Planned Parenthood officials have once again been caught admitting that they harvest fresh baby organs, including eyes and genitals, and "generate a fair amount of income" as a result.
What's even more damning is that the officials seem to take pride in what they're doing, the pro-life group Center for Medical Progress (CMP) said as it released its latest sting video on the activities of America's biggest abortion service provider.
The video is the fourth in the CMP's "Human Capital" series. It tagged Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, who is the senior medical advisor for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), for boasting to undercover investigators that they are able to extract several organs from aborted babies, according to Life Site News.
"We've just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural...Oh my God, gonads," Dr. Westhoff said in the video. "Everything we provide is fresh."
She then offered to introduce the undercover buyers to "national office abortion people" in order to facilitate their specific purchases, but she warned them that discretion must always be observed.
"Obviously, we would have the potential for a huge PR (public relations) issue in doing this," Westhoff said.
Other industry officials, such as Deborah VanDerhei, the director of Planned Parenthood's Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAP) agreed with Westhoff, who added: "It's an issue that you might imagine we're not really that comfortable talking about on e-mail."
VanDerhei also said their independent colleagues "generate a fair amount of income doing this."
CMP said this undermines the claims continuously made by Planned Parenthood officials that they are not making any money out of its "foetal tissue donation" programme since they consider it more as a "humanitarian undertaking."
Moreover, Vanessa Russo, compliance programme administrator for Planned Parenthood Keystone in Pennsylvania, said in the video that they defend the practice wholeheartedly. "A company like this that wants to give our organisation money for the tissue – I think that that's a valid exchange, and that's okay," she insisted. "We feel like we can't consent to be bullied by ridiculous laws."
The US statutory law considers it a federal felony to receive "valuable consideration" or any economic profit in exchange for human organs. And since the continuous release of sting videos made by the CMP, the government-funded Planned Parenthood has vehemently denied receiving any.
Despite what Russo said, Dr. Vanessa Cullins, vice president for external medical affairs for PPFA, still expressed concern for the risks involved in trading organs. "This could destroy your organisation and us, if we don't time those conversations correctly," she warned.
VanDerhei added that she has been carefully managing the potential fallout with the abortion industry as a whole, and has "been talking to the executive director of the National Abortion Federation. We're trying to figure this out as an industry, about how we're going to manage remuneration, because the headlines would be a disaster."
David Daleiden, project lead for the CMP, hopes that their undercover videos will open the eyes of Americans and spur them to take action against the illegal and inhumane practices being conducted by the abortion service provider. "Planned Parenthood runs their abortion and baby parts business in open disregard for the law and should be prosecuted immediately," he said.
"From e-mail blackouts to contorted oxymorons like 'donation for remuneration,' the lengths to which Planned Parenthood leadership will go to cover up their illegal sale of aborted baby parts are nothing less than the desperation of a guilty conscience," Daleiden added.
He believes that the tax money being used to fund Planned Parenthood should instead go to federally qualified health centres, "which provide more and comprehensive health services at locations outnumbering Planned Parenthood 20 to 1," Daleiden said.
