Human Capital - Episode 1: Planned Parenthood's Black Market in Baby Parts
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
#PPSellsBabyParts EX-CLINIC WORKER REVEALS
PROFIT MOTIVE IN PLANNED PARENTHOOD
BABY PARTS
SALES, VP MEDICAL DIRECTOR PRICES
BODY PARTS “
PER ITEM”
“
We Can See How Much We Can
Get Out of It,” says
Planned Parenthood Affiliate VP;
Whistleblower Who Harvested
Aborted Baby Parts
Details Traumatic Job in Planned Parenthood Clinics in New
Documentary Web
Series
Contact:
Peter Robbio, probbio@crcpublicrelations.com, 703.683.5004
LOS ANGELES, July 28--The first episode in a new documentary web series features a woman who once worked in Planned Parenthood clinics describing the profit motive involved in
Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted fetal body parts, and includes new admissions from top-level Planned Parenthood leadership about the illicit pricing structure.
The “
Human Capital” documentary web series is produced by
The Center for Medical Progress and integrates expert interviews, eyewitness accounts, and real-life undercover interactions to tell the story of Planned Parenthood’s commercial exploitation of aborted fetal tissue.
Episode 1, “Planned Parenthood’s
Black Market in Baby Parts,” launches today at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2xi9mhmuo
Episode 1 introduces
Holly O’Donnell, a licensed phlebotomist who unsuspectingly took a job as a “procurement technician” at the fetal tissue company and biotech start-up StemExpress in late
2012. “I thought I was going to be just drawing blood, not procuring tissue from aborted fetuses,” says O’Donnell, who fainted in shock on her first day of work in a Planned Parenthood clinic when suddenly asked to dissect a freshly-aborted fetus during her on-the-job training.
For 6 months, O’Donnell’s job was to identify pregnant women at Planned Parenthood who met criteria for fetal tissue orders and to harvest the fetal body parts after their abortions. O’Donnell describes the financial benefit Planned Parenthood received from StemExpress: “For whatever we could procure, they would get a certain percentage. The main nurse was always trying to make sure we got our specimens. No one else really cared, but the main nurse did because she knew that Planned Parenthood was getting compensated.”
Episode 1 also shows undercover video featuring the
Vice President and
Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of the
Rocky Mountains (
PPRM) in
Denver, CO, Dr. Savita
Ginde. PPRM is one of the largest and wealthiest Planned Parenthood affiliates and operates clinics in
Colorado,
New Mexico,
Wyoming, and
Nevada. Standing in the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic pathology laboratory, where fetuses are brought after abortions, Ginde concludes that payment per organ removed from a fetus will be the most beneficial to Planned Parenthood: “I think a per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.”
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).
Dr.
Katherine Sheehan, Medical Director emerita of Planned Parenthood of the
Pacific Southwest in
San Diego, describes her affiliate’s long-time relationship with Advanced Bioscience Resources, a middleman company that has been providing aborted fetal organs since
1989: “We’ve been using them for over 10 years, really a long time, you know, just kind of renegotiated the contract. They’re doing the big government-level collections and things like that.”
“Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby parts is an offensive and horrifying reality that is widespread enough for many people to be available to give first-person testimony about it,” notes
David Daleiden,
Project Lead for The Center for Medical Progress. “CMP’s investigative journalism work will continue to surface more compelling eyewitness accounts and primary source evidence of Planned Parenthood’s trafficking and selling baby parts for profit. There should be an immediate moratorium on Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding while
Congress and the states determine the full extent of the organization’s lawbreaking.”
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See the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2xi9mhmuo
Tweet: #PPSellsBabyParts
For more information on the Human Capital project, visit centerformedicalprogress.org.
The Center for Medical Progress is a
501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to monitoring and reporting on medical ethics and advances.