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Statements from Pro-Life Organizations regarding trafficking of Fetal Body Parts and how you can contact your representative

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Early this morning, the Center for Medical Progress released the results of a three-year investigation into the handling of the remains of aborted babies at Planned Parenthood centers. What it uncovered was shocking. Officials at the highest levels of Planned Parenthood were aware of, and seemingly complicit in, the selling of whole cadavers and/or parts of the aborted babies for a profit. In support of its claims, CMP released a video showing Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s senior director of medical services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, describing how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted fetuses, and admitting she uses partial-birth abortions to supply intact body parts.

In reaction to this news, Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, released the following statement:

The sale of baby body parts and the committing of partial-birth abortion are both illegal throughout the United States. The fact that the senior director of medical services at the national office of Planned Parenthood freely admits to the organization being involved in both of these criminal activities should be cause for immediate action from all branches of the federal government. Planned Parenthood receives $528 million a year from taxpayers, and $400 million of that is from the Medicaid program. At the very least, Congress and the states should instantly suspend all Medicaid reimbursements to the organization.

In February 2000, Life Dynamics shocked the world when it revealed the outrageous sale of the parts of aborted babies in the United States. Life Dynamics had carefully collected a great deal of data—much of it from a Planned Parenthood affiliate. However, Planned Parenthood rallied its political forces and made a sham of a Congressional hearing into the matter. As the situation faded away, most people thought Planned Parenthood had stopped selling baby body parts.

But, as today’s announcement reveals, it simply went further underground and, if anything, became more brazen. In addition to the demand that the government suspend Medicaid reimbursements, American Life League calls on the members of Congress to immediately begin hearings and institute an investigation into Planned Parenthood. The organization must not be allowed to use its political muscle to continue to ignore the law. The purpose of Congressional action is to cut off every penny of taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood—forever!

Life Legal Defense Foundation released the following statement:

Life Legal Defense Foundation was finally able today to reveal its support of an undercover operation proving that Planned Parenthood routinely peddles the organs and tissues of babies aborted in its “health centers.” This systematic profiteering is known about and approved by officers at the abortion giant’s highest levels of authority. Planned Parenthood’s abortionists will even alter the abortion procedure in order to guarantee the tissues most sought after—regardless of what might be best for the aborting mother.

This “Human Capital” project was a nearly three-year-long undertaking produced by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP). Directed by CMP Project Lead David Daleiden, the effort secured audio and video recordings of Planned Parenthood administrators and abortionists casually agreeing to sell freshly-extracted parts from their abortions. CMP’s devastating expose of PP’s trade in body parts may be seen at centerformedicalprogress.org.

The video released today shows Planned Parenthood Federation of America Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, admitting to using illegal partial-birth abortions to get higher-quality fetal body parts to sell.

Life Legal gives the credit for bringing these shocking practices to light to David Daleiden. But Daleiden gives a lot of credit to Life Legal: “The Center for Medical Progress thanks Life Legal Defense Foundation for their initiative and foresight in consulting on and helping to develop this project.”

Familiar as we are with the contract killer’s practices, Life Legal can’t claim to be surprised by Planned Parenthood’s utter disregard for medical ethics. But we are delighted that it has been so ably and thoroughly documented by David Daleiden.

Life Legal is proud to have taken an active, essential role in exposing Planned Parenthood’s “Dr. Frankenstein” wrongdoing. Katie Short, Life Legal’s Vice-President for Legal Affairs, remarked, “Planned Parenthood’s unconscionable acts are recorded and proven. But it will take a lot of pressure to bring consequences to bear. After these revelations, the first thing every public official should be asked is why a penny of taxpayer money is going to fund any part of Planned Parenthood’s work.”

Having been with the project from its inception, Life Legal is committed to following through. Planned Parenthood will not lightly escape the judgment it has merited by trafficking in babies’ eyes, hearts, livers, muscles, and other organs and tissues.

Statement from Lila Rose, President of Live Action:

This investigation by the Center for Medical Progress reveals the unimaginable horror that is Planned Parenthood. The exploitation of human life, the cover-up, and the black market profiteering by America’s largest abortion chain is not only egregious and heartbreaking, but exposes how the abortion giant is corrupt to the core — from the CEO, Cecile Richards, down to the local clinic. As Live Action has investigated through the years, Planned Parenthood’s barbaric practices reveal their contempt for rule of law and human life. This latest expose of Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of baby parts for profit should be the final nail in the coffin for the abortion giant. Congress must take immediate action to stop all taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and end the bankrolling of this horrific human rights abuser.

Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, is calling on Americans and their religious leaders to pay close attention today, and in the coming weeks, to the new evidence that Planned Parenthood is involved in the selling of the body parts of the babies killed by the abortions it provides.

I have been involved for decades in the effort to expose the evidence that the abortion industry sells the body parts of the babies it kills,” Fr. Pavone stated, “and I welcome this new evidence provided by David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress. The undercover videos and documentation, which have begun to be publicized today, show how people at the highest levels of Planned Parenthood are negotiating the sale of body parts, and adjusting the way they perform abortions so that the body parts are more accessible. This violates both the law and the most basic sense of human decency. We have on our website, BabyBodyParts.com, the images of some of the order forms that were discovered back then — forms that ask that eyes, livers, brains, legs and other body parts be shipped on wet ice to the researchers who want them. This activity violates state and federal laws that prohibit the sale of human body parts. Moreover, this new evidence shows that Planned Parenthood is still using the partial-birth abortion procedure, which has also been banned by law at the state and federal level. We therefore call on Congress to investigate this activity and to stop federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Moreover, we call on the United States Senate to vote on and pass the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which will protect many of the babies whose bodies are being cut up and sold in this manner.

Find your Congressional representative here and ask them to investigate and defund Planned Parenthood for their illegal sale of baby parts.

For social media, use hashtag #PPSellsBabyParts.

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