(JillStanek.com) To begin, sorry, my blog crashed several times yesterday due to traffic. I’ve increased the bandwidth, so hopefully that won’t happen again.
Moving on, Planned Parenthood has responded to the explosive charges that it is selling aborted baby parts:
Statement from Eric Ferraro, Vice President of Communications, Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
“In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, treatments and cures for serious diseases. Women at Planned Parenthood who have abortions are no different. At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does – with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards. There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or Planned Parenthood. In some instances, actual costs, such as the cost to transport tissue to leading research centers, are reimbursed, which is standard across the medical field.
“A well-funded group established for the purpose of damaging Planned Parenthood’s mission and services has promoted a heavily edited, secretly recorded videotape that falsely portrays Planned Parenthood’s participation in tissue donation programs that support lifesaving scientific research. Similar false accusations have been put forth by opponents of abortion services for decades. These groups have been widely discredited and their claims fall apart on closer examination, just as they do in this case.”
But just as quickly as it scrambled to defend itself, The Center for Medical Progress (which has crashed a couple times today due to traffic) released evidence Planned Parenthood was LYING:
Planned Parenthood makes two key admissions in their statement today: 1) aborted fetal parts are harvested at their clinics, and 2) money is exchanged in connection with this. They also tell several lies: 1) That proper consent is obtained from patients, 2) That Planned Parenthood does not make money off the body parts, and 3) that everything is legal.
The Center for Medical Progress has obtained an advertisement to Planned Parenthood clinics (http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/StemExpress-flyer.pdf) from StemExpress, LLC, one of the major purchasers of Planned Parenthood’s aborted fetal tissue. This flyer advertises 4 different times the financial benefit that Planned Parenthood clinics can receive from supplying fetal tissue, with the words: “Financially Profitable,” “Financial Profits,” “financial benefit to your clinic,” “fiscal growth of your own clinic.” The advertisement carries an endorsement from Planned Parenthood Medical Director Dr. Dorothy Furgerson.
None of this is standard across the mainstream medical field, but it is standard across Planned Parenthood’s insular and unaccountable abortion field.
I have cut and pasted the key phrases from the linked flyer:
The brochure, made by Stem Express, appears specifically tailored for distribution to Planned Parenthood abortion clinics. It includes an endorsement of the company by “Dr. Dorothy Furgerson, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.” Furgerson is Chief Medical Officer of this PP affiliate, which is in California.
The brochure several times touts profits as an incentive to “partner” with Stem Express, a company that buys and sells aborted baby parts (and whose website is suddenly this morning went into “Maintenance Mode.”) – “Financially Profitable,” “fiscally rewards clinics,” “Financial Profits,” “financial benefit to your clinic,” “fiscal growth of your own clinic.” It cannot be parsed any other way than there is money to be made trafficking aborted baby parts.
And the company was wooing, at least in part, Planned Parenthood affiliates.
(Editor’s Note: This article first appeared at JillStanek.com, and is reprinted here with permission. )
