The state of Kentucky has filed a legal action demanding nearly $700,000 in fines from a Planned Parenthood abortion-business location for operating – and allegedly endangering patients – by not having the legally required license and patient transfer agreements.
The action comes just as Planned Parenthood is under scrutiny nationwide for its baby-parts-for-sale business uncovered by a series of undercover videos released throughout 2015. The videos reveal Planned Parenthood executives talking about how much they should be paid for the body parts, including one executive saying how her fees could be increased because she wants a Lamborghini.
Although a move in Congress to eliminate federal funding for the abortion business failed, that action is being pursued, and accomplished, at the state level in several locations already.
The action in Kentucky alleges that Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which is running a business in Louisville, is doing so illegally.
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The action alleges that paperwork submitted with the organization's application for a license – transfer agreements that not only are "essential for obtaining a license, but … also essential for ensuring the safety of patients," were "a complete sham."
"Planned Parenthood knowing and callously endangered the lives of its patients and began performing abortions" even without legal permission to operate, the filing states.
The situation was being blamed on the administration of former Gov. Steve Beshear, under whom Maryellen Mynear, then the head of the Cabinet's Office of Inspector General, "ignored or overlooked ... facts."
While operating illegally, the business "performed twenty-three (23) abortions, placing its patients at extreme risk to their health, safety, and lives had an emergency occurred," it states.
"Because of its blatant violations of law, Planned Parenthood should be required to pay fines in the maximum amount allowed by law in order to punish it for its callous and knowing violations of law and to deter it and others from such violations in the future," the filing states.
The transfer agreements are contracts that provide an abortion patient will be cared for in a licensed hospital should there be complications or emergencies.
"Planned Parenthood knowingly, intentionally, fraudulently, deceitfully, with unlawful design, willfully, and with deliberate misrepresentation, or by careless, negligent, or incautious disregard for Kentucky law, submitted facially and patently deficient transfer agreements with its application in wanton callous disregard for the health, safety and lives of its prospective patients, the women on whom it would, and did, conduct abortion operations," the claim states.
The transfer agreements actually were "simply a letter from Louisville Metro EMS instructing Planned Parenthood to call '911' in the event of an emergency."
The claim explains how Planned Parenthood pressured the administration of the former governor to grant assurances that it could be operating immediately, knowing that an incoming governor's staff would review the situation.
In fact, the office of the incoming governor, Matt Bevin, was reviewing that situation when it "learned the startling news that Planned Parenthood had already performed numerous abortions," so a "cease and desist letter" was issued.
The government action proposes a fine of $684,000.
President Troy Newman of Operation Rescue, which fights abortion-industry interests, said, "It looks like the previous pro-abortion administration tried to pull a fast one by getting Planned Parenthood into the abortion business before a new administration could realize that it did not meet the requirements of the law. This is political corruption at its worst.
"Planned Parenthood has very powerful political allies that will do anything, including committing crimes and endangering women, to benefit or cover up for Planned Parenthood. That is not just in Kentucky, but nationwide. This incident is one more case in evidence of that."
Bevin's statement on the fight said, "Planned Parenthood should be required to pay fines in the maximum amount allowed by law in order to punish it for its callous and knowing violations of law and to deter it and others from such violations in the future."
The undercover videos were released over 2015 by an organization called the Center for Medical Progress.
Two of its officials were indicted by a Texas grand jury assigned to investigate Planned Parenthood, and the outrage that the decision triggered has revealed that the prosecutor in that office not only has been financially and politically supported by a lawyer representing abortionists but one of the lawyers in the prosecutor's office is a board member for the local Planned Parenthood.
A Houston grand jury set out to consider the Center for Medical Progress's evidence against Planned Parenthood but ended up indicting the investigators, CMP director David Daleiden and CMP employee Sandra Merritt, who have been charged with a felony count related to tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to buying human tissue.
They are fighting the charges.
In the first undercover video released by CMP, Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on crushing babies.
"We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part, I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact," she said.
See the first video:
In the second video, Planned Parenthood's Mary Gatter said, "I want a Lamborghini."
See her comments:
In the fifth, Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood's Houston clinic discusses "intact fetal cadavers":
The seventh video has the testimony of a Planned Parenthood worker who tapped an aborted infant's heart and saw it start beating.
And No. 8 has Cate Dyer, CEO of Stem Express, admitting Planned Parenthood sells fully intact aborted babies.