Judge Orders Planned Parenthood to Answer Questions About Fetal Tissue Business

San Francisco – Four California Planned Parenthood affiliates have been ordered by a Federal Magistrate Judge to answer written questions related to hard costs associated with their fetal tissue trade.

Federal Magistrate Donna M. Ryu ordered the Planned Parenthood affiliates on January 24, 2019, to give an explanation of their denial that the amount of money they received on a per-specimen basis did not exceed their hard costs. Planned Parenthood was further ordered to produce the written response within seven days.

Federal law prohibits the sale of aborted baby body parts “for valuable consideration,” but allows for reimbursement of hard costs incurred by the abortion businesses.

Planned Parenthood affiliates involved in the trade of aborted baby tissues and organs were:

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc.

Planned Parenthood Northern California.

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles.

Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest.

The order came as discovery is progressing in two federal court cases brought by Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation against the Center for Medical Progress and its members Troy Newman, Albin Rhomberg, Sandra Merritt, and David Daleiden for releasing undercover video that purports to show that Planned Parenthood illegally profited from the sale of tissues and organs procured from the bodies of babies aborted at Planned Parenthood facilities prior to June 2015.

Defendant Troy Newman is the President of Operation Rescue. He served on the founding board of the CMP during the investigative phase and the release of the explosive undercover videos that showed Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts, how procedures were altered to ensure intact organs, and haggling over top dollar for each specimen, because one abortionist wanted to buy a Lamborghini.

The pro-life defendants had submitted written questions to the four Planned Parenthood affiliates with Requests for Admission (RFAs) to numerous statements as a routine part of the discovery process.

The pro-life defendants learned through earlier discovery that four Planned Parenthood affiliates who participated in the “donation” of fetal tissue had “received money for fetal tissue on a per-specimen basis.” However, the affiliates “kept no contemporaneous accounting of any costs associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of the tissue.”

In fact, it was also learned through earlier RFAs that the Planned Parenthood affiliates “never attempted to determine the actual costs of their fetal tissue transfer program until after Defendants released the first videos in July 2015.”

“If Planned Parenthood never bothered to determine their costs, how could they known if they were in compliance with Federal law.” asked Newman. “It is a question that deserves an honest answer, because any amount of money that exceeds actual hard costs would implicate them in crimes.”

CMP investigations, including interviews with former StemExpress employee Holly O’Donnell, who worked as a procurement agent at Planned Parenthood abortion clinics, revealed that it was StemExpress employees embedded in the abortion facilities that handled the procurement, preservation, and shipping of aborted baby tissues and organs, and that Planned Parenthood had few if any hard costs associated with the handling of those baby parts.

https://www.operationrescue.org/archives/judge-orders-planned-parenthood-to-answer-questions-about-fetal-tissue-business/

Judge Ryu’s order

https://www.operationrescue.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ryu-Order-1-24-2019.pdf

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This was from nbcnews.com site but was a 404 … I found it on waybackmachine.

What is Planned Parenthood? And how exactly is it funded?

With 57 affiliates nationwide operating more than 600 health centers, Planned Parenthood has become the face of women's reproductive and abortion rights in the U.S.

The organization is the nation's leading abortion provider, with more than half of Planned Parenthood's health centers performing abortions.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S HISTORY

The organization that became Planned Parenthood began in Brooklyn, New York, in 1916, when Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth control movement and lifelong reproductive rights advocate, opened her first clinic. Police raided and shut down the clinic shortly after it opened, but Sanger went on to open the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan seven years later, according to Planned Parenthood's website. She eventually merged the bureau with the American Birth Control League to create Planned Parenthood.

From there, Planned Parenthood has steadily grown in reach and impact. In its annual report for 2016-17, the organization said it had provided health care services to nearly 2.4 million Americans.

In 2018, Cecile Richards, who had led the organization since 2006, stepped down as president.

Her departure came at a critical time for the abortion and contraception rights movement, amid efforts by some conservatives to cut both Planned Parenthood's federal funding and abortion access in general.

Richards was succeeded by Dr. Leana Wen, a physician who has said supporting abortion and reproductive rights is the organization's "core mission."

HOW IS PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDED?

The state of Planned Parenthood's funding has remained uncertain for years. Defunding the organization is a top priority for anti-abortion rights groups and

was one of Donald Trump's campaign promises during the 2016 presidential election.

Before leaving office, President Barack Obama finalized a regulation meant to protect Planned Parenthood's federal funding.

Since becoming president, Trump has made numerous attempts to defund the organization, including a proposal that would require facilities that provide abortions and related services to be physically separate from clinics that are funded with federal family-planning grants.

Planned Parenthood receives funding from several sources. Thirty-four percent of its funding comes in the form of federal government reimbursements and grants through programs such as Medicaid and Title X, according to the organization's 2017-2018 annual report.

Such federal funding can cover many of the health services Planned Parenthood provides, but it cannot cover abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or when the mother's life is in danger. The restriction is a result of the Hyde Amendment, which Congress passed in 1976 and prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion services in the U.S.

The majority of Planned Parenthood's federal funding comes from Medicaid, which provides health insurance for low-income Americans. Planned Parenthood patients receive services including birth control, cancer screenings and STD testing through Medicaid at low or no cost, depending on the patient's income and the state they live in. Planned Parenthood is then reimbursed by the federal government, according to its website.

Planned Parenthood also receives funding through Title X, the nation's family planning program. It's named for its section in the federal Public Health Service Act and became law in 1970.

Planned Parenthood affiliates serve 41 percent of Title X patients each year. That comes out to about 1.5 million patients who annually receive services like well-woman exams and HIV testing at Planned Parenthood clinics through the health care plan.

The organization also receives funding through reimbursements from patients' private insurance companies and from patients who pay out-of-pocket for their health care services.

Private donations and grants make up 38 percent of the organization's funding, according to its 2017-2018 annual report.

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Review the Congressional investigation on PP.

Be prepared for what you learn.

Next question - how are they allowed to operate?

These people are SICK!

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Fusion GPS was hired by Planned Parenthood to cover up evidence of selling baby parts.

Cecile Richards, who was serving as Planned Parenthood CEO at the time of the presidential campaign, was often seen on the campaign trail speaking in support of Clinton’s presidential candidacy.

Cecile Richard’s family are long-time friends with the George Soros family, one of Clinton’s biggest financial backers.

But Planned Parenthood’s connections with Clinton and the Democrat Party are not casual ones.

Why we can’t defund Planned Parenthood

Each year, the U.S. budget contains money for Planned Parenthood, which has increased every year due to support from nearly every Democrat in the House and Senate. And it is lots of money. In 2018, Planned Parenthood received a whopping $564.8 million in Federal tax dollars – a $20 million raise over the previous year.

Many of those same Democrats that aggressively defend funding Planned Parenthood has good reason. Planned Parenthood is a big donor to Democrat political campaigns. It is estimated that during the 2018 Mid-Term elections, Planned Parenthood recycled at least $30 million back into the campaign coffers of powerful Democrats that vote to give them money. (Some say that figure is actually closer to $65 million, including undisclosed campaign expenditures.)

So, many Democrats who support tax-funding for Planned Parenthood are actually just voting to fund themselves! This is why it is so difficult to get the votes to strip Planned Parenthood of all public funding.

https://www.operationrescue.org/archives/down-the-rabbit-hole-planned-parenthoods-texas-setback-and-its-surprising-implications/