Planned Parenthood sting video shows official promising intact fetuses

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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
The Center for Medical Progress has released a fifth undercover video in their campaign against Planned Parenthood
This latest 16-minute video features a Texas Planned Parenthood official bragging about her fetal-sales record
Footage also features lab workers showing undercover invesitgators organs of a 20-week aborted twin
Planned Parenthood has repeatedly denied selling fetal tissue for a profit - which is in violation of federal law

Published: 13:10 EST, 4 August 2015 | Updated: 16:10 EST, 4 August 2015

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The Center for Medical Progress on Tuesday released a fifth undercover video in its campaign targeting Planned Parenthood, this time focusing on a facility in Texas.

In this latest edited 16-minute installment, the head of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, is seen bragging about her branch's track record of fetal tissue sales and its ability to deliver fully intact fetal organs to clients.

On April 9, 2015, actors posing as representatives of a human biologics company met with Farrell at the Planned Parenthood center in Houston to discuss the prospect of obtaining intact fetal cadavers for the purposes of medical research.

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Director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, met with actors posing as representatives of a human biologics company back in April to discuss procuring intact fetus organs

High praise: During a lunchtime meeting, the female participant in the sting heaps praise on the Planned Parenthood boss for her ability to recognize the financial benefits in 'getting the right specimen and getting it intact'

Bragging rights: Farrell boasts to her companions that the specimen sales from her department contribute significantly to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s bottom line

‘Where we probably have an edge over other organizations, our organization has been doing research for many many years,’ explains Farrell.

She adds that when researchers need a specific body part from an aborted fetus, ‘We bake that into our contract, and our protocol, that we follow this, so we deviate from our standard in order to do that.’

If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. It’s all just a matter of line items.

Melissa Farrell

Under federal law, altering an abortion procedure to obtain organs is illegal.

She later says: ‘Telling you this, so we can get creative about when and where, and under what conditions can we interject something that is specific to the tissue procurement needs.’

The investigator inquires: ‘Can you alter, if we say, we need a liver?’

Farrell goes on to explain that the condition of harvested organs depends on many factors, including the patient’s anatomy, length of gestation and the placement of the fetus in the uterus.

'We're going to potentially be able to have some that will be more or less intact, and then some that will not be... but it’s something that we can look at exploring how we can make that happen so we have a higher chance,’ she notes.

Asked specifically if this means Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast can change abortion procedures to extract intact fetal tissues for research, Farrell affirms: ‘Some of our doctors in the past have projects and they’re collecting the specimens, so they do it in a way that they get the best specimens, so I know it can happen.’

Part 5: Intact fetuses 'line items' for Planned Parenthood

The video concludes with a trip to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s pathological laboratory, where the undercover duo ask to see fresh fetal body parts

The female undercover volunteer then launches into a discussion of the ‘business end’ of the transaction, telling Farrell that the compensation for specific specimens would be higher, ‘Because we know you're going to run into problems.'

Farrell responds by saying that the higher price for intact organs could be ‘framed‘ as costs associated with a later-term abortion, possible complications and 'administrative burden.'

‘If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this,’ she sums up for her would-be clients. ‘It’s all just a matter of line items.’

The bogus tissue buyer clarifies: 'so that our compensation that's higher to you for our specific specimen intact could be built into that.'

The video then skips ahead to a lunchtime meeting between the buyers and Farrell, during which the female participant in the sting heaps praise on the Planned Parenthood boss for her ability to recognize the financial benefits in 'getting the right specimen and getting it intact' by changing the abortion procedure 'just a little bit.’

Part 4: Fetal body parts deal negotiated in secret footage

Another: The Center for Medical Progress' third video featured two doctors discussing aborted fetal tissue pricing (above)

Opening up: There is also an interview with a Holly O'Donnell (above) who said she was tasked with procuring tissue from aborted tissues

Between mouthfuls of food, Farrell boasts to her companions that the specimen sales from her department contribute significantly to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s bottom line.

‘I think everyone realizes, especially because my department contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our research department is the largest in the United States. Larger than any the other affiliates’ combined,’ Farrell brags.

During a hearing in the Texas State Senate July 29, former Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast clinic director Abby Johnson estimated that the branch had previously earned as much as $120,000 a month off of aborted fetal tissue.

Earlier last month, Cecile Richards, the president of the organization, said in a TV interview that Planned Parenthood has done nothing illegal and is the target of a political smear campaign by anti-abortion activists.

The video concludes with a trip to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s pathological laboratory, where the undercover duo ask to see fresh fetal body parts to judge the quality of the specimens.

A lab worker responds with a chuckle that they 'had a really long day' and that all of the organs 'are mixed up together in a bag.'

The workers then proceed to show the fake 'buyers' a tray of body parts belonging to an aborted a 20-week twin.

The graphic footage depicts the Center or Medical Progress volunteers rummaging through human tissue and picking out intestines, lungs, limbs and eyeballs.

Cecile Richards, the president of the organization, said in a TV interview last month that Planned Parenthood has done nothing illegal

Part 3: Planned Parenthood's baby parts black market exposed

Planned Parenthood did not specifically respond to the release of this latest clip Tuesday, but the embattled organization has repeatedly denied selling fetal tissue for a profit - which is in violation of federal law - and said the pricing discussed in these videos are related to expenses that arise from handling and transporting the samples.

Officials with the organization previously claimed that the videos are selectively edited and that the group only recovers costs of the procedures — which is legal — and only gives the tissue to researchers with a mother's advance consent and in fewer than five states.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who called for an investigation into Planned Parenthood following the release of the first video July 14, released a statement Tuesday condemning the Gulf Coast branch of the organization.

'The latest video showing Planned Parenthood’s treatment of unborn children in a Houston clinic is repulsive and unconscionable,' Abbott stated. 'Selling baby body parts is the furthest thing imaginable from providing women’s healthcare, and this organization’s repeated and systematic disrespect for human life is appalling.

'The State of Texas is aggressively investigating this matter and must use all available legal remedies to address this depraved conduct.'

Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has announced that his state will be terminating its Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood in light of the Center for Medical Progress videos.

Senate Democrats succeeded Monday in stopping Republican legislation prohibiting federal funding for Planned Parenthood

Part 2: 2nd Planned Parenthood exec haggles over baby parts

Three of the previous four videos shot for the Center for Medical Progress focused on conversations with Planned Parenthood doctors about the selling and pricing of fetal tissue, while one showed two doctors dissecting aborted fetal tissue.

Planned Parenthood received more than $528million in taxpayer funding last year. That came in the form of government grants and contracts, as well as Medicaid reimbursements.

Federal and state taxpayer funding provides more than 40 per cent of its funding.

The fifth sting video was posted online one day after Democrats in the Senate blocked Republicans from defunding Planned Parenthood.

Sixty votes were needed to advance the legislation intended to deny the organization federal funds in the 100-person chamber; but it only received 53, with 46 voting against.

Monday's vote set the stage for a high-stakes showdown this fall, which could potentially bring about another government shutdown.

Planned Parenthood has grown from a single New York City birth control clinic opened by eugenics supporter Margaret Sanger in 1921 into a $1 billion organization with 820 clinics where 300,000 abortions are performed each year.

Part 1: Planned Parenthood dir admits 'selling fetus body parts'