Could this be enough to finally defund Planned Parenthood?
House Republican lawmakers released shocking documents Wednesday that prove Planned Parenthood was profiting from the sale of tissue from dead babies for research.
The documents, released by a special House panel investigating fetal tissue donation by such groups as Planned Parenthood, include promotional and administrative materials that detail how some businesses procure fetal tissue from abortion providers and then sell them to researchers. Republicans on the panel said they came from investigative work by staff.
The investigative panel was created last year following conservative furor over secretly recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing how they sometimes supply fetal tissue for medical research. The documents were released in advance of a hearing that questioned whether the businesses that procure the tissue are violating a federal prohibition against profiting from those sales.
Republicans say the documents show that abortion clinics aren’t incurring enough costs to make up for the profit of selling the parts to the procurement businesses. Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn, chairwoman of the select committee, pointed to documents that show websites offering various body parts from babies, available by the gestation period of the pregnancy at the time of the abortion. She said the business has been growing in recent years.
“This sounds like someone who wants to make money, a lot of money selling baby body parts,” Blackburn said at the hearing.
Witnesses at the hearing included prosecutors and lawyers with no direct connection to the companies cited in the materials.
Earlier this year, the committee issued several subpoenas to organizations, including one of the procurement companies StemExpress, which the panel said had been uncooperative.
Planned Parenthood has denied wrongdoing. Still, the undercover videos, which began appearing last July, have been cited by governors and legislators in numerous Republican-led states as justification for cutting off public funding for Planned Parenthood.
“Understanding these documents as a group is critical to the analysis of whether the abortion clinics had any responsibility or tasks at all related to the fetal tissue. In fact, it is hard to conceive of the abortion clinics doing anything at all other than being paid per tissue for the work performed,” the House findings say.
Below are screenshots from the document. The findings can be read here.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
First we, the people, give the young people ways to keep from having babies. Then, we start paying for them to use it. Next, they miss their days dose and become pregnant with someone they want to marry and doesn’t want to marry them. Then we say, “It’s okay. We will help you get rid of your baby.” Now, we are paying for that, plus the money to raise and feed that baby which we have to do or they will die. Now it is a solution for them as they go from partner to partner to find someone to marry. It is no longer a helping gift for them, but an expectation that we will pay all their bills
including abortions. Done? No. Now we are funding the organization giving them the abortion and that organization is making money by selling the dead baby’s parts…..People, do you not see anything wrong with this?
Do you not see anything wrong with people who benefit from the research done with it, only to bite the hand that saved them? Or people who think that their children can have more –or even just as much–as they did, even though the human population has gotten bigger and the planet hasn’t? We have species teetering on extinction, not because we’re hunting them, but because we’ve forced them into preserves too small to sustain their population, because we’re using more land for bigger farms to raise the food to feed our ever-growing population.
How come we have such large surplus’s then if it is hard to feed what we have now?
So much to say in response to this post by Wendy. FIRST OF ALL, There is NO WAY I would gratefully accept a body part from ANYONE when it’s done unethically. i would not wish to SURVIVE a terrible condition, if it was done by killing a baby. And I think it’s sick minded if anyone gets excited about that. Second of all, THIS monstrosity is QUICKLY turning me AWAY from wishing to be involved in organ donations at all! It’s weird to begin with and NOW it’s grown out of control as we now see here. And as I expected it would.
Thirdly, the human population has every RIGHT to grow bigger. We are above all these animals that people are weeping and wailing over, while they spit on the graves of dismembered baby humans. If someone thinks the population is out of control, then they need to get their thinking cap on. TEACH our kids to RESPECT SEX, not abuse it. Teach them that children are to be MADE within marriage ONLY, and when they slip up, to FACE RESPONSIBILITY like a real human being. As a mother I am quite able to teach my children this, why is it so hard for society to? Perhaps, this so-called over-burdened human population, will come back under ‘control’ by doing it the NATURAL way (GOD’S way) rather than KILLING PEOPLE OFF for convenience sake.
I often wonder why population control advocates never seem outwardly excited about tsunamis and terrorist attacks, earthquakes and floods. I would think that would help ya’ll solve this supposed problem of overpopulation. Sickeningly, Abortion has probably killed many more people than these four things put together, but who cares?
ME for one!
Oh, what little faith, Wendy. First off, this is called murder. Second, do you really think God cannot provide for the mass of people on this earth? third, those that are going around having babies and are not married are living in sin. God said, to marry first, then have sex and a family. If people would obey him, you wouldn’t see all these murdered babies. We humans are the problem and we need to listen to an almighty God that knows what He is talking about, instead of just doing our thing.
Yes, I most certainly DO see something wrong with this.
They need to defund Plan Parent hood. Explain to me all the parts found in Gosnells refrigerator being different than what Plan Parenthood is doing by changing the way the baby is delivered which everyone know if the brain is out last the child is usually brain dead and they are doing this on purpose to get tissue. This is horrible and I am sure we are only seeing the tip of the Iceberg and if Gosnell is in jail for his butchery then they should also be in jail for the profit of killing babies. Abortions are not a have an return feature for there is a limited about of Abortions a person can have for then they are sterile and can not have anymore babies. My friend had two and could not longer have children.
Defund and also Dismantle satanic agency.
Yesterday if possible!
It’s beyond me how People can be so evil as to kill an unborn baby; then let Planned Parenthood sell their Parts. They will burn in Hell.
Evil evil evil people. They may get away with this now but when they stand before our maker they will burn eternally.
The fire is already going for those who murder the innocent babies.
“What difference, at this point, does it make?” After all, the baby’s dead; may as well sell off the parts, right? No sense letting EVERYthing go to waste.
This, i imagine, is part of the alleged “thinking process” that these abortionists have used to excuse their consciences.
I wonder how many know that Planned Parenthood was proposed by a well-known Eugenicist, Margaret Sanger, who often promoted selective breeding and the killing off of undesirable traits, just like with animals.
She must have been related to Adolph Hitler.
I wonder if Hillary is getting a piece of this action! Geez!
Enough babies are murdered by abortion in New York City alone each year to fill an NFL stadium. Judgement Day is going to be awfully interesting.
In World War II a famous Dr. performed an enormous amount of research with Govt. funding which was later discredited and condemned by the world and never utilized because of the way it was gathered. The Dr.s name Josef Mengele The Angel of Death.
Today we have Planned Parenthood Dr.s and abortions to compare with the earlier atrocities. However today it is accepted and also funded by our Govt. Simply amazing how things change yet stay the same.
Around 60 million babies murdered since an immoral supreme court passed the legislation to MURDER the unborn. Rest assured they will face their judgement just as will the fake Dr.’s who perform these bloody procedures .
Dr. Mengle and planned murder hood are related!
yeahhhh. So sad. Let’s change that!
I wud never marry a girl if i knew she had aborted a child. I wud be afraid she wud kill mine.
Planned Parenthood is another way of cover up for people to have abortions because they were too lazy and irresponsible to use contraceptives. Go the Planned Parenthood if you want to abort because of the fun it took for a few seconds.
Not only does PP commit unethical practices, they also launder money for the Democrat Party. PP needs to be defunded, they need to be shut down and private clinics take over.
With all the parents out there who aren’t able to conceive a child and want to adopt.. Then you have an agency killing babies and selling their body parts for profit. What has this country come to. Why can’t an agency work hand in hand with women who do not want an baby but get pregnant, have the baby and give it up for adoption. Of course that is too simple or makes too much sense. Killing a conceived baby is a sin and GOD will judge those when the time comes.
those killing these babies can justify somehow in their minds. maybe they don’t know any better. but we do. Who is more responsible? we all are. God help us all. Please forgive me God. what can I do?
those killing these babies can justify somehow in their minds. maybe they don’t know any better. but we do. Who is more responsible? we all are. God help us all. Please forgive me God. what can I do?
well if u have a car wreck and kill a pregnant mother it is 2 counts of murder, one for the mother and one for the unnborn child so for them to say that the unborn have no rights untill they r born is false and they should be put in prizon for murder just like someone who accidentally or on purpose kills a pregnant woman. the law is for all ppl and doesnt go by double standards ppl do and its high time we stood up and took held the crooked polaticians and the satanist accountable with the bible and the woord of God
If an industry has no problem slaughtering innocent babies does anyone really think they are going to have a problem with telling a lie? The abortion industry is not about freedom or any other cause of virtue. The abortion industry is about getting rich off the slaughter of baby humans.
WOW!
Are any out there reading these posts?
No wonder the world is in such a state of turmoil, and depravity.
Just to read these words and imagine the level of education for most of these posts gives me the chills!
I fear for my children and grand children s future to be decided by such ignorant, uneducated, un-evolved homo-sapiens who have possibly never made it past the second grade.
God help us in this plight for sanity.
What ever happened to the criminal charges against the people who recorded these videos? Are they still facing jail/prison?