Planned Parenthood Caught Selling Body Parts of
Aborted Fetuses in Undercover Video
After a 3-Year Investigative Journalism
Study of Planned Parenthood, The Center for Medical Progress released
its videotaped exposé filmed on July 25, 2014. The video shows two
actors posing as employees of a human biologics company discussing with
Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Senior
Director of Medical Services, how Planned Parenthood sells the body
parts of aborted fetuses, using partial-birth abortions to supply intact
body parts.
Here is the video which has quickly gone
viral on YouTube:
Planned Parenthood denies that they are
selling fetal body parts, and claims that the money discussed is related
to transportation costs and that “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.”
LifeNews reports that after only 1.5
hours after the video went live, Dr. Deborah Nucatola “deleted her
Twitter account to avoid criticism and investigation.”
Since the edited version of the video (8
minutes, 51 seconds) has been criticized by Planned Parenthood as being
“heavily edited” to “damage their mission and services,” the Center for
Medical Progress provided the FULL unedited 2 hour and 42 minute video
to “expose every detail of Planned Parenthood’s mission and services”:
FULL FOOTAGE VIDEO: Planned
Parenthood Uses Partial-Birth Abortions to Sell Baby Parts
Ethics and Legality of Planned
Parenthood’s “Services” Being Questioned
While eating lunch and sipping wine,
abortionist Dr. Deborah Nucatola nonchalantly discussed procedures that
have many people concerned about the ethics and legality of these
“services” being provided by Planned Parenthood. The conversation below,
describing the use of ultrasound guidance to change the presentation of
the fetus from vertex (head first) to breech (feet first) before intact
extraction so as not to crush the fetal part they need, is descriptive
of illegal partial-birth abortion procedure according to 18 U.S.C. 1531.
While discussing details of pre-ordering
specific fetal parts, the undercover buyers ask, “How
much of a difference can that actually make, if you know kind of what’s
expected, or what we need?”
“It makes a huge difference,”
Nucatola replies. “I’d say a lot of people want liver. And for that
reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance,
so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps. The kind of
rate-limiting step of the procedure is calvarium. Calvarium—the
head—is basically the biggest part.”
Nucatola explains: “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.”
“And with the calvarium, in general,
some people will actually try to change the presentation so that
it’s not vertex,” she continues. “So if you do it starting from the
breech presentation, there’s dilation that happens as the case goes
on, and often, the last step, you can evacuate an intact calvarium
at the end.”
To justify the methods employed by
Planned Parenthood to get around the federal ban on partial birth
abortion, Nucatola says the laws are up to interpretation:
“The Federal [Partial Birth]
Abortion Ban is a law, and laws are up to interpretation. So, if I
say on day one, I do not intend to do this, what ultimately
happens doesn’t matter.”
Nucatola discussed how she plans her day
according to specific orders, and how these orders can change the way
the abortions are done:
“For example, so I had 8 cases
yesterday. And I knew exactly what we needed, and I kinda looked at
the list and said okay, this 17-weeker has 8 lams, and this one — so
I knew which were the cases that were more probably likely to yield
what we needed, and I made my decisions according to that, too, so
it’s worth having a huddle at the beginning of the day and that’s
what I do.”
Selling and buying fetal body parts is
against federal law, a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in
prison and a fine of up to $500,000 according to 42 U.S.C. 289g-2, but
this seems equally up to interpretation as long as the fee charged is
justifiable when anyone asks, according to Nucatola. When asked about
pricing for fetal body parts, she answered:
“You know, I would throw a number
out, and I would say it’s probably anywhere from $30 to $100 [per
specimen] depending on the facility and what’s involved.” She
continued, “It’s really just about if anyone were ever to ask them,
‘What do you do for this $60? How can you justify that? Or are you
basically just doing something completely egregious, that you should
be doing for free.’ So it just needs to be justifiable.”
Nucatola further explains how that in
order to limit liability to Planned Parenthood, their litigation and law
department doesn’t want to be the middle people for this issue right
now. She explains:
“Unless the composition of the
Supreme Court changes anytime soon, we don’t want to be raising
eyebrows. But I will tell you that behind closed doors, these
conversations are happening with affiliates.”
Planned Parenthood’s “Services”
Historically Rooted to Eugenics
As Mainstream Media downplays the
horrific video, and Planned Parenthood cries that they have been
misrepresented, Briebert re-published the recorded historical motivation
of Planned Parenthood’s “services.”
As the article explains, “Planned
Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a pro-Nazi racist, whose
‘motives had nothing to do with liberating women or women’s rights, she
was a eugenicist — someone who believed that through abortion, birth
control, and forced sterilization society could “assist the [human] race
in the elimination of the unfit.’“
In her essay “Birth Control and Racial
Betterment,” Sanger expounds:
“We who advocate Birth Control lay
all our emphasis upon stopping not only the reproduction of the
unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there is not economic
means of providing proper care for those who are born in health.”
According to Sanger’s article “Human
Conservation And Birth Control,” the “unfit” included those suffering
from, “congenital feeble-mindedness; schizophrenia, circular insanity;
heredity epilepsy; hereditary chorea (Huntington’s)’ hereditary
blindness or deafness; grave hereditary bodily deformity and chronic
alcoholism.”
And she further stated:
“Surely everyone will agree that the
children of parents so afflicted are no contribution to the nation
for even if they do not inherit these defects they are children of
parents so handicapped that life will give them little, owing to
their necessarily bad environment.”
Sanger expresses her disdain of black
people in her essay titled “What Every Girl Should Know”:
“It is said that the aboriginal
Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a
step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little
sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from
obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets. According to one
writer, the rapist has just enough brain development to raise him
above the animal, but like the animal, when in heat knows no law
except nature which impels him to procreate whatever the result.
Every normal man and Woman has the power to control and direct his
sexual impulse. Men and women who have it in control and constantly
use their brain cells in thinking deeply, are never sensual.”
Briebert’s article concludes:
Sanger’s and Planned Parenthood’s
racist history is not a secret, for obvious political reasons, it is
just not widely reported by the same media that obsesses over a
flag. The Confederate Flag is down. The taxpayer-funded Planned
Parenthood still stands, primarily in black neighborhoods — just as
its racist founder planned so many years ago.
Public Tax Funds Supporting Planned
Parenthood Criticized
David Daleiden, who led the undercover
project, calls for politicians to stop using tax-payer money for the
“barbaric abortion business.” He says:
“Planned Parenthood’s criminal
conspiracy to make money off of aborted baby parts reaches to the
very highest levels of their organization. Elected officials must
listen to the public outcry for Planned Parenthood to be held
accountable to the law and for our tax dollars to stop underwriting
this barbaric abortion business.”
In an online petition, he urges citizens
to voice their concerns:
“Trafficking in aborted baby parts
is a national problem that crosses state and national lines and
implicates multiple organizational layers of Planned Parenthood, the
National Abortion Federation, and numerous middleman companies. Sign
our petition and ask your representative for Congress to investigate
the black market in aborted baby parts.”
In response to the disturbing
investigative video, Live Action President Lila Rose, who has been
actively investigating unlawful practices of Planned Parenthood for
years, states:
“This investigation by the Center
for Medical Progress reveals the unimaginable horror that is Planned
Parenthood. The exploitation of human life, the cover-up, and the
black market profiteering by America’s largest abortion chain is not
only egregious and heartbreaking, but exposes how the abortion giant
is corrupt to the core — from the CEO, Cecile Richards, down to the
local clinic. As Live Action has investigated through the years,
Planned Parenthood’s barbaric practices reveal their contempt for
rule of law and human life. This latest expose of Planned
Parenthood’s trafficking of baby parts for profit should be the
final nail in the coffin for the abortion giant. Congress must take
immediate action to stop all taxpayer funding of Planned
Parenthood and end the bankrolling of this horrific human rights
abuser.”
Some Presidential Candidates Voice
Outrage and Demand the Defunding of Planned Parenthood
As Live Action News reports,
Presidential Candidates have already begun responding to this shocking
news.
After viewing the video, Governor Jindal
made an announcement on his official page:
“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.”
Texas Senator and Presidential
Candidate, Ted Cruz, released a statement calling for Congress to
investigate and defund Planned Parenthood regarding recent reports about
selling body parts of aborted babies:
“Today’s news regarding allegations
that Planned Parenthood is possibly selling the body parts of the
babies it has aborted is sickening.
There is no place for taxpayer
funding of organizations that profit from taking away innocent life,
much less profiting off the bodies of the lives they have stolen.
Congress should immediately begin an investigation of Planned
Parenthood’s activities regarding the sale and transfer of aborted
body parts, including who is obtaining them and what they are being
used for. And it should renew efforts to fully defund Planned
Parenthood to ensure that its morally bankrupt business receives not
one penny of taxpayer money.
I proudly stand on the side of life
and remain committed to fighting for all innocent life to be valued
and protected under the laws of this nation.”
Presidential Candidate and former Texas
Governor Rick Perry, said in his statement:
“The video showing a Planned
Parenthood employee selling the body parts of aborted children is a
disturbing reminder of the organization’s penchant for profiting off
the tragedy of a destroyed human life. It is because of stories like
this that I signed legislation defunding Planned Parenthood in the
state of Texas – to protect human life and the health and safety of
Texans.”
Presidential Candidate Ben Carson is
also calling for Congress to stop funding Planned Parenthood with an
online petition:
“I, like many of you, was sickened
when I saw the video of Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood
secretly videotaped discussing selling aborted baby parts. I was
more than sickened, I was enraged.
Congress must act NOW! Please sign
my petition to Congress demanding that they stop all public funds to
Planned Parenthood.
I spent my whole life caring for
children. What I see in this video is barbaric. Congress must ACT!”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also
Tweeted his condemnation, calling it “Grotesque,” and also called for
defunding of Planned Parenthood.
And pro-life Sen. Rick Santorum Tweeted
his support to defund Planned Parenthood:
“Always have been and always will be
in favor of defunding @PPact & their destruction and now
exploitation of human life.”
Kentucky Senator and Presidential
Candidate Rand Paul joins the rally to defund Planned Parenthood and
calls supporters to do the same. After the release of an investigative
video that has gone viral he stated:
“Despite their best efforts, I doubt
our national media will succeed in covering this story up.
But I’m afraid that’s not enough.
It’s time for the American people to demand Congress take action.
If you agree, I hope you’ll
sign your “Stand for Life: Defund Planned Parenthood” Petition
immediately!
Congress holds the power of the
purse. So this is one measure Congress can take now — even with
President Obama in the White House.
And it’s up to you and me to ensure
my colleagues in Congress take action, and set the stage for a
pro-life President to sign even more pro-life legislation into law
once elected.
No one else will do it for us.
After all, where is the media now?
Where’s the storm over this video
that shows this Planned Parenthood executive bragging about
performing banned partial-birth abortions and selling babies’ body
parts for profit?”
While many other Presidential Candidates
are calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood, Hillary Clinton
appears to remain silent on the recent news.
The Federalist reminds us of Hillary
Clinton’s strong ties to the eugenics’ organization of Planned
Parenthood. Hillary Clinton “scored a perfect 100 percent on all of
Planned Parenthood’s congressional scorecards,” and was welcomed “with
open arms” when she announced her 2016 Candidacy.
In their article titled Watch
Hillary Praise Planned Parenthood’s Eugenicist Founder Margaret Sanger, you
can watch her praise Planned Parenthood in 2009 when she received the
Margaret Sanger Award in this video: