Today, the Center for Medical Progress released the ninth in a series of videos aimed at exposing collusion between Planned Parenthood and tissue procurement clinics for the sale of fetal tissue.
This video features a new player. Until 2013, Dr. Katharine Sheehan was Planned Parenthood’s Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, and in the video, we see her describing Planned Parenthood’s relationship with fetal procurement outlet ABR. We also see ABR Procurement Manager Perrin Larton getting into graphic detail about how her company manages to secure intact fetal specimens.
Watch:
From LifeNews:
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.”Perrin Larton, the Procurement Manager at ABR, is shown describing ABR’s fetal tissue harvesting practice to a prospective buyer.She explains of situations where there has been a great enough degree of cervical dilation to procure an intact fetus: “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.”“And they have a smell. It’s just, it’s not right. It’s kind of icky,” Larton says of babies who have been killed with the drug digoxin, which doesn’t allow Planned Parenthood to sell them for their body parts.At one point in the video, Larton gives the undercover acts two thumbs up — saying “We think that’s good” when body parts are easily obtainable from fully intact aborted babies.
At around the 7 minute mark, we see StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer describing the ins and outs of how ABR operates. She should know—she worked for them before founding StemExpress:
“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?”
How entrepreneurial.
As I’ve said previously, these videos are less graphic when it comes to the pictures popping up on the screen, but they’re also more damning when it comes to the legal ramifications of what these clinics are doing.
Right now, two House Committees are investigating the evidence contained in these videos in an effort to pinpoint which federal laws may have been broken. There’s a lot of evidence to cover—LifeNews has a great breakdown of all 9 videos released so far—but give this one time.
Being able to nail Planned Parenthood for this will be well worth the wait.
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