13 FEB 2019 Planned Parenthood Kept Babies Alive in order to Harvest Brain & Heart

 

In an undercover video, a former technician for a tissue-harvesting company details how an

aborted baby was kept alive so that its heart could be harvested at a California Planned

Parenthood facility, raising more legal questions about the group’s practices.

 

Holly O’Donnell, a former blood and tissue procurement technician for the biotech startup

StemExpress, also said she was asked to harvest an intact brain from the late-term, male fetus

whose heart was still beating after the abortion.

 

A StemExpress supervisor “gave me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of

the face. And I can’t even describe what that feels like,” said Ms. O’Donnell, who has been

featured in earlier videos by the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life group that previously

had released six undercover clips involving Planned Parenthood personnel and practices.

 

David Daleiden, the video project leader, said the undercover footage and interviews show that

fetuses are sometimes delivered “intact and alive” before their organs are harvested.

 

The federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 says that when a child is born alive,

including having a beating heart, he or she is a legal person and has a right to lifesaving

medical care.

 

California law also prohibits any kind of experimentation on a fetus with a discernible

heartbeat, said the Center for Medical Progress, which is calling for the federal government to

cease its $500 million a year support to Planned Parenthood and for it to be investigated.

 

“Today’s video is especially gruesome, and it shows, once again, the barbarity of what takes

place at Planned Parenthoodclinics across the country,” said Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania

Republican and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health, one of several

congressional panels investigating Planned Parenthood.

 

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform

Committee, said Wednesday that all the videos are “disturbing,” and his committee’s

investigation will look into whether “any federal funding supported transactions involving fetal

tissue.”

 

“Top-level employees of Planned Parenthood admit to changing their procedures to harvest intact

bodies of unborn children for body-part trafficking,” said Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican

and chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice.

 

Mr. Franks and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, also said

Wednesday that they have written to 58 Planned Parenthood affiliates. They are seeking 10 years

of data about all abortions, late-term abortions, “born-alive” infants, fetal tissue collections

and any modifications of abortion techniques to “increase the odds of preserving intact fetal

tissue and organs.”

 

Five states— Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Utah and New Hampshire - already defunded Planned Parenthood.

 

https://thewashingtonpundit.com/2019/02/13/842/