In the Market for Fetal Body Parts, a Baby’s Brain Sells for $3,340

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Heritage Foundation:

Republicans on the special House panel investigating the transfer of fetal tissue from aborted babies will present evidence in a hearing today that breaks down the price per body part.

 

With release of this evidence, Republicans say, they have enough documentation to show that several abortion clinics and middleman procurement businesses may have violated federal law.

 

“It is just horrifying,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who leads the House’s investigation of the fetal tissue industry, told The Daily Signal. “They are putting a dollar value on these organs from these children—unborn children that have been aborted. It is just beyond belief.”

 

According to Republicans involved in the investigation, a researcher paid a middleman procurement company $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.”

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Three former U.S. prosecutors say fetal-tissue profiteering probe is warranted

 

Three former federal prosecutors testified Wednesday that a federal investigation is warranted into whether a California medical procurement company and abortion clinics are illegally profiting from aborted fetal tissue.

 

“Based on my review of the exhibits, a competent, ethical federal prosecutor could 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,” said Brian P. Lennon, a former federal prosecutor in Michigan and Virginia.

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/20/three-former-us-prosecutors-say-fetal-tissue-profi/

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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.

 

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.

 

http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/21/11-quick-takeaways-from-house-hearing-on-aborted-baby-parts-trafficking/