Planned Parenthood affiliates profited by transferring parts of aborted babies to outside organizations in violation of the law, a special House panel has concluded after a yearlong investigation.
In a 418-page report released Wednesday, the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives also found that other organizations involved in the transfer of fetal tissue broke federal or state law.
Below are some of the strongest findings, some featuring interviews between Planned Parenthood officials and the House panel’s top investigators:
Several Planned Parenthood affiliates made a profit from the transfer of aborted body parts and other fetal tissue, in violation of federal law prohibiting that.
The report says:
Accounting documents from middleman tissue organizations showed that several PPFA [Planned Parenthood Federation of America] affiliates made a profit from the transfer of fetal tissue.
The middleman investigation, and in particular the investigation of StemExpress, produced information about several PPFA affiliate clinics. In particular, it became clear that StemExpress was doing all the work to obtain consent for donation from individual patients, that StemExpress was doing the work of harvesting the fetal tissue after an abortion was complete, and that StemExpress was doing the work and passing on its costs of shipping to customers.
This raised a profound issue for the [House select] panel: Both the middleman and the PPFA affiliate clinic were claiming the same expenses against their revenue to show a loss on fetal tissue sales.
Planned Parenthood abortion doctors would huddle with a tissue procurement technician from Novogenix to learn what aborted body parts that outside person was searching for that day.
Investigators questioned a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood abortion provider (PP Witness No. 1) who also works for the Medical Directors’ Council. She answered questions about meetings she had with Novogenix, a tissue procurement company, prior to performing abortions to determine the type of tissue that its technicians wanted that day.
The report says:
Q: Now, do you think that doctors in your position should huddle in the morning? You say, ‘I like to do that.’ It’s sort of an ongoing tense. Do you think the doctors should huddle with a tissue tech to see what they’re procuring, [what] is on their list that day?
A: I don’t really have a feeling as to whether other doctors did. I like to be helpful.
Q: And so you found it helpful that at least on this one day to huddle with the tissue tech and learn what [the Novogenix employee] was searching for, what orders she had; is that right?
A: I would ask her what tissue she was looking for, yes.
Q: All right. Do you think that’s a good idea for the whole fetal tissue donation program, that doctors and the tissue techs huddle each morning to discuss what they’re going to try and procure that day?
A: I think it could be helpful.
Planned Parenthood doctors appear to have altered their techniques to increase the chances of success in harvesting tissue from abortions that day.
Investigators questioned the same Planned Parenthood abortion provider in Los Angeles about whether she changed procedures to increase the likelihood of a successful procurement of specific tissue.
From the report:
Q: ‘There are little things they can make in their technique to increase your success.’ What are those little things?
A: Again, as I mentioned, a change in instruments, a change in where they’re grasping the tissue. These are changes in technique that a provider can make for a variety of reasons. I—
Q: But it could be made to increase the success of fetal tissue donation.
A: Yes, that’s what I’m saying.
Q: If there was no fetal tissue donation, those little things, changes that would be made to increase their likelihood of success, those wouldn’t be made, would they?
A: Well, I can’t say across the board they wouldn’t be made because there’s probably other reasons that a provider during a procedure—
Q: They wouldn’t be made for the purpose of getting fetal tissue, would they?
A: No, they wouldn’t.
Q: So one set of little changes is chosen for other medical reasons, and one set of little changes could be chosen to increase the likelihood of success.
A: Yes.
Full article at the Daily Signal.
California again goes to new depths of darkness.
From the Catechism Explained by Fr. Spirago (circa 1890s), regarding the 5th Commandment:
Hence St. Paul warns Christian people not to yield their members as instruments of iniquity unto sin (Rom. vi. 13). As God will require us to give account of the manner in which we have employed the talents
given us (Matt. xxv. 19), so we shall have to answer for the employment of the body, which the soul informs and makes instrumental in the performance of the duties of our calling. Our Lord told St. Gertrude that after the resurrection, on the members of the body employed in His service surpassing* dignity and excellence would be conferred.
Many abortionists, human tissue merchants, and politicians supporting this Nazi-like abortion industry have grievously offended our Creator, God. Without remorse, repentance, penance, and amendment to do no more, they are in for a hot and fiery eternal surprise! Imagine misery and suffering for eternity! How foolish.
Agreed. All pro-choice leaders like Obama, the Clintons supporting a woman’s right to murder her baby are all accomplices. Another sad thing is that through their wicked executive orders, they financially supported the murder of innocent children in many foreign countries besides our own. What an awful stain on our nation, a scar that can never go away. Many killed are unwanted black babies, its been a real genocide of black babies these last nearly 40 years and the last eight led by a black man with taxpayers money. For this rascist, does anyone really think black lives matter to him?