregnated by a 21-year-old three times in six months. Each time, she was taken to the Planned Parenthood clinic in Norwich for an abortion. Planned Parenthood’s failure to report the first statutory rape allowed the abuse to continue.
Minnesota
A 42-year-old man was prosecuted for sɛҳuąƖly abusing his son's 14-year-old girlfriend. At one point, he took her to Planned Parenthood to get birth control, which was evidently not reported to authorities.
Ohio
A 16-year-old who was impregnated by her biological father visited a local Planned Parenthood. She told a Planned Parenthood employee that she had been forced to have sex and to do things she did not want to do, but Planned Parenthood failed to report the abuse to authorities.
http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/report-shows-planned-parenthood-s-failure-to-report-sɛҳuąƖ-abuse
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In the 10th in a series of undercover videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), executives of Planned Parenthood speak candidly about the damaging effects their organization would suffer if the public learned about their involvement in the sale of body parts from aborted babies.
“This is important,” says Vanessa Cullins, a vice president of Planned Parenthood, speaking to others active in the abortion industry. “This could destroy your organization and us, if we don’t time those conversations correctly.”
Deborah VanDerhei, Planned Parenthood’s national director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers, says that abortionists must be very careful in explaining their sale of body parts “because the headlines would be a disaster.” Carolyn Westhoff, the group’s senior medical adviser, recognizes “the potential for a huge PR issue in doing this.”
On the other hand, despite the threat of negative publicity—and the apparent violation of federal law against sale of fetal tissue—Planned Parenthood executives clearly do not wish to curtail their involvement in the practice. VanDerhei notes that the group has “independent colleagues who generate a fair amount of income doing this,” and says that the key challenge is “how we’re going to manage remuneration.” She concludes that sale of fetal tissues should be seen as “donation for remuneration.”
On the new video, Carolyn Westhoff speaks about the extensive involvement of abortionists with “people who want particular tissue: like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural.” She boasts: “Everything we provide is fresh.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=26132
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Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday in Simi Valley, California.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina drew raves from Republican and conservative observers Wednesday night with her answer to a question that dealt with the debate over funding for Planned Parenthood.
In the second prime-time Republican presidential debate, candidates sparred over whether Republicans in Congress should vote to defund the organization, even if it leads to a government shutdown. Planned Parenthood has come under intense scrutiny after the release of undercover videos that show Planned Parenthood executives discussing using aborted fetuses for research.
Some, including Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, argued that Republicans should wait until 2017 — when a Republican president could take office.
But others, such as Fiorina, said Republicans should take action now — and put the onus on President Barack Obama to veto a government-funding bill that defunds the organization. (The White House formally promised to do so on Wednesday.)
"I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.' This is about the character of our nation. If we will not stand up and force President Obama to veto this bill, shame on us!" Fiorina said, drawing raucous applause.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/carly-fiorina-just-gave-answer-012847034.html
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A federal appeals court has barred a district court judge from issuing an injunction to stop the release of undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the group that has exposed the Planned Parenthood scandal.
In July, Judge William Orrick issued a temporary restraining order against the release of CMP videos of a meeting organized by the National Abortion Federation. That temporary order remains in effect, but CMP won a partial victory when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Judge Orrick could not issue an injunction to extend the order indefinitely. The appeals court also ruled that Judge Orrick could not require CMP to disclose information about its videos to the National Abortion Federation.
In a related development, a Congressional committee moved to circuмvent the restraining order on the CMP videos by issuing a subpoena for all of the undercover footage. The subpoena from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would force disclosure of the footage that the restraining order has blocked from public release.
The temporary restraining order applies only to footage involving the National Abortion Federation. CMP has continued to release undercover videos of other groups—particularly Planned Parenthood—that are involved in the harvesting of fetal tissues.
David Daleiden, the head of the CMP effort, has vowed that his group will take its case to the US Supreme Court, if necessary, to ensure the eventual release of all its undercover reports.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=26161
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How much does planned parenthood donate to politicians? And to which politicians?
How much does the Muslim brotherhood donate to politicians? And to which politicians.
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A federal judge in California has ruled that the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) can submit its undercover videos of Planned Parenthood and other abortion-industry groups to a Congressional investigating committee.
The National Abortion Federation (NAF) had brought suit to prevent the release of the undercover videos, and had asked the court to block the CMP from complying with a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee.
In his October 6 ruling, Judge William Orrick recognized that a Congressional committee has its own power to subpoena evidence, “and it is not up to the courts to go beyond the narrow confines of determining the committee’s inquiry is in its province.”
However, Judge Orrick also ruled that the CMP must also turn over all video evidence to the NAF, which has won a temporary restraining order against public release of videos from its annual meeting. Judge Orrick said that he granted that request because he was persuaded that public disclosure of the material from the NAF meeting could cause irreparable harm to members of the pro-abortion group.
The judge ruled, however, that handing the videos over to a Congressional committee did not constitute public disclosure.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=26345
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In a new undercover video from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), a Planned Parenthood abortionist speaks about her efforts to harvest intact heads from unborn babies. In the 11th video of the shocking CMP series, Dr. Amna Dermish, who performs abortions for Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas, describes how she works to harvest fetal brains. “My aim is usually to get the specimens out pretty intact,” she says. Dr. Dermish reveals that she sometimes changes her abortion technique in order to harvest organs. She says that harvesting an intact brain is difficult, but “something to strive for.” The latest CMP video comes as state leaders in Texas are moving to block funding for Planned Parenthood. Governor Greg Abbott has said that the state now has “hard evidence” that Planned Parenthood has violated state and federal law in harvesting fetal organs for sale.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=26534
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The Center for Medical Progress has released a new undercover video showing the involvement of abortion providers in the sale of fetal body parts.
In the latest in a series of exposés, the Center's video records Jennefer Russo, the medical director of Planned Parenthood in Orange Country, California, explaining how her clinic works to harvest intact bodies of unborn children, sometimes altering the method of abortion to ensure that a full body is secured.
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=27663
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The National Catholic Register profiles David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress, whose undercover videos have exposed the sale of fetal tissues and generated a surge of indignation against Planned Parenthood.
The two shocking videos that have already been made public represent only a part of the group’s work, Daleiden reveals. There will be more videos coming, perhaps each week: a total of about a dozen.
Daleiden explains his commitment to the pro-life cause and his horror at the sale of organs taken from aborted babies. “They are saying that some unborn babies are more valuable dead than alive,” he remarks. “It’s a terrible, barbaric place for a democratic society to go.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25615
Wow Poche that is horrible! what is wrong with the world
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The National Catholic Register profiles David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress, whose undercover videos have exposed the sale of fetal tissues and generated a surge of indignation against Planned Parenthood.
The two shocking videos that have already been made public represent only a part of the group’s work, Daleiden reveals. There will be more videos coming, perhaps each week: a total of about a dozen.
Daleiden explains his commitment to the pro-life cause and his horror at the sale of organs taken from aborted babies. “They are saying that some unborn babies are more valuable dead than alive,” he remarks. “It’s a terrible, barbaric place for a democratic society to go.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25615
Wow Poche that is horrible! what is wrong with the world
It has Satan as its prince.
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The evil is starting to fight back;
Police in California searched the apartment of David Daleiden-- the man responsible for a series of videos exposing the sale of fetal tissue through Planned Parenthood-- on April 5.
The search of Daleiden's apartment was authorized by the state's attorney general, Kamal hαɾɾιs, who has been investigating the production of the undercover videos. In a statement released after the search, Dalaiden said that while officers had seized all of the videos in his apartment, "they ignored docuмents showing the illicit scheme between StemExpress and Planned Parenthood."