Alexandra DeSanctis:
House speaker Paul Ryan announced yesterday that, as part of the Republican Congress’s effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the majority party will also aim to defund Planned Parenthood. This news has caused immediate backlash from pro-abortion activists and politicians, many of whom continue to assert that the organization does “so much more” than simply offer abortion services.
But this latest news about the defunding effort comes just one day after the House Select Panel on Infant Lives released its final report, revealing in damning detail the immense amount of illegal activity Planned Parenthood carried out in order to profit further from its abortion business and the remains of aborted children.
Congress created the House panel in the fall of 2015 after a series of undercover videos filmed by the Center for Medical Progress revealed footage of Planned Parenthood officials callously haggling over the prices of fetal tissue and discussing the practices used to obtain particular organs that would bring the most profit to the organization.
After a year and a half of investigation into the organization’s practices, the panel has unveiled extensive evidence showing that Planned Parenthood profited illegally from transferring the fetal tissue of aborted babies to other groups for research purposes, violating several federal and state laws in the process.
Despite the fact that Planned Parenthood and its political allies expended millions of dollars in a campaign to deny wrongdoing and portray the investigation as a political witch hunt, the panel has compiled 418 pages of compelling evidence that the group committed extensive wrongdoing.
Here are four of the most alarming pieces of evidence from the report:
First, Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally profited from the transfer of fetal tissue, as they repeatedly received compensation despite the fact that their clinicians never participated in harvesting or packaging the tissue in question. In practice, a tissue-procurement organization (TPO) such as StemExpress would partner with Planned Parenthood to obtain fetal tissue to then “donate” to researchers. (In reality, StemExpress, too, broke the law; it has been referred for criminal charges in multiple states for profiting from the sale of fetal tissue.)
StemExpress hired its own clinicians to work within Planned Parenthood centers, and these StemExpress employees conducted all of the work related to harvesting, preparing, and shipping the fetal tissue. However, internal StemExpress documents reveal that Planned Parenthood accepted compensation for costs its clinics supposedly incurred in the procurement of this tissue. Thus, it is evident that Planned Parenthood received monetary compensation for work it did not do; in other words, the group profited from fetal-tissue transfer, which is illegal. In fact, these TPOs explicitly marketed themselves to Planned Parenthood affiliates as potential partners that would increase the clinics’ bottom lines.
Second, Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers modified abortion procedures in order to procure intact fetuses and obtain higher profits from selling those fetal organs to researchers. Abortion procedures modified in this way greatly increase the chance of an infant’s being born alive, and it is unclear what happens to infants in these circumstances. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, when testifying before Congress last year, insisted that she had never heard of any such events occurring. However, Planned Parenthood clinic workers testified before the panel that such procedures do take place and that, scientifically speaking, they have a much higher likelihood of causing an infant to be born alive.
Rather thin bill of charges here. They don’t even match the allegations made by up accused criminal David Daleiden.
But we have to have our bogeyman to scare women and men from having non procreative sex outside of marriage.
All government funding of PP should be cut off immediately. There is no rational reason to fund an organization that murders the unborn only to then harvest and sell the body parts for profit.
See Kermit Gosnell….
I will give you one caveat; if the feral negros in Chicago had been aborted or perhaps 4 of the 762 murdered in 2016 in Chicago, the individual who was tortured because he was white and supported Trump, would have never been subjected to the abhorrent behavior of those feral negros. On that I am certain we would agree…..
@July 4th American: feral negros?
So glad you fucking losers lost the war of northern aggression. Long live WT Sherman!
Isn’t the very basis for the justification of abortion being a “right” a woman’s right to privacy? Here we have Planned Parenthood sending vultures out to circle the homes of pregnant women until they can convince them to come in and restock their shelves of baby parts.
@PhillipMarlowe: Uh… dumbass. YOU lost the Civil War. YOU fought to defend slavery and, after the war, YOU created the KKK, Jim Crow and opposed civil rights.
And YOU support an organization created to abort black babies in order to try and eliminate blacks in America.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: Deplorable, denigration was defeated on Election Day.
And what drugs are you on? You have no grounding in reality.
Long live WT Sherman, one of America’s patriots.
@PhillipMarlowe: I didn’t know AJ had a twin.
@PhillipMarlowe: #3
The laugh is on you. I am a Northerner.
As for the dirtbags that did what they did in Chicago, they are what I said they are and rather politely I might add, feral negros.
@July 4th American: Maryland was know as a northern state with southern sympathies.
Your feral negros comment would be at home in Civil War St Mary’s County and Charles County.
@PhillipMarlowe: #8
Gee, I did not know I was from the people’s republic of Maryland.
The comment regarding feral negros is rather complimentary given the abuse rendered unto an innocent victim. Were it the democrat post civil war South, all four would surely swing from the nearest oak tree by strong ropes.
@July 4th American: Don’t worry about it. Racists like Phillip that defend an organization that was established to euthanize “unwanted” races and people deemed (by them, of course) unfit to live merely grasp at straws to attack anyone they cannot establish an argument against.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
Believe me, I am not.
The great detective is not so great a detective. Were he a detective instead of a party toady, the reality of what PP is and has been would be obvious. I lament in this instance that those feral negros, who tortured an innocent mentally challenged individual, had themselves not been euthanized before being allowed to pollute civil society.
.
@July 4th American: July 4th,
there were whites attacking blacks in Boston over bussing in the 1970s.
Still defending your use of the racist term feral negroes with limp wristed diversions.
@July 4th American: @Bill… Deplorable Me: Wrong, Deplorable Billy.
But it is typical of the weak minded to play the race card, accusing their logical and intellectual betters of being racists rather than defending their views with reason or facts.
@July 4th American: July 4th American, you can click your heels three times, wishing that Ms Sanger was a racist and eugenist, but you are only projecting.
You have forgotten that you did not describe the white Dylan Roof who murdered “negroes” as “feral.”
You lynch yourself with your own words.
@PhillipMarlowe:
Uh huh. Your liberals. Democrats.
No, not wrong. Anyone defending Planned Parenthood defends an organization of racist origin defends racism and is a racist. I suggest you read up on the Most Worshipful Margaret to try and stem the tide of your own stupidity.
@PhillipMarlowe: #13
Why, yes I am… Do you condone the actions of those four feral negros in Chicago?
Ok, not germane to the discussion of the feral four(negros) in Chicago
Did not forget anything, again not in the discussion of the feral four(negros) in Chicago.
In the larger context, my comment regarding the feral four negros in chicago was related to planned parenthood. Again, it is unfortunate that these four feral negros escaped the inevitable occurance of abortion in the black community. Were they to have never polluted the civil society, the innocent victim would have never been tortured and racially abused.
Perhaps your role here would be most beneficial were you to historically list all black on white and white on black involved criminal acts…
@July 4th American: Again, you use the word feral because the attackers were black. You have not, nor would not, use it to describe criminals who were white.
@Bill- Deplorable Me:
Sorry Deplorable. While it has become de rigor for conservatives to attack women for their sexual behavior by labeling Planned Parenthood as “racist” to the core, that doesn’t make it true.
@PhillipMarlowe: What makes Planned Parenthood a racist organization is the FACT that it was established to eliminate what Margaret Sanger regarded as “human weeds”; blacks. Denial of this well documented fact springs from either gross stupidity or racism. Difficult to tell with some people which factor is at play.