Fresh Outrage

By: American Decency Staff

“Everything we provide is fresh.”  No, this isn’t referring to garden produce at your local farmer’s market.  It’s not from a butcher at the supermarket meat counter. 

That statement came from a different kind of butcher – Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, senior medical advisor for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.  And what they provide “fresh” are the body parts of a freshly-killed baby.

Yesterday the Center for Medical Progress released their latest undercover video exposing the horror or Planned Parenthood. 

Westhoff , along with Dr. Vanessa Cullins, vice president for external medical affairs for Planned Parenthood, and Deborah VanDerhei, national director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers at Planned Parenthood, are recorded discussing not only the sale of baby body parts, but also admitting to the fact that what they’re doing is illegal.

In the recorded conversation, Westhoff states:  “We’ve just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac (heart), or they want eyes, or they want neural (brains), people want spinal cords.  So, I mean that sort of thing. Certainly, everything we provide—oh, gonads. Oh my god, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh.”

And what does Planned Parenthood get in exchange for those freshly-killed babies?  The undercover video shows Planned Parenthood’s Deborah VanDerhei boasting, “we have independent colleagues who generate a fair amount of income doing this.”

What about Planned Parenthood’s claim that they don’t make money from what they call their “fetal tissue donation” activities?    After all, it’s a federal felony to receive economic profit of any kind in exchange for human organs. 

But when you’re already breaking God’s law, what difference does man’s law make?  In another video clip Vanessa Russo, the compliance program administrator for Planned Parenthood Keystone in Pennsylvania, added:  “A company like this that wants to give our organization money for the tissue—I think that that’s a valid exchange, and that that’s okay.”

Russo went on to state that “we can’t consent to be bullied by ridiculous laws” and they shouldn’t “curtail our business for ridiculousness.”

While Planned Parenthood may have total disdain for the law of the land, what they do fear is bad public relations. 

“I have been talking to the executive director of the National Abortion Federation. We’re trying to figure this out as an industry, about how we’re going to manage remuneration, because the headlines would be a disaster,”VanDerhei stated in the undercover recording.

And Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Vanessa Cullins warned: “This is important. This could destroy your organization and us, if we don’t time those conversations correctly.”

Westhoff also stated, “Obviously, we would have the potential for a huge P.R. issue by doing this.”

Sadly, however, it seems that their fears are unwarranted.  The mainstream media has almost completely ignored this exposé of the barbaric murder of tiny babies and the callous dismemberment and illegal sale of their bodies.

As MRC NewsBusters reports:

Planned Parenthood executives’ fear and disgust of the media is laughable, as the media loyally serve as a PR firm for the abortion giant.

Since the release of CMP’s first video, the broadcast networks have proven hesitant to publicize the story – and when they did, they refused to even utter the word “baby.”

On Monday, MRC Culture found that ABC, NBC and CBS had aired a mere 0.13% of the CMP footage during their news shows – or 1 minute, 13 seconds of more than 16 hours. Likewise, a month ago, MRC Culture discovered the networks spent an embarrassing 0.008% of their news shows playing the CMP footage: 1 minute, 13 seconds out of 243 hours and 30 minutes.  …

ABC, NBC and CBS prioritized animals over aborted babies, covering the shooting of Cecil the lion more in one day than they did these videos in two weeks – as well as the birth of the National Zoo’s panda cubs.

The three networks haven’t mentioned the content of CMP’s last five videos. In fact, the networks haven't covered a single Planned Parenthood video release in more than one month.  …

Yet while the media ignores the legitimate news story of the gruesome killing and illegal trafficking of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood, many of our spineless representatives just hope the story will go away.  Republican leaders, who proudly run as “pro-life” candidates when they’re up for re-election, can’t find enough moral outrage to push for the defunding of Planned Parenthood.

David Daleiden, the project lead for Center for Medical Progress said in a statement: 

From email black-outs to contorted oxymorons like ‘donation for remuneration,’ the lengths to which Planned Parenthood leadership will go to cover-up their illegal sale of aborted baby parts are nothing less than the desperation of a guilty conscience. … Planned Parenthood runs their abortion and baby parts business in open disregard for the law and should be prosecuted immediately. Their taxpayer funding should be reassigned to Federally Qualified Health Centers, which provide more and comprehensive health services at locations outnumbering Planned Parenthood 20 to 1.

Yesterday Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called the strategy to defund Planned Parenthood "an exercise in futility."  Is this what we can expect from our so-called “pro-life” leaders?

The question that we pro-life voters need answered is – are the leaders of the House and the Senate just saying what they need to get elected?  Or do they really care about the lives that are cruelly scraped from their mothers’ wombs every day?

Call Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell; Speaker of the House John Boehner; and your own House representative and senators and let them know you expect them to defund Planned Parenthood now.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at:  202-224-3121. 
(A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the office of the Senator/Representative you request.)

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