Laura Berman and the Detroit News owe Carly Fiorina an apology and retraction

In a recent column for the Detroit News, columnist Laura Berman claims presidential candidate Carly Fiorina was being untruthful during the most recent presidential debate in describing a scene from one of the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. 

In the debate, Fiorina challenged President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to watch the videos and described a scene from one of them (specifically the 7th video at approximately the 6th minute mark) by saying, “Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain."

So how does Berman know what Fiorina said was untruthful?  Did she watch the videos herself?  No.  She believes a pro-abortion writer named Sarah Kliff who claims to have watched all the videos.  Sarah Kliff gained notoriety in the prolife community when as a writer for the Washington Post she didn’t cover the trial of abortionist and serial killer Kermit Gosnell because she believed it was a “local crime” story.   

Berman writes,

Planned Parenthood has denounced it as blatantly false, while Vox.com’s Sara (sic) Kliff called it “pure fiction,” after watching all 12 hours of the Center for Medical Progress’ videos targeting Planned Parenthood. “But the things Fiorina describes — the legs kicking, the intact ‘fully formed fetus,’ the heart beating, the remarks about having to ‘harvest its brain’ — are pure fiction,” she wrote, posting all 12 hours on the website.

Although several GOP candidates expressed outrage at abortion and Planned Parenthood’s involvement in it, Carpentier said Fiorina is being singled out because she’s “attesting to things that are blatantly untrue.” Fiorina has yet to retract any of her statements, instead saying people can “rest assured” her description is accurate.                   

Instead of retracting her statements or telling people to "rest assured," a super PAC supporting Fiorina has created the below 1-minute ad which includes her statement from the debate and the video footage she references.  



So who are you going to believe?  A pro-abortion writer or your own eyes?

The Detroit News should immediately update Berman's column online to include the footage or at bare minimum a link to the footage which Fiorina references and let their readers decide for themselves who is spouting "pure fiction."

U.S. House votes to defund Planned Parenthood, protect children who survive abortions

On September 18, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for two prolife bills.  One piece of legislation entitled the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 would defund Planned Parenthood for a year.  Planned Parenthood is America’s leading abortion provider and is being investigated by Congress for their role in the practice of trafficking in the body parts of aborted children. 

The Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 passed by a vote of 241-187 with 239 Republicans and two Democrats supporting the measure.            
                              
The House also voted 248-177 in favor of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.  This bill would “require any health care practitioner who is present when a child is born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion to: (1) exercise the same degree of care as reasonably provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and (2) ensure that such child is immediately admitted to a hospital.”

This bill passed with the support of 243 Republicans and 5 Democrats. 

Media baselessly attacks Carly Fiorina after she mentions Planned Parenthood's fetal harvesting

At National Review, Ian Tuttle has an article describing how quickly members of the media (which generally has avoided writing stories on the series of videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s practice of fetal body parts trafficking) jumped to Planned Parenthood’s defense.

During last night’s presidential debate, presidential candidate Carly Fiorina challenged President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to watch the videos and then described a scene from one of the videos by saying: 

I dare Hillary Clinton [and] Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully-formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’ This is about the character of our nation.

This line received huge applause from the audience. Tuttle describes how Planned Parenthood-friendly media members quickly went after Fiorina and her comment, apparently without ever actually watching the videos. 

By 10:15 p.m., Fusion’s Casey Tolan had labeled Fiorina’s answer “the scariest moment of the GOP Debate so far,” then penned a paragraph of almost-verbatim Planned Parenthood talking points.....

Reporter Rachana Pradhan “fact-checked” Fiorina’s claim for Politico: “That video relies solely on the interview and does not include footage to support her claims.”

And Slate’s Amanda Marcotte rushed to contend that Fiorina’s “grisly abortion rant” was untruths through and through: “There is nothing in the videos made by CMP, either in the edited or full-length versions, that has anything approaching images of legs kicking or hearts beating.”

Perhaps Marcotte & Co. should actually watch the Planned Parenthood videos. In the seventh video (there are ten available now, by the way, with more to come), at the 5:57 mark, is a baby, post-abortion, lying in a dish — its leg kicking. They will also hear Holly O’Donnell, an ex-StemExpress procurement technician who worked at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda Clinic in San Jose, Calif., describing how she was directed to “cut down the middle of the face” of a baby with a still-beating heart “to get the brain.”

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10th Planned Parenthood video released, features top Planned Parenthood exec talking about how selling fetal body parts can “generate a fair amount of income” for clinics

The Center for Medical Progress has released the 10th video in their series of videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s and abortion industry’s practice of selling the body parts of aborted children.  The undercover video features clips at what appears to be a conference of abortion providers including talks with Deb VanDerhei, the National Director of the Consortium of Abortion Providers, an organization within Planned Parenthood which attempts to expand the number of their affiliates doing abortions. 

A discussion with longtime abortionist Carolyn Westhoff is also shown.  Westhoff, who is a Senior Medical Advisor for Planned Parenthood, discusses how fetal body parts buyers want different types of fetal body parts and tissues from her abortion clinic including cardiac, eyes, neural, spinal cords, and gonads. 
   
Vanessa Russo, the Compliance Program Administrator for Planned Parenthood Keystone says, “A company like this that wants to give our organization money for the tissue, I think that’s a valid exchange.  And that’s okay”

The video also features a number of Planned Parenthood executives discussing how bad it would be for public relations if the public knew about how Planned Parenthood is willing to sell the body parts and organs of aborted children.

Watch the video below. 

Teleseminar Update on Planned Parenthood and Conference

Mark your calendar to join Right to Life of Michigan for a Teleseminar update on the Planned Parenthood videos and our annual Conference on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 11:30 a.m.

 We will hear from Right to Life of Michigan President Barbara Listing and Legislative Director Ed Rivet. The ongoing Planned Parenthood undercover videos have led to a lot of activity, both inside and outside the Michigan Capitol. Several important pieces of legislation are currently in the works. The 42nd Annual Right to Life of Michigan Conference on September 24 in Lansing will be an opportunity for prolife people around the state to come together and be inspired for activities in the wake of these important current events.

The teleseminar will last about 30 minutes. It’s open to all prolife people, feel free to share this information with your Michigan friends and family members.

There are two ways for you to listen in:
Use your phone and call (425) 440-5100; PIN Code: 662744#
Or, listen via the Internet: http://iTeleseminar.com/74456517

We are looking forward to connecting with you on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 11:30 a.m!

NPR runs puff piece on re-opened Ohio abortion clinic, never mentions health violations which closed it

National Public Radio’s All Things Considered ran a story about an abortion clinic in Ohio where the abortionist is providing both surgical and chemical abortions.  Entitled, “Bucking Trend, Ohio Doctor Opens Clinic That Provides Abortion Services,” the article by Sarah Jane Tribble tells us that abortionist David Burkons “liked delivering babies. But he is also committed to serving all his patients, including those who choose abortions.”
   
The reader learns that Burkons has finally been able to do surgical abortions at this location.

Initially in his new clinic, he could only administer the pills that induce medical abortion. But this summer, after 18 months of state inspections, rejections and — finally — acceptance, he began performing surgical abortions as well.

What the article doesn’t tell us is that this isn’t a “new clinic.”  In fact, this "new" clinic is at the exact same location as an abortion clinic which the state of Ohio shut down because of numerous deficiencies in 2013.  Those deficiencies included having unqualified employees routinely distributing controlled substances to patients, lack of infection control training, lack of evidence of informed consent, no registered nurse assigned to surgery, etc. 

Burkons worked at the "old" Capital Care Network clinic before it was closed and he re-opened the clinic under the new name of "Northeast Ohio Women's Clinic" mere months after it closed. These important details are curiously missing from the story. 

The NPR piece while focusing on Burkons use of chemical abortions, also fails to mention that Burkons is responsible for a large number of complications using the RU-486 chemical abortion method. 

When it was pointed out to reporter Sarah Jane Tribble that the clinic was not “new” but had been closed by the state in 2013, she responded by saying, “Thank you for reading. That was a different clinic.”

When it was further pointed out that the clinic is located in the same building at the same address and Burkons performed abortions there prior to it closing in 2013, Tribble responded by saying, “Different ownership.”

Does that sound like a journalist? Or does that sound like a public relations hack defending her employer? 

Imagine a restaurant is shut down by the state for numerous health violations.  A few months later the restaurant re-opens at the same location with a new name under "new management" but the chef is the same.  Wouldn't any reporter with journalistic integrity mention how the "old" restaurant was shut down by the state in an article discussing the re-opening?  Shouldn't the public be informed about the restaurant's and the chef's previous problems?

9th Planned Parenthood video released, baby body parts buyer admits sometimes babies “just fell out”

The Center for Medical Progress has released the ninth in its undercover series of videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s practice of selling body parts of aborted children.  This video focuses on Advanced BioScience Resources, an organization which buys body parts from Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics and then sells them to researchers. 

In the video, Perrin Larton, an employee of Advanced BioScience Resources, discusses how in some instances intact children “just fell out” of their mothers after the women had been dilated with laminaria. 
       
“Yeah, they put lams (laminaria) in and she comes in the next morning, and I literally have had women come in and they’ll go in the OR (operating room), and they’re back out in 3 minutes, and I’m going, ‘What’s going on?’

‘Oh yeah, the fetus was already in the vaginal canal whenever we put her in the stirrups, it just fell out.’” 

View the video below. 


Update: The full footage of the undercover meeting with Perrin Larton is below.

Planned Parenthood admits to selling body parts for $60 each, changing abortion techniques

In a letter to Congress, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards admits that one of their California affiliates receives a “reimbursement of $60 per tissue specimen” and that Planned Parenthood abortionists will adjust how they perform abortions to “ facilitate fetal tissue donations.”

Richards says only one Planned Parenthood affiliate is currently being paid for body parts but admits that four other affiliates previously had relationships with companies buying fetal body parts but those relationships have ended since the release of the undercover videos. 

Richards says the $60 per “tissue specimen” is a “modest reimbursement” and “these amounts were intended to recover only their costs.”  However, she provides no reasoning or accounting for why $60 per tissue specimen is an accurate reimbursement of Planned Parenthood’s supposed costs considering employees of tissue procurement companies like StemExpress would routinely collect the body parts and ship them.  No explanation or demonstration is given for this reimbursement even as Planned Parenthood admits that it’s guidance to affiliates says the affiliate “must be able to demonstrate the reimbursement represents its actual costs.” If the affiliate must demonstrate the reimbursement reflects actual costs, then where is that demonstration?

The Center for Medical Progress, the group behind the undercover videos has released a statement regarding Planned Parenthood’s letter which says:

Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards makes two key admissions today in Planned Parenthood’s letter to Congress: that Planned Parenthood gets paid $60 per baby body part harvested, and that Planned Parenthood doctors alter their abortion procedures to get higher-quality body parts. Both of these admissions speak to Planned Parenthood’s financial benefit and profit motive for supplying fetal tissue, and both are the points CMP’s videos have documented and illustrated from the very beginning. When a Tissue Procurement Organization handles all dissection, packaging, and shipping of fetal organs, and all Planned Parenthood does is spend 10 minutes consenting a patient, the $60 per body part harvested quickly adds up to illegal baby parts profit for Planned Parenthood. And when a Planned Parenthood doctor manipulates the abortion to get higher-quality baby parts, they are prizing Planned Parenthood’s financial interests ahead of women’s health.

Regarding the changing of abortion procedures to obtain the desired fetal tissue, Richards writes,

In performing the selected method, a physician may need to make multiple adjustments to the method as the surgery proceeds. These adjustments are clinical judgments – not a change of method – made by the physician as the abortion proceeds and are always intended to achieve the woman’s desired result as safely as possible......Our understanding, however, is that even adjustments that facilitate fetal tissue donations rarely occur at our few clinics that offer women this service.

This directly contradicts what Planned Parenthood’s own medical director Deborah Nucatola was caught on tape saying.  In the first undercover video released, Nucatola was very open in describing to actors how she would "huddle" with staffers at the start of the day to discuss what body parts were needed and that she would intentionally "crush above" and below the torso in an effort to obtain intact fetal organs.  This was not done to make the abortion as safe as possible for the woman but done solely to obtain the desired organs. 

Planned Parenthood has been caught selling the body parts of children killed at their clinics. They have still not provided any evidence that the money they receive for these parts is only reimbursement for their costs.  Planned Parenthood abortionists have been caught discussing their willingness and intent in changing abortion techniques to obtain intact organs to sell. They have still not provided any evidence that changing the technique is done for the safety of the woman. 

Is abortion moral?

In a recent video, Dennis Prager using a series of moral argument to discuss whether abortion is moral or not. 

8th video on fetal body part harvesting released, discusses intact severed baby heads

The eight video in the series by the Center for Medical Progress exposing Planned Parenthood’s practice of selling the body parts of unborn children was released earlier today.  It features undercover footage of a lunch meeting with Cate Dyer, the CEO of StemExpress.  StemExpress is a company which buys fetal body parts from Planned Parenthood (and other abortion clinics) and then sells them to researchers. 
                           
In the video, Cate Dyer discusses sending intact fetal heads to researchers, mentions Planned Parenthood is a “volume institution” with regards to abortion, says StemExpress could use 50 more fetal livers a week because the demand from researchers is so high, and mentions how they’ve seen clinics with “really rampant problems with bacteria” including staph infection. 

StemExpress sued the Center for Medical Progress in an attempt to prevent the release of this footage. Last week, a judge removed the temporary order which prevented the Center for Medical Progress from releasing this video.  StemExpress didn’t want the public to see their CEO laughing about how you have to warn a lab that a whole head of an aborted child is coming or else the person opening the box might freak out.  Due to the increased scrutiny of their relationship with Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue harvesting, StemExpress announced on August 14 that they were ending their dealings with Planned Parenthood. 

Watch the video below.



You can view the other 7 videos here. 

Update: The full footage is available below

 

Prolifers across Michigan protest Planned Parenthood, Satan worshipers show up in Detroit to counter protest

On August 22, prolife people from across Michigan joined prolifers across the United States and showed up at 14 Planned Parenthood clinic in Michigan to peacefully protest America’s largest abortion provider and encourage government leaders to stop sending tax dollars to them  The protests were spurred by a series of videos showing how Planned Parenthood is engaged in selling the body parts and organs of aborted children. 

Local media covered events in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Brighton, Warren, Lansing and Ann Arbor.

The event in Detroit received some national news coverage after Satan worshipers showed up to support Planned Parenthood.         

Clad in black robes, members of the Satanic Temple of Detroit drenched bound women with milk, simulating water-boarding to "illustrate the theocratic agenda imposed upon female bodies." The milk symbolized breast milk, one of the protest organizers explained on Facebook.

The Washington Post has compiled via Twitter some photos/videos from the events across the country. Here's some photos taken at protests in Michigan.

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7th video exposing Planned Parenthood discusses intact aborted children

The seventh video released by the Center for Medical Progress is called “Human Capital - Episode 3: Planned Parenthood's Custom Abortions for Superior Product” and focusing on late-term abortion cases in which a child is delivered fully intact and the heart may still be beating.  

In the video, former StemExpress employee Holly O’Donnell discusses a late-term abortion case in which a child was delivered intact and O’Donnell had to use scissors to cut through the child's face in order to retrieve the child’s brain. 

View the video below

One of Planned Parenthood’s fetal parts buyers severs ties with organization

StemExpress, one of companies which buys body parts of unborn children from Planned Parenthood, announced late Friday afternoon that they are cutting ties with the organization. 

“We value our various partnerships but, due to the increased questions that have arisen over the past few weeks, we feel it prudent to terminate activities with Planned Parenthood,” the company said in a statement. “While we value our business relationship with Planned Parenthood, that work represents a small percentage of our overall business activity and we must focus our limited resources on resolving these inquiries.”

The small biomedical tissue procurement company is distancing itself from Planned Parenthood after finding itself tangentially linked to what abortion opponents allege is Planned Parenthood’s illegal trafficking of fetal tissue and organs.

The third and sixth videos released by the Center for Medical Progress include interviews with a former StemExpress employee who discusses the relationship between StemExpress and Planned Parenthood.  Two congressional committees have asked StemExpress to detail their relationship with Planned Parenthood. 
   
StemExpress has also gone to court to prevent the Center for Medical Progress from releasing footage of a lunch meeting between executives at StemExpress and undercover actors from the Center for Medical Progress. 

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6th Planned Parenthood video discusses how StemExpress employees would take baby parts without woman’s consent

“Human Capital - Episode 2: Inside the Planned Parenthood Supply Site” features interviews with Holly O’Donnell, a former employee of StemExpress.  O’Donnell shares how Planned Parenthood would provide her and her co-workers with patient records and abortion schedule so they could be ready to get the parts of aborted children they needed.  StemExpress technicians would also take fetal organs without obtaining the consent of women if the organ was in demand. 

O’Donnell says, “If there was a higher gestation, and the technicians needed it, there were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.”

O’Donnell also discusses how quickly Planned Parenthood abortionist Ron Berman would perform abortions. 

View the video below.

Senator Debbie Stabenow doesn’t understand why prolifers want to defund an organization which sells fetal body parts, thinks Planned Parenthood does mammograms

Yesterday, Senator Debbie Stabenow tweeted out the following.

Why do Republicans want to undermine an organization that provides mammograms, cancer screenings, and blood pressure checks? #StandwithPP

— Sen. Debbie Stabenow (@SenStabenow) August 3, 2015

Maybe Senator Stabenow hasn’t been following the news of late. Maybe she is completely unaware of the series of videos exposing Planned Parenthood practice of trafficking in the body parts of unborn children. Maybe she didn’t listen to any of speeches by her colleagues to understand why they don’t think America’s leading abortion provider should continue getting millions in tax dollars. Maybe she was unaware that two of her Democratic colleagues were going to vote to defund Planned Parenthood. Maybe she doesn't understand why some people think selling the body parts of unborn children is wrong. Maybe she was unaware the money Planned Parenthood gets would be given to community health centers. Maybe she and her staff haven’t done a minute of research and instead rely solely on Planned Parenthood’s talking points.

Because if they did do the slightest bit of research they would know that Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms. They don’t even have the equipment to provide mammograms.   There are more than 8,000 licensed mammogram facilities in the U.S. and Planned Parenthood doesn’t run one of them.

Fifth video released, Planned Parenthood staffer discusses intact fetuses

This morning, the Center for Medical Progress released the fifth video in undercover investigation exposing Planned Parenthood's practice of trafficking in fetal body parts.  This video features footage from inside Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast abortion clinic and a discussion with Melissa Farrell, Director of Research, at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in her office and during a lunch meeting.

In the discussion, Farrell discusses obtaining "intact fetal cadavers," a desire to increase and diverse Planned Parenthood's "revenue stream," and her affiliate's willingness to alter abortion techniques in order to obtain better parts.  

The video also features footage inside the room where Planned Parenthood processes the parts of unborn children and includes footage showing the remains of an unborn child killed at 18 weeks. 




UPDATE: The full footage is below

Courts tell Center for Medical Progress to not release certain footage, videos featuring Planned Parenthood still being released

In the wake of the Center for Medical Progress videos featuring Planned Parenthood’s practice of trafficking in fetal body parts, other organizations who were caught in the undercover videos have sued to keep that footage from being released.  They clearly want to hide this footage from the public. 

StemExpress is a company which buys fetal parts from Planned Parenthood in California.  According to an interview with CNN, the Center for Medical Progress’ David Daleiden was able to have a lunch meeting with executives from StemExpress and during that meeting the StemExpress executives discussed obtaining intact aborted children. 

StemExpress filed suit in to prevent the Center for Medical Progress from releasing that footage.  The Los Angeles Superior Court issued a restraining order that prevents them from releasing the footage from that meeting until the scheduled August 19 hearing. 

The Center for Medical Progress was also able to attend conferences of National Abortion Federation (NAF), an association of abortion providers, and have discussion with executives from the organization.  In order to prevent that footage from being released, NAF filed suit in San Francisco and recently obtained a temporary restraining order which prevents the Center for Medical Progress from releasing footage which was shot at their conferences until a hearing on August 27. 

The judge in that case, Judge William Orrick, is a big donor to President Obama and his wife is an abortion advocate. 

This lawsuits do not prevent the Center for Medical Progress from releasing videos shot inside Planned Parenthood abortion clinics. 

Majority of U.S. Senate votes to defund Planned Parenthood, bill is blocked by filibuster

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 53-46 to defund Planned Parenthood and direct tax dollars which are currently funding America’s leading abortion provider to instead go to community health centers.  In the U.S. Senate, 60 votes are needed to overcome a filibuster. 

Both of Michigan's U.S. Senators, Senator Debbie Stabenow and Senator Gary Peters, voted against the bill.  

The vote, which failed 53-46, would have redirected the more than $500 million in taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood receives annually to community health centers as a way to allow women to continue to receive care. The vote comes in the wake of four videos released by anti-abortion activists depicting Planned Parenthood employees apparently discussing the sale of body parts of aborted fetuses, which is illegal......

Monday’s vote represented the first official attempt to move forward on the issue. Sens. Joni Ernst and Rand Paul led the crafting of the legislation, which only two Democrats, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Joe Donnelly of Indiana, joined the vast majority of Republicans in voting for. Only Republican Sen. Mark Kirk voted against the bill, though McConnell switched his vote to “no” as a way to ensure he can bring the measure up again in the future.

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Unsurprisingly and unconvincingly, the Detroit Free Press defends Planned Parenthood

The Detroit Free Press editorial board has issued an editorial defending Planned Parenthood’s practice of trafficking in the body parts and organs of unborn human beings.  

The Free Press works diligently to downplay Planned Parenthood’s role in the abortion industry, parroting the typical talking points.  Free Press readers would be surprised to learn that Planned Parenthood is the leading abortion provider in America, providing more than 300,000 abortions a year, and that by any reasonable estimation abortion makes up a very sizable portion (30%-40%) of their clinic revenue.         

The editorial claims the videos exposing Planned Parenthood are a “sophisticated, concerted attack unparalleled in its history, aided and abetted by presidential politics.”

The Free Press says the videos are “carefully edited.”  Notably, the Free Press editorial doesn’t link directly to the full, unedited videos for readers to make up their owns minds.  Nor does the Free Press even seem to be aware that two more videos were released this week.  There’s a reason for that.  The Free Press would prefer to brush aside discussions and images of hearts, lungs, livers and brains being harvested and trafficked by saying, “Some comments made by Planned Parenthood officials are, without question, distasteful.” 

Any sensible person would wonder which comments were distasteful and why they were so distasteful.  The Free Press feels no need to share that information. 

That’s because the editorial board at the Detroit Free Press doesn’t have the courage to look at what’s on those videos, much less defend it.  They don’t want their readers to know that a Planned Parenthood employee says, “And another boy!” after sifting through the remains of an unborn child and discovering male genitalia.

Or hear Mary Gatter, the President of Planned Parenthood’s Medical Director’s Council, haggle over what price their affiliate would be compensated with for the tiny organs. 

Or hear Savita Ginde, Vice-President and Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains, say, “I think a per item thing works a little better, because we can see how much we can get out of it.”

Also missing from the Free Press editorial is any mention of how Planned Parenthood abortionists openly discussed changing their techniques in order to retrieve organs that are intact. This is a violation of law and the consent agreement Planned Parenthood provides to women. The Free Press wouldn’t want their readers to know that Planned Parenthood Medical Director Deborah Nucatola describes how she crushes the body of an unborn child above and below the abdomen but attempts to preserve the abdomen so the organs remain intact. 

The Detroit Free Press editorial board gladly blind themselves and their readers to the atrocities which occur everyday in Planned Parenthood abortion clinics.  They do this because they realize that if America sees what really happens behind closed doors, support for abortion may dwindle as our society begins to recognize that these aren’t clump of cells being removed, but tiny humans with intact organs who are being dismembered. 

Contact U.S. Senators, urge them to support defunding Planned Parenthood

Within the next week, the U.S. Senate will vote on whether to defund Planned Parenthood.  In the wake of a series of videos exposing Planned Parenthood's practice of trafficking in the body parts and organs of unborn children, legislation has been introduced stop federal funds from going to the abortion industry giant.  The legislation, S. 1881, is sponsored by Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and will prevent funds from going to Planned Parenthood and make those funds available to community health centers.

While both of Michigan's U.S. senators, Senator Debbie Stabenow and Senator Gary Peters are long time abortion advocates and supporters of Planned Parenthood, prolife people must let them know where we stand.  

Contact information for Senator Stabenow and Senator Peters can be found here.  

Let them know that tax dollars shouldn't be going to an organization willing to traffic in the body parts of unborn human beings.  According to their latest annual report, Planned Parenthood and their affiliates received more than $528 million from taxpayers in 2013-2014. An organization caught trafficking in body parts does not deserve 1/2 a billion dollars in taxpayer funds. 

Fourth video exposing Planned Parenthood selling parts of children released

The Center for Medical Progress has released their fourth undercover video exposing Planned Parenthood’s practice of selling the body parts of aborted children.  This video takes place in Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains and features a conversation with abortionist Savita Ginde, who is Vice President/Chief Medical Officer at Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains.

The video also features conversations in the POC (product of conception) room where Ginde, a medical assistant and the actor look at the remains of aborted children and discuss which parts are usable including brain, eyeballs, stomach, kidney, and heart. At the end of the video, the medical assistant sees male genitalia in the remains and says “And another boy!”

You can view the video below.  It contains disturbing footage of what happens every day in abortion clinics around our country. 



UPDATE: Below is the full footage.

Prolifers rally in Lansing to defund Planned Parenthood

Both MLive and WLNS covered a rally at Michigan’s Capitol yesterday which called on the federal government to defund abortion giant Planned Parenthood in light of the recent videos exposing Planned Parenthood selling parts of unborn children after they are aborted.

Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America, performing more than 300,000 abortions a year. 

From the MLive story:

The non-profit reproductive health organization has been under fire in recent weeks after the release of secretly filmed videos, including a clip of an official negotiating the sale of fetal tissue from aborted fetuses for research purposes.

"I'm absolutely horrified by it," said Marie Gatica of Students for Life of America at the University of Michigan-Flint.

"We're here today to say enough is enough. We have tolerated Planned Parenthood for far too long," said Gatica, 18.

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Third undercover video exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts released

The third video released by Center for Medical Progress is entitled, “Human Capital - Episode 1: Planned Parenthood’s Black Market in Baby Parts.”  It features an interview with Holly O’Donnell, a woman who formerly worked for StemExpress.  StemExpress is a company which buys parts of aborted children from Planned Parenthood affiliates. 

The video also features footage inside a Planned Parenthood “POC”(product of conception)  room where the organs and parts of unborn children are sorted after they are aborted.          

In the POC room while discussing how much the actors would pay the clinic for the organs, Colorado-based abortionist Savita Ginde says, “No, and the, I think a per item thing works a little better, because we can see how much we can get out of it.”
   
View the video below.  Some of the contents may be disturbing. 

Senators Stabenow and Peters should support Planned Parenthood investigation

Right to Life of Michigan calls on U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters to support an investigation into Planned Parenthood Federation of America's fetal organ harvesting programs.

On July 22, a bipartisan group of 50 U.S. Senators sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell asking for full cooperation with congressional investigations. Neither Senator Stabenow nor Senator Peters signed the letter.

Right to Life of Michigan President Barbara Listing said, "Michigan citizens deserve to have their elected officials advocating for them. They must make sure federal laws are being followed and citizens' hard-earned tax dollars are not supporting organizations that violate the law."

Two recent undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress show statements from Planned Parenthood staff discussing the sales of fetal organs following abortions, and the changing of abortion procedures to accommodate organ harvesting. Selling human fetal tissue for valuable consideration and altering abortion procedures in order to obtain fetal tissue are violations of federal law.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates received $528.4 million in tax dollars in 2013-2014, according to their annual report. They performed 327,653 abortions in 2013.

Listing said, "People are uncomfortable with this callous disregard for the value of human life, whether or not they support abortion. Their voices must be heard."

A full investigation is needed to determine the truth, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America should comply with all congressional requests for information and statements from their staff.

Michigan elected officials speak out about Planned Parenthood

In response to videos showing Planned Parenthood executives discussing the selling of fetal body parts, elected officials in Michigan are speaking out.  

On July 21, both Representative Bill Huizenga and Representative Tim Walberg spoke on the floor of Congress to support the unborn and against Planned Parenthood.





On July 22, Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley released a statement regarding the videos.    

The footage released is more than disturbing and although there have been no formal complaints or allegations in Michigan, it is important for the state to be proactive for the protection of our residents. I will be working closely with LARA and DHHS to review inspection protocols, as well as adherence to laws, policies and procedures in Michigan to ensure illegal practices are not occurring.

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