New Planned Parenthood video: official discusses delivery of 'intact fetal cadavers'
August 04, 2015
In the latest in a shocking series of undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, an official at a Planned Parenthood clinic discusses delivery of babies who are aborted intact, and speaks of late-term abortions that would seem to violate state laws.
Melissa Farrell, the research director at Gulf Coast (Texas) Planned Parenthood, tells undercover reporters that her branch of the organization helps with the "diversification of the revenue stream." Directly contradicting the claim that Planned Parenthood only recoups its costs by the sale of fetal tissues, she says: "I think everyone realizes, especially because my department contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization..."
In discussing the prices that Planned Parenthood could command for fetal organs, Farrell explains that administrative costs can be calculated along with "anything that we piggyback onto that for collection purposes."
The Planned Parenthood official also speaks about altering abortion procedures in order to maximize the change that organs will remain intact; she says that "we deviate from our standard in order to do that."
Farrell also reveals that some of the doctors working at the Planned Parenthood clinic are collecting samples of fetal tissue for their own research. It is not clear whether the woman procuring abortions realize that their babies' organs are being harvested for private research, much less that the clinic earns extra income by changing abortion techniques to preserve intact organs.
The latest undercover video from the Center for Medical Progress was released after a California judge issued a restraining order that forbids the release of videos showing employees of the National Abortion Federation. No employees of that organization appeared in the video released on August 4.
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