'''Prohibiting Trafficking of Baby Body Parts

and Federal Funding for Fetal Tissue Research from Induced Abortions'''

The House of Representatives in the 114th Congress responded to the CMP videos by establishing the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives in October 2015 to examine these grotesque practices. The Select Panel uncovered widespread unethical and illegal practices involving the trafficking of baby body parts from abortion businesses to sellers via fetal tissue procurement companies acting like middlemen.

For example, ABR was investigated and appeared as a case study in the Select Panel’s July 2016 interim update. The Panel found that ABR paid Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities a flat fee of $45 to $60 per baby specimen.

In 2015 alone, ABR made nearly $80,000 in payments to its top five abortion facilities from which it procured baby body parts. In turn, ABR sold these parts to customers. In 2015 alone, ABR’s revenue from the sale of baby body parts to its top six customers equaled $191,984 including at least 80 baby brains, 36 pairs of eyes, eight hearts, 16 spinal cords, two intact skullcaps, two spinal columns, two skins, and other tissue.

CMP’s investigations revealed from invoices that the process was similar with other biotech companies. The middlemen paid abortion facilities for collecting the baby body parts and then sold them to universities, pharmaceutical companies, research labs, and even the NIH and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for astronomical prices.

FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2017

Issue Brief IF17I01

https://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF17I45.pdf

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