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Ed Morrissey

July 14, 2015

 

Live Action today features another exposé of Planned Parenthood, but this time it’s not just one clinic violating state laws on reporting or practices. The Center for Medical Progress conducted an undercover investigation into PP’s operations in sales of fetal body parts, a practice prohibited by federal law, and they went to the executive management of the abortion-mill chain to uncover it. Senior Director of Medical Services Dr. Deborah Nucatola happily discussed the profit off of these sales — over a meal:

 

 

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The price that the so-called “products of conception” fetch can run from $30 to $100 per specimen, according to Nucatola. That means that Planned Parenthood profits from killing babies by charging the patients, and then from harvesting their corpses by selling them. “A lot of people want liver,” Nucatola tells the undercover investigator, so Planned Parenthood trains its people to use the forceps to leave the abdomen intact. They even maneuver the baby into the breech position, using ultrasound, in order to facilitate their gruesome harvest.

 

Remind me again why the federal government funds these ghouls? And be sure to wake me when the Obama administration orders an investigation into Planned Parenthood’s systemic and organized criminal conduct. Nucatola even describes how they subvert the law and use the kind of “buffers” one usually sees in organized crime to keep the bosses safe. In any other administration, this would prompt a RICO investigation — and it should.

 

Update: This tweet from our good friend at Popehat is worth noting:

 

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Planned Parenthood responds: Nucatola’s just talking about reimbursements!; Update: Jindal orders LA probe, halt to PP license

 

It took a few hours for Planned Parenthood to respond to the Center for Medical Progress exposé earlier today. LifeNews reports that their VP for communications wants everyone to know there’s no real story here. This is just business as usual. Trust them:

 

 

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Statement from Eric Ferraro, Vice President of Communications, Planned Parenthood Federation of America:

 

“In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, treatments and cures for serious diseases. Women at Planned Parenthood who have abortions are no different. At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards. There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or Planned Parenthood. In some instances, actual costs, such as the cost to transport tissue to leading research centers, are reimbursed, which is standard across the medical field.

 

“A well-funded group established for the purpose of damaging Planned Parenthood’s mission and services has promoted a heavily edited, secretly recorded videotape that falsely portrays Planned Parenthood’s participation in tissue donation programs that support lifesaving scientific research. Similar false accusations have been put forth by opponents of abortion services for decades. These groups have been widely discredited and their claims fall apart on closer examination, just as they do in this case.”

 

 

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Update: Well, if the media wanted to ignore this, that may not be possible for much longer. A release by e-mail from Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana will escalate the story to the presidential race:

 

 


Today, Governor Jindal announced he is directing the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals to launch an investigation into Planned Parenthood after reports surfaced alleging some Planned Parenthood affiliates are using partial birth abortions to sell fetal body parts.

 

A video surfaced showing a Planned Parenthood Federation of America senior director describing how some Planned Parenthood employees are actively engaging in illegal partial birth abortion procedures and attempting to conduct these abortions so that they leave body parts intact so that they can later be sold on the open market.

 

Governor Jindal said, “Today’s video of a Planned Parenthood official discussing the systematic harvesting and trafficking of human body parts is shocking and gruesome. This same organization is seeking to open an abortion clinic in New Orleans. I have instructed Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals to conduct an immediate investigation into this alleged evil and illegal activity and to not issue any licenses until this investigation is complete. I am also asking the FBI to assist DHH in investigating this alleged criminal activity by this organization.”

 

 

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The Wine-Sipping Butchers of Planned Parenthood

 

 

Michele Malkin

 

 

 

Hannibal Lecter ain’t got nothing on the profit-maximizing abortion ghoul caught on tape hawking aborted baby parts as she swilled wine and nibbled on a gourmet salad.

In newly released undercover footage from the pro-life Center for Medical Progress, seasoned abortionist Dr. Deborah Nucatola, who serves as national senior director of “medical services” at Planned Parenthood, chitter-chattered eagerly about fulfilling the bloodthirsty demand for “intact hearts,” “lower extremities” and lungs.

Price tag? “You know, I would throw a number out,” she babbled breezily as she twirled her fork. “I would say it’s probably anywhere from $30 to $100” per specimen.

Hollywood couldn’t conjure monsters this chillingly, banally evil.

Nucatola exulted at how fetal livers have become trés chic: “A lot of people” want them.

She then spoke of the new hot trends in body-parts trafficking as if she were raving about the latest craze for crop tops or artisanal cheese.Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421201/planned-parenthood-fetus-sale-partial-birth-abortion

 

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This may be getting legs

 

WaPo: Undercover video shows Planned Parenthood official discussing fetal organs used for research

Sandhya Somashekhar and Danielle Paquette July 14 at 9:52 PM

 

An antiabortion group on Tuesday released an undercover video of an official at Planned Parenthood discussing in graphic detail how to abort a fetus to preserve its organs for medical research — as well as the costs associated with sharing that tissue with scientists.

 

Over lunch at a Los Angeles restaurant, two antiabortion activists posing as employees from a biotech firm met with Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical research. Armed with cameras, the activists recorded Nucatola talking about Planned Parenthood’s work donating fetal tissue to researchers and pressed her on whether the clinics were charging for the organs.

 

The Center for Medical Progress, which recorded and edited the video, says the footage proves that Planned Parenthood is breaking the law by selling fetal organs. But the video does not show Nucatola explicitly talking about selling organs. The Planned Parenthood official says the organization is “very, very sensitive” about being perceived as illegally profiting from organ sales and charges only for the cost, for instance, of shipping the tissue.

 

The video threatens to reignite a long-standing debate over the use of fetal tissue harvested through abortions and could add fuel to efforts seeking to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

 

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Gotta Love This From Gawker (well actually you don't.)

 

No, Planned Parenthood Is Not Selling Aborted Fetal Body Parts
Ashley Feinberg
7/14/15 6:15pm

 

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Of course, that doesn’t stop the people behind the video’s release from going to great lengths to try to paint Planned Parenthood as operating outside the law. According to The Center for Medical Progress’s accompanying release, “The video is the first by The Center for Medical Progress in its ‘Human Capital’ series, a nearly 3-year-long investigative journalism study of Planned Parenthood’s illegal trafficking of aborted fetal parts.”

 

While Planned Parenthood notes that the group is “a long time anti-abortion activist that has used deceptive and unethical video editing, and that has created a fake medical website as well as a fake human tissue website that purports to provide services to stem cell researchers.” (For what it’s worth, the Center for Medical Progress did finally release the full video, though its claims remain just as flawed.)

 

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According to Snopes, the man currently being credited as the “leader” of the Center for Medical Progress, David Daleiden, is directly linked to James O’Keefe—otherwise known as the right-wing zealot behind the heavily edited and profoundly misleading videos that instigated the ACORN controversy back in 2009.

 

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O'Keefe and Breitbart ACORN Videos 'Severely Edited'

 

The right-wing zealots were forced to release their unedited ACORN pimp tapes to California… Read more

 

According to a 2009 Claremont Conservativearticle (written by none other than everyone’s favorite alleged floor-shitter and conservative blogger Chuck Johnson):

 

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I'm waiting for the (evil ultra radical Koch Brothres to get involved)

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Planned Parenthood Is Accused of Harvesting Organs from Aborted Babies. Is that Illegal?
Ovide Lamontagne

July 14, 2015

 

The ugly business of abortion became even more abhorrent this week as a 30-month undercover operation revealed that Planned Parenthood’s heavily federally subsidized, billion-dollar-plus-a-year corporation seems also to be generating revenue by harvesting and selling body parts such as hearts, livers, lungs, and muscle tissue of aborted infants. The question becomes whether that is a crime. The answer under current federal law, one might say, depends on the definition of “valuable consideration” — because profiting from the sale of human remains is illegal.

 

The harvesting, sale, and ultimate use of the tissue and body parts of aborted fetuses is governed by a 1993 federal law passed when the United States Congress enacted 42 U.S.C. 289g, regulating fetal research in general. In particular, 42 U.S.C. 289g-2(a) makes it unlawful for any person “to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any fetal tissue for valuable consideration if the transfer affects interstate commerce” (emphasis added).

 

The law defines “valuable consideration” to exclude “reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue.”

 

In other words, under the law the Congress has prohibited the purchase or sale of fetal tissue for an amount of money (or other consideration) that exceeds the seller’s costs associated with transporting, implanting, processing, preserving, monitoring, and assuring quality control, or storage.

 

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The release of video from this undercover investigation raises serious questions about whether PPFA allegedly has been engaged in federal and state criminal activity, which demands a full-blown criminal investigation. Putting aside the potential criminal liability of PPFA in the trafficking of aborted-fetal tissue, this activity is simply wrong and egregious and shows yet again the profit-driven nature of PPFA under its business model.

 

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This may or may not be a legal practice, that is for the courts to decide. The reason Planned Parenthood and their allies have hit back so hard and so quickly is, this pulls back the curtain on certain practices in the "Pro-Choice" community. And a practice that many many people will find very very disturbing. Make no mistake Planned Parenthood Federation of America just took a Big Hit.

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Planned Parenthood Video Prompts Congressional Action

House speaker wants hearings on Planned Parenthood abortion video, wants Obama to criticize it.

ALAN FRAM, Associated Press

July 15, 2015 | 12:58 p.m. EDT

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The searing political conflict over abortion flared anew Wednesday as congressional Republicans said they will investigate whether Planned Parenthood is selling organs from aborted fetuses. House Speaker John Boehner called for committees to probe the question and said President Barack Obama should condemn and stop the practice.

 

The GOP offensive on the issue came a day after an anti-abortion group circulated a video it made secretly showing a Planned Parenthood official discussing the disposal of body parts from aborted fetuses.

 

"When an organization monetizes an unborn child — and with the cavalier attitude portrayed in this horrific video — we must all act," Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a brief written statement. He said Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell should "denounce, and stop, these gruesome practices."

 

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Minutes after Boehner released his statement, the House Energy and Commerce Committee said it would investigate the issue.

"This video is abhorrent and rips at the heart. The committee will get to the bottom of this appalling situation," said the panel, which is headed by Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich.

 

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This may or may not be a legal practice, that is for the courts to decide. The reason Planned Parenthood and their allies have hit back so hard and so quickly is, this pulls back the curtain on certain practices in the "Pro-Choice" community. And a practice that many many people will find very very disturbing. Make no mistake Planned Parenthood Federation of America just took a Big Hit.

 

 

Why Liberals Should Take the Planned Parenthood Video Seriously

The latest anti-abortion investigation into Planned Parenthood doesn’t prove any law breaking, but raises ethics questions and may lead to a larger debate over the organization’s funding.

Arit John

July 15 2015

 

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Ethics questions

 

But even if the legal accusations don’t hold up, Nucatola discusses how she and other providers potentially change the way they perform abortions when they have the needs of the research community in mind. “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,” she says in the video.

 

That has caused some doubts, even among people who support abortion rights. Laurie Zoloth, a professor of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University, told Reuters in an e-mail that while the video was “being used to inflame people about abortion,” it was “terribly disturbing” and “an obvious conflict of interest” that Nucatola seemed concerned about meeting the needs of a company, instead of focusing solely on the safety of the patient.

 

Erica Grieder, in a column for Texas Monthly, also raised concerns about the potential ethics violation. “When an organization like Planned Parenthood is caught up in controversy, there’s a natural tendency for its supporters, used to such controversies, to circle the wagons,” Grieder wrote. “In this case, I think that mentality would be counterproductive.”

 

Defunding Planned Parenthood

 

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Disgraced Planned Parenthood Official Has White House Links

 

 

Disgraced Planned Parenthood official Deborah Nucatola’s shocking personal work history is coming to light.

 

Records reveal that Nucatola was employed by a former White House staffer at the time that she was selling aborted baby fetus parts.

 

A staunch political advocate, Nucatola railed against the “right-wing” Bush administration. What’s more, she so enjoyed her work in the abortion industry that she touted a T-shirt celebrating a drug used in the practice.

 

Let’s break it down:

 

Works for a White House staffer

 

Nucatola is currently employed at Sexual Health Innovations, founded by former Obama White House staffer Jessica Ladd. Senior Obama administration officials sit on the board of the abortion activist group, including Praveen Basaviah of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and Kyle Bernstein of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The IRS-approved 501©3 tech nonprofit is a major Obama administration contractor.Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/17/disgraced-planned-parenthood-official-works-for-white-house-staff-her-right-wing-hatred-exposed/

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Rick Perry turns Planned Parenthood question back on reporter

T. Becket Adams • 7/16/15

 

A journalist had the tables turned on him Thursday morning after he asked former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to weigh in on the scandal this week involving a Planned Parenthood executive who was caught on tape discussing the group's practice of trafficking in the organs of aborted children.

 

The moment occurred as Bloomberg News' Mark Halperin questioned the governor during appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2KpO3Su6Qk

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Planned Parenthood: Genocide for Fun and Profit

Posted on July 17, 2015 by The Political Hat

 

Planned Parenthood, which was founded by genocidal eugenicist Margaret Sanger to eliminate inferior races and ethnicities, doesn’t just offer abortions for s**ts & giggles, but actually sells aborted baby parts:

 

“[ Dr. Deborah] Nucatola [, PPFA Senior Director of Medical Services,] oversees the abortion practices of all PPFA clinics, trains abortion doctors and performs abortions herself at a clinic in Los Angeles up to 24 weeks. While eating a salad in the video, she describes how she has a ‘huddle’ at the beginning of each day to figure out which scheduled abortions are most likely to yield the body parts needed for buyers, and then plan accordingly.

 

“‘For example, I had 8 cases yesterday,’ she says. ‘And I knew exactly what we needed, and I kinda looked at the list and I said, alright, this 17-weeker has 8 lams, and this one — So I knew which were the cases that were probably more likely to yield what we needed, and I made my decisions according to that too.’

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http://politicalhat.com/2015/07/17/planned-parenthood-genocide-for-fun-and-profit/

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If I watch this will my head hurt?

 

you need to watch and hear what comes out of here mouth

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If I watch this will my head hurt?

 

you need to watch and hear what comes out of here mouth

 

 

 

Evil often wears a pleasant face.

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Planned Parenthood’s Real Crime: Making Us Notice

 

Partial-birth abortion only gets the convicted a max of two years in jail, because we have not yet been able to face what we've been allowing.

 

by Andrew C. McCarthy

July 16, 2015 - 8:47 am

 

The struggle against infanticide was lost when the language battle was lost. What we call things determines how we think about them. How we think controls what we do … and what we tolerate.

 

“Infanticide” called it what it was: a homicide, a killing of a child who was no less possessed of human dignity for not yet having been born.

 

“Abortion” was a gentler term — still pejorative because the culture back then remained repulsed by infanticide; yet pregnant, as it were, with ambiguity about exactly what was being aborted — the child’s life, or the mother’s pregnancy? And with the abortionist generally being a doctor, “abortion” connoted that “pregnancy” was not about a life to be nourished but a medical condition to be treated.

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A “medical condition” is suggestive of illness, not life. then abortion became just one option on the menu of “choice.” And whose choice? Not the child whose life is ended.

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Will Americans finally rise up against their oppressors or will they continue—as did Nazi Germany—to ignore it and “hope” it gets better.

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So much lately the story of Sodom and Gomorrah keeps going through my head and how there are less and less 'righteous' for Abraham to find. I keep wondering how long it will be before there again will be none.

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FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD BLACK LIVERS MATTER

 

If you have ever witnessed one of those “spontaneous” pro-abortion demonstrations held in Washington whenever Congress contemplates curtailing taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, you may have noticed that there was something missing—African-American demonstrators. This is odd, considering that black women are far more likely to have abortions than are their Caucasian counterparts. And, examined in light of the now infamous video of a white Planned Parenthood official discussing how to crush a baby without damaging marketable livers and other organs, it is particularly ominous. Why? Because the terminated baby will probably have been black, and that is no coincidence.

 

Am I suggesting that Planned Parenthood purposely mines a specific minority group for “products of conception”? Yep. There has long been concern in the black community that this organization views African-Americans as grist for its abortion mills. Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has put it thus: “The most obvious practitioner of racism in the United States today is Planned Parenthood… founded by the eugenicist Margaret Sanger and recently documented as ready to accept money to eliminate black babies.” Her reference to money involves Planned Parenthood’s willingness to accept targeted donations for the abortion of African-American infants.

 

Dr. King’s conviction that Planned Parenthood is racist cannot be written off as paranoia or some wacky conspiracy theory. As columnist Star Parker has pointed out, “Analysis of 2010 census data… shows that 79 percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are located in walking distance of minority neighborhoods.” And this suspicious proximity has produced disturbing results. Arina Grossu reports in the Washington Times that “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Abortion Surveillance report revealed that… nearly 36 percent of all abortions in the United States were performed on black children, even though black Americans make up only 13 percent of our population.”Scissors-32x32.png

http://spectator.org/articles/63494/planned-parenthood-black-livers-matter

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