A licensed phlebotomist who took a job as a tissue-procurement operative for a California company that supplies body parts to researchers says she was pressured to turn aborted babies into cash.
“I’m not going to tell a girl to kill her baby so I can get money,” said Holly O’Donnell, a former procurement technician for StemExpress, a biotech company in northern California that partners with Planned Parenthood clinics.
“That’s what this company does. Straight up, that’s what this company does,” she said.
Her comments came in the most recent video released by the Center for Medical Progress, which dispatched undercover agents into Planned Parenthood clinics to expose the business of selling pieces of unborn children for profit.
Five previous videos have revealed Planned Parenthood executives coldly haggling over body parts. One said, “I want a Lamborghini.”
So far, several congressional committees and a dozen states have begun investigating Planned Parenthood. There are efforts to take federal taxpayer money away from the business, one state canceled a $650,000 subsidy to the business and other states similarly have withdrawn other money.
StemExpress and the National Abortion Federation were so alarmed by their statements becoming public that they went to court, and judges have temporary suppressed the evidence, citing privacy concerns.
Planned Parenthood even has been warned of a possible defamation case developing in response to accusations its president, Cecile Richards, leveled against the maker of the videos.
“Experiences like Holly O’Donnell’s show that Planned Parenthood’s abortion and baby parts business is not a safe place where vulnerable women can be cared for, but a harvesting ground for saleable human ‘product,” said CMP founder David Daleiden.
“Taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood’s barbaric abortion business should be revoked immediately, and law enforcement and other elected officials must act decisively to determine the full extent of Planned Parenthood’s offensive practices and hold them accountable to the law,” he said.
See the video:
[jwplayer o5ThXeVg]
The investigation is part of the “Human Capital” documentary Web series by CMP.
In the series, O’Donnell describes how her job was to identify pregnant patients matching the specifications of StemExpress customers and to harvest the fetal body parts from their abortions.
“It’s not an option, it’s a demand,” StemExpress supervisors told O’Donnell regarding approaching pregnant women at Planned Parenthood for fetal tissue “donations.”
But consent wasn’t always obtained, she said.
“If there was a higher gestation, and the technicians needed it, there were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know,” she said.
CMP notes: “Federal laws on the procurement and use of human fetal tissue require that patients consent to the tissue donation subsequent to consenting to the abortion procedure (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).”
O’Donnell said Planned Parenthood would give StemExpress workers access to patient records and schedules so they would know when a possible “supply” was available.
“They give you a sheet, and it’s everybody for that day, who’s coming in for an ultrasound, who’s coming in for an abortion, medical or a late-term abortion,” O’Donnell said.
That included women getting only pregnancy tests.
“Pregnancy tests are potential pregnancies, therefore potential specimens. So it’s just taking advantage of the opportunities,” she said.
O’Donnell says in an earlier video she initially thought her job would be drawing blood from patients, “not procuring tissue from aborted fetuses.”
She fainted in shock on her first day at work when she suddenly was asked to dissect a freshly aborted fetus.
The backlash to the videos has spread worldwide.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life organization of thousands of lawyers, revealed that a member of the European Parliament asked the European Commission to respond to the revelations about Planned Parenthood.
Miroslav Mikolášik, ADF reported, has “asked the commission if it is aware of the videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress, if it intends to condemn Planned Parenthood’s actions and suspend funding until U.S. authorities complete a thorough investigation, and if it intends to prevent Planned Parenthood from joining the European Commission’s lawsuit against the ‘One of Us’ European Citizen Initiative, a grassroots effort to end the commission’s funding of abortion.”
The questions, posted on Facebook, point out that Planned Parenthood is “a major recipient of EU funds for development aid.”
“As a report by European Dignity Watch revealed in 2012, these funds are heavily used to fund abortions outside the EU, including in countries where abortion is illegal,” the European Parliament member noted.
“Is the commission aware of this practice and the video evidence published by the Center for Medical Progress?” he asked. “Will the commission condemn this practice and suspend all direct or indirect funding of Planned Parenthood facilities, projects or programs until such time as the U.S. authorities have carried out a thorough investigation into the matter?”
“No one should be forced to fund a wealthy corporation caught on camera negotiating the sale of baby parts,” said Sophia Kuby, the ADF’s spokeswoman based in Brussels. “The money of the people of Europe should not be used for such atrocities. We hope the commission will respond to the MEP’s questions by saying that it will act immediately to suspend funding for Planned Parenthood in light of these developments.”
Richards had accused the Center for Medical Progress of fomenting violence.
“The folks behind this, in fact, are part of the most militant wing of the anti-abortion movement that has been behind, you know, the bombing of clinics, the murder of doctors in their homes, and in their – in their churches – that’s what actually needs to be – to be looked at,” she said.
CMP board member Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, dispatched a cease-and-desist letter to Richards and Planned Parenthood, demanding a full retraction.
“I cannot stand by while Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards and ABC News air false allegations against me that are now being repeated as fact in numerous news sources,” Newman said in a statement.
“I have never condoned violence against abortion providers or businesses and Richards’ patently false statements against me must be retracted,” he said.
Richards’ made her remarks in the July 26 edition of ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulus.” She accused the Center for Medical Progress of advocating violence, including “the bombing of clinics” and “the murder of doctors in their homes and in their churches.”
Operation Rescue is a mainstream pro-life organization that engages in “non-violent civil disobedience at abortion facilities,” specializing in “documenting and reporting substandard and unlawful practices within the abortion industry.”
See the videos that already have been released (More are reported coming) No. 5:
[jwplayer 6YZC1nO2]
No. 4:
[jwplayer jgbOe0HP]
[jwplayer E62vBLnC]
No. 2:
[jwplayer vbPjx8h2]
No. 1:
[jwplayer 7pzwagZg]
An old story
WND also has reported that as horrific as the videos appear, they should surprise no one, since such practices have been documented for nearly two decades already.
A price list uncovered by a pro-life organization dated June 1998 shows that the price per specimen from a second trimester abortion is $90 fresh and $130 frozen.
Mark Crutcher, whose Life Dynamics organization was a ground-breaker in investigating the abortion behemoth that gets some $500 million annually from U.S. taxpayers, worked on that investigation.
His group reported back in February 2000 how the baby parts market works: “A baby parts ‘wholesaler’ enters into a financial agreement with an abortion clinic in which the wholesaler pays a monthly ‘site fee’ to the clinic. For this payment, the wholesaler is allowed to place a retrieval agent inside the clinic where he or she is given access to the corpses of children killed there and a workspace to harvest their parts.”
He continued: “The buyer – usually a researcher working for a medical school, pharmaceutical company, bio-tech company or government agency – supplies the wholesaler with a list of the baby parts wanted. … when such orders are received … they are faxed to the retrieval agent at the clinic who harvests the requested parts and ships them to the buyer.”
The documentation was provided at that time to Life Dynamics by a worker who left Comprehensive Health for Women, a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Overland Park, Kansas.
“Black genocide in 21st century America?” Watch incredible “MAAFA 21” documentary!
Among the documents was a “Fee-for-Services” Schedule A, effective June 1998, which outlined a charge of $220 per specimen for first-trimester aspiration abortions and $260 if the baby parts were frozen.
Crutcher’s report, citing Planned Parenthood’s own paperwork, found that one agent sold during February 1996 alone 47 livers, 11 liver fragments, seven brains, 21 eyes, eight thymuses, 23 legs, 14 pancreases, 14 lungs, six arms and one kidney-adrenal gland.
He also sold three orders of blood from the unborn child. The retrieval agent “harvested all of the parts,” the report said, explaining that “in order for the blood of an aborted child to be sold, the dead baby had to be brought to him intact.”
The “specimens,” the report said, would have generated up to about $25,000 in revenue for one month from one retrieval agent at one Planned Parenthood business.
Crutcher reported that the tissue logs reveal that one baby is often chopped up and sold to many buyers.
For example, babies taken from donors 113968 and 114189 were both killed late in their second trimester and cut into nine pieces. By applying the price list, buyers would have been invoiced between $3,510 and $5,070 for these parts, he said.
