According to the media video dispatch, a Dr. Westhoff, says to a prospective fetal organ buyer:
"...We’ve just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural ... Certainly, everything we provide–oh, gonads! Oh my God, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh ... Obviously, we would have the potential for a huge P.R. issue in doing this ... "The doctor then introduces the buyers to “national office abortion people” from Planned Parenthood.
At one point the National Director for CAPS, an "influential committee" with in Planned Parenthood, Deborah VanDerhei "...refers to payments for fetal tissue as “donation for remuneration...” CMP says that "...carries the connotation of financial reward or benefit without regard for actual expenses. VanDerhei explains, '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' ..."
CMP points to a possible cover-up of these transactions:
“...'Is this really worth getting–I don’t even know what in general, what a specimen generally brings in?' VanDerhei later asks a prospective buyer. When she is told $100 per specimen, she remarks, 'But we have independent colleagues who generate a fair amount of income doing this.' VanDerhei suggests that Planned Parenthood goes to great lengths to avoid leaving a paper trail about their fetal tissue activity: 'It’s an issue that you might imagine we’re not really that comfortable talking about on email.' ... In a conversation recorded between VanDerhei and Vanessa Russo, Compliance Program Administrator for Planned Parenthood Keystone in Pennsylvania, Russo argues, '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.' VanDerhei nods her head up and down and affirms, 'Mhm.' ..."CMP reminds us that the sale or purchse of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2), then tells us that "Vanessa Cullins, the Vice President of External Medical Affairs, seems fully aware of the criminal exposure that fetal body parts sales present to Planned Parenthood: 'This is important. This could destroy your organization and us, if we don’t time those conversations correctly,' she tells a prospective buyer..."
Planned Parenthood's efforts to counter CMP's expose has been to call for investigating the group that is releasing the videos, and at the end of August Planned Parenthood also called for CMP to release all video footage to "authorities" immediately:
"... Planned Parenthood Federation of America today called on anti-abortion activists who have been posting heavily edited videos for the last six weeks to immediately release their complete, unedited source video footage to the California attorney general ... A California-based group calling itself the Center for Medical Progress – whose leadership is connected to groups linked to bombings of women's health centers and the murder of an abortion doctor – has released eight videos in the last six weeks, including five videos of Planned Parenthood staff members. The videos focused on Planned Parenthood staff members have a total of at least 42 splices, where statements were edited to create the appearance of seamless conversations, changing the meaning of what people said in order to support CMP’s outrageous and false claims ... An expert report released yesterday determined that the secretly recorded videos were heavily edited and “significantly distort and misrepresent” actual events. Three teams of experts, including a video science instructor at the FBI National Academy, noted that supposed “full footage” that the group has released is edited, inaccurate, and unreliable, as are transcripts the group has produced. The experts noted that no unedited source footage has been released..."A statement by Planned Parenthood Federation of America Vice President, Dawn Laguens said:
"...“This group should immediately provide every minute of video footage they have of Planned Parenthood staff to the California attorney general. No unedited source footage has ever been provided publicly for any of these videos. Everything that’s been released has been edited, and experts have now said unequivocally that the video editing was deceptive and does not reflect actual events ... The question today is: Where is the full, unedited video footage that experts say was heavily edited to distort Planned Parenthood’s work, and why won’t this group release it? We know that some members of Congress and state legislators were shown these videos weeks before they were released. Did those politicians see full, unedited source footage? If they thought they saw wrongdoing on the videos they were secretly shown, why didn’t they immediately insist that the full videos all be given to proper authorities?..."Meanwhile, David Daleiden, the project leadfor CMP elaborates on the issue:
"...Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country, responsible for 327,000 abortions every year, and receives $528 million in taxpayer money each year ... 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 CEO Cecile Richards openly admits they receive ‘$60 per tissue specimen,’ and their contracts with StemExpress offer payments per fetus ‘determined in the clinic to be usable.’ 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..."HERE'S the latest VIDEO:
