Planned Parenthood currently receives nearly $700 million each year in federal taxpayer funding, despite the fact that, for years, they have aided in the harvesting of aborted body parts. In 2015, some of its affiliates were exposed for allegedly accepting large sums of money from tissue procurement agencies who entered their facilities to collect specific body parts of babies Planned Parenthood had aborted. An effort to defund Planned Parenthood failed 10 years ago, but under the Trump administration, there is a renewed conversation about ending the taxpayer funding of America’s leading abortion provider — which has failed to report and covered up the sexual abuse of minors, and more.
A decade ago, the Center for Medical Progress began releasing a series of undercover videos that purported to show Planned Parenthood executives taking part in the illegal trafficking of fetal body parts — a sort of side hustle for the abortion corporation. Some of those videos showed top staff members discussing specific body parts.
One such video, released in September of 2015, featured Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, who was Senior Medical Advisor for Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) at the time; Dr. Vanessa Cullins, who was Vice President for External Medical Affairs for PPFA; and Deborah VanDerhei, who was National Director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAPS) at PPFA. On the records, they appear to discuss the business of selling baby body parts with undercover journalists posing as potential buyers.
Westoff told the journalists, “We’ve just been working with people [procurement agencies and researchers] who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural. People want spinal cords, so I mean, that sort of thing. Certainly, everything we provide — oh, gonads! Oh my God, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh.”
Her comments are disturbing, but as part of the 10th video released by CMP, they were unfortunately not surprising. This was common language for Planned Parenthood execs from the very first video in which Dr. Deborah Nucatola discussed harvesting heart, lung, and liver from babies, “crush[ing] below” and “crush[ing] above” certain areas of the preborn child’s body to better preserve organs for procurement agencies.
Three years later, on August 7, 2018, it was revealed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had a contract with Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), a fetal tissue procurement company, to obtain “fresh” fetal parts for experiments that involved “humanized mice.” CNS News reported that the FDA “signed a new contract on July 25 to acquire ‘fresh’ human fetal tissue to transplant into ‘humanized mice’ so that these mice will have a functioning ‘human immune system.’”
The FDA allegedly chose ABR because it was “the only company in the U.S. capable of supplying tissue suitable for HM research. No other company or organization is capable of fulfilling the need” for “fresh human tissues… to create chimeric animals.”
CNS noted that “by issuing a contract to acquire human fetal tissue to use in making mice with human immune systems, the FDA is using federal tax dollars to create a demand for human body parts that must be taken from babies who are aborted.”
And, according to ABR, aborted baby parts are obtained immediately following an abortion, with technicians standing by on-site to collect the organs and tissue from babies, including ones whose hearts may still be beating. Advanced Bioscience Resources is known for contracting with multiple Planned Parenthood facilities in the U.S. to harvest aborted fetal body parts.
It’s been 10 years since Planned Parenthood was exposed for allegedly selling body parts from innocent children it was paid to kill. It’s time to renew the effort to strip it of taxpayer funding.
