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If Cecile Richards is worried about "tone," she'll be mortified with this video, the fourth released by the Center for Medical Progress.
A new undercover video exposes top-level Planned Parenthood executives callously sifting through pieces of aborted children, looking for "five star" kidneys, hearts, stomachs, and intact body parts, and even commenting on the sex of a preborn child.
BREAKING: Planned Parenthood director caught on tape selling aborted ‘baby parts’
An undercover video recorded by the non-profit organization, Center for Medical Progress, shows Planned Parenthood Federation Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, discussing their fetal parts business.
Nucatola is seen in the video having lunch with actors posing as buyers who are interested in purchasing the body parts of babies who have been aborted. The Planned Parenthood senior staffer notes how abortion procedures are modified to ensure that requested body parts can be collected. She says:
“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”
Nucatola also describes how Planned Parenthood abortionists move the preborn child into a breech delivery position so that the body can be preserved. This account is an almost exact medical description of partial-birth abortions which are illegal in the United States. In the video, Nucatola describes the procedure:
"I’d say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps.
"The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is calvarium. Calvarium—the head—is basically the biggest part. ...
"We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact. And with the calvarium, in general, some people will actually try to change the presentation so that it’s not vertex. ...
"So if you do it starting from the breech presentation, there’s dilation that happens as the case goes on, and often, the last step, you can evacuate an intact calvarium at the end."
Medial diagram of a partial-birth abortion procedure where the child is delivered breech, except for the head.
Planned Parenthood, though, appears to be concerned internally about the legality of their own behavior, as Nucatola notes how, “At the national office, we have a Litigation and Law Department which just really doesn’t want us to be the middle people for this issue right now.”
U.S. federal law states that, "It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration if the transfer affects interstate commerce."
Live Action President Lila Rose has been active for years in exposing wrongdoing at Planned Parenthood through undercover investigations. She responded to the disturbing investigative video, saying:
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.
Nurse who assisted in abortions now pro-life, opposes abortion
A nurse identified only as “Julia” talked about her experience as a nurse at a teaching hospital that did abortions. Her story appears at Priests for Life. She says:
I was a nurse practicing in North Carolina. I worked on a Gynecology/tumor unit at a teaching hospital. The unit included 4 prostaglandin abortion beds. The babies who were aborted were between 18-20wks of age. Most women were young, but occasionally there were patients whose babies had life threatening defects. I assisted the doctor in the initial placement of the prostaglandin. Then the women were left on the floor to deliver.
In an abortion by prostaglandin, powerful hormones are used to induce labor and the woman essentially gives birth, but to a baby that’s too young to survive. The contractions are so violent that they can kill the baby and are extremely painful for the mother. Babies aborted by prostaglandin often have bruising over their entire bodies. For the most part, the abortion business stopped using prostaglandin because so many babies were born alive.
Julia says that seeing an actual abortion or delivery is so much different than seeing a video or pictures of one:
One thing that is often forgotten by people is that there is a big difference between a picture of a baby at a certain number of weeks pregnant, and seeing and experiencing a birth. There is a sensation of life, of a living thing. It is like the difference between a picture of a puppy and a real puppy. Even a movie does not capture the whole picture. All of your senses are involved.
It did not take many abortions before Julia realized that what she was participating in was wrong:
After the second abortion I began changing my own thoughts about abortions and after a few more I could no longer participate. After several more years, my faith began to grow and with that my guilt increased. I spoke with a therapist and my parish priest. I asked for God’s forgiveness, but it took a while before I could let go of my guilt.
Now I want to do what I can to stop abortions.
Because Julia chose not to reveal too much about her identity, I was unable to interview her and don’t know what she’s currently doing… But clearly she was affected by what she saw. Below is a picture of a baby aborted by prostaglandin at 20 weeks.
The baby was aborted at Northwest General Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Smuggled out of a pathology lab with other aborted children in 1996, the baby was given to Citizens for Pro-Life Society and given a Christian burial. Before the burial, pro-lifers took photos of all of the aborted children to document their existence. You can see the photos here.
As the founder of America's largest abortion chain, Margaret Sanger's ideology for Planned Parenthood was cemented in eugenics, the belief and practice that aims to eliminate certain groups of people.
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Most people associate the words “drop box,” with the online file-sharing tool that allows users to share data across computers and smartphones from anywhere, instantly. But for Jong-rak Lee, a pastor from Seoul, South Korea, the term has a very different meaning. For Lee, a drop box is a way to save hundreds of unwanted infants from being abandoned on the crowded streets of Seoul each year.
Author Nancy Day quotes abortionist Ed Jones (pseudonym), who had worked at Planned Parenthood for four years at the time of the interview:
This can burn you out very, very quickly… not so much by the physical labor as the emotional part of what’s going on. When you do an ultrasound, particularly if you have children, and you see a fetus there, kicking, moving, living, doing things that your own child does, bringing it’s thumb to its mouth, and things like that – it’s difficult. Then, after the procedure, sometimes we have to actually look at the specimen, and you see arms and legs and things like that torn off…It does take an emotional toll.
Nancy Day. Abortion: Debating the Issue (New York: Enslow Publishing, 1995) Quoted from Clinicquotes.
This month, Pampers released a new ad: “A Newborn Journey of Firsts.” Pampers has been known in the past for its beautiful, visually stirring ads that broadcast a pro-life message. A previous ad called babies miracles who “deserve protection” and referred to a baby on an ultrasound screen as a “he” instead of an “it.”
This time, Pampers’s ad — which has already received over 860,000 views on YouTube — opens as a mother lovingly caresses her pregnant belly. The scene switches to an incredible ultrasound where a baby is moving in the womb and, as Pampers puts it, is giving her “first hello.”
Every abortion is a horrific experience for the unborn child involved, but some are particularly physically horrific for the mothers as well.
Molly* – a beautiful girl with a sweet smile and an easy laugh – grew up in a Christian home. Taught to save sex for marriage, she changed her mind after she’d been dating Darren*. He said he loved her, and in her words, she “gave in.”
Molly shares about the day she knew she was pregnant:
One day I just knew I was pregnant and I told Darren I needed a test. We went to Target, and I went into the bathroom there and saw the positive test sign. Thoughts started swarming in my head and my heart. What would I do? What would people think? I didn’t even have to tell Darren; he knew. We walked out to the car and I lost it – bawling and crying and screaming.
That night we went home after much talking with a friend. Darren ordered us parenting books that night, and it seemed things would be ok. But thoughts of doubt filled us both. Darren suggested an abortion. Never in my life would I think of that. As a child who was adopted and given a second chance I couldn’t do it.
But, despite her resolve, Molly started to think about abortion. Darren kept talking about it, suggesting that it could be the answer to their unplanned pregnancy. Molly felt like her mind was being overrun with thoughts and feelings that she never, not in a million years, wanted to consider.
Molly says:
To this day I feel sick that the thought [of abortion being the answer] even for a moment crept in me.
And yet, because abortion is pushed in our society as a quick, easy answer, many young women in Molly’s circumstances consider it. Many of them are convinced it is the only solution – despite the long term effects on women and despite the children whose lives are taken in cruel ways.
Molly shares what happened next:
Darren made an appointment at Planned Parenthood for an abortion and took me in. I knew I wasn’t going to do it. They did an ultrasound, and I saw my baby. Tiny as he was, I was only three and a half weeks pregnant.
I burst into tears as the doctor told me I just simply had to take a pill that night and the next morning. How could murder be so easy? So easy to hide? So easy to be persuaded?
I looked at Darren and told him he needed to look at the ultrasound for two days and let me know his choice. He told me no, later that night.
As Molly explains,ultrasounds are incredibly powerful – even at early stages ofpregnancy. Almost more than anything else, they demonstrate the humanity of unborn children. At the time Molly saw her baby’s ultrasound, his heart had already been beating for days.
Even after being strong enough to walk out of Planned Parenthood and refuse the abortion, Molly’s struggles for her baby weren’t over yet.
As we started to plan for our baby and telling my parents and friends, Satan just pounded my heart saying, “Look how easily you could hide this. People will never know; it’s much easier to be rid of this baby then face the world’s judgment for having a baby before being married.”
I stood strong knowing God had a plan, though, and that things would work out.
A few weeks later, I was in horrible pain and sick. Darren rushed me to the ER where I was told I was having a baby boy. I was also told something was wrong. Upon doing their ultrasound, they said they found my baby had hydrocephalus.
And to start considering termination of pregnancy. My heart sank….
The next week I prayed 24/7. I started wondering if this was happening because I considered an abortion. I knew I wouldn’t abort even if my baby was sick. We went and saw a specialist; they said he could be brain dead. He might not live. He would have a deformed body.
But I started to praise God for the life I had inside me and said it will be ok.
Many parents in Molly’s situation give in to the pressure to abort their baby. They’re told it’s the right choice; they’re told they’re young and can have a “perfect” baby later. And yet, only two weeks after Molly was given the news of her baby’s supposed deformities and problems, she was told that he was actually fine. A number of babies have their supposed deformities naturally correct themselves in the womb. Unfortunately, high percentages of parents abort before they ever give their baby a chance or recognize their baby’s inherent value, defect or not.
A test still showed that Molly’s baby might have Down Syndrome – yet another reason that parents quickly choose abortion or are pressured into it. Over 90% of babies diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted, despite the good life that many people with Down Syndrome go on to have.
About the test, Molly says:
I never let that affect my pregnancy. There was no choice in my mind at that point. I was having my baby. I’ll never forget when they told me Grayson* had problems and to terminate my pregnancy, and today, he’s 100% fine. Today, he’s the brightest, healthiest, smartest little boy ever. I can’t believe the doctor even thought it was the right thing to abort.
In Molly’s case, the doctors couldn’t have been more wrong. But even if Grayson had been born with a defect or deformity, Molly is confident that she still would have been thrilled and blessed with her choice to give life to her son, no matter what.
With all her heart, Molly believes that every baby – defect, deformity, or not – is worth saving. She knows that our value is not wrapped up in our physical traits or abilities. Our value is much more basic than that: each of us is specially created by a God who loves us and who wants us to live.
*Names are changed by request of “Molly.”
A couple years ago, I wrote about why “there is no such thing as ‘personally pro-life.‘” But even beyond the question of whether it’s possible to be “personally pro-life,” there’s the question of whether it’s good enough.
Even if we could be “personally pro-life,” would it matter?
Well, since abortion seems to be a harder topic to wrap ourselves around these days, let’s bring up a few easy ones.
Is it good enough to be “personally pro-consent” when it comes to rape?
Is it good enough to be “personally pro-designated driver” when it comes to drunk driving?
Is it good enough to be “personally pro-paying-for-what-I-buy” when it comes to theft?
Sure, if we’re personally convinced of the right action in these situations, it’s likely that, when faced with the situation, we’ll make the right choice.
But, if we think it’s important enough for women to have the right to consent to sex and not be raped, why wouldn’t we support a law about that? If we think we’d never drink and drive because it puts innocent lives at risk, why wouldn’t we support outlawing it? If we believe it’s proper, moral, and right to pay for a sweater instead of holding up Dillard’s with a gun until they give us the sweater and all the money in the cash box, why wouldn’t we want to ban others from committing a violent robbery?
Simply put, if something is truly important, civilized societies often need to put the weight of law behind it.
How many more robberies, rapes, and drunk driving do you think would occur if these actions weren’t outlawed? How many more people would feel free to commit these acts that harm and endanger other human beings if it wasn’t against the law?
Making harmful, violent acts against innocent people illegal doesreduce the frequency of these acts. It also sets into law that we, as a humane, dignified society, value the lives of innocent, helpless human beings. We do not support, fund, or condone the actions of those who intentionally harm other people.
It’s not just wrong for me to kill this 6-7 week old baby; it’s wrong for anyone to kill her.
So, no, being “personally pro-life” isn’t good enough. Relegating our beliefs to the corner of our “personal” lives does little good for anyone else or for society as a whole. And it surely does nothing to help the innocent people who can’t speak up for themselves.
Plus, when something is only a “personal” belief, it’s a lot easier to change it when your “personal” circumstances change. This is why, sometimes, “personally pro-life” people get abortions anyway. They “personally” thought abortion was wrong, but they also “personally” don’t think they’re ready for a child, and since it’s a “personal” decision anyway, they can “personally” go have an abortion, and no one needs to know.
It just doesn’t work well that way. Either I’m pro-slavery or I’m pro-freedom. Either I’m pro-rape or I’m pro-consent. Either I’m pro-robbery or I’m pro-paying. Either I’m pro-abortion or I’m pro-life. There’s nothing “personal” about it.
These actions – abortion included – either violate the rights of human beings every time they happen (not just when I’m personally involved), or they don’t. And it couldn’t be clearer that a basic human right is being violated every single time abortion happens.
It’s time we took a bold stand. It’s no longer good enough to say what we “personally” are. We either are or we aren’t, and we either support society saving the lives of innocent human beings, or we don’t.
So, are you “personally pro-life,” or are you ready to declare that you’re pro-life?
Nicki Minaj is a female hip-hop powerhouse with millions of fans around the world. Most of her songs have been upbeat, but she says that her latest album, The Pinkprint, will be more personal. Afterhinting at an abortion earlier this year, Minaj has finally opened up to her fans about the experience in a Rolling Stone interview, admitting that she had an abortion, and that it has haunted her all her life.
If Planned Parenthood has any commitment to women, it’s to help them kill their unborn babies. In its new annual report released Monday, Planned Parenthood says it performed327,653 abortionsin the 2013 reporting year.
Once again, hundreds of thousands of babies died in the name of “women’s health.” The number of abortions is up a few hundred over last year, which may not seem like much – until you realize that’s hundreds more human lives snuffed out with machines so Planned Parenthood can make more money. And for their efforts, the abortion leader also received $528,400,000, or 41% of its annual revenue, in taxpayer funding.
An anonymous abortionist talks about the difference between doing a D&E to remove a dead baby from a miscarriage and performing an elective abortion:
If it’s [a miscarriage], you’re like [with a pained voice], “Oh, here’s this little life!” And you know that it was meant to be because, that’s what happened. And if it’s an abortion, you just feel sad that the woman wasn’t able to raise the child.
Over 35,000 people have signed a petition calling for an end to the taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion chain. Signers of Live Action’s petition to defund Planned Parenthood are not only outraged that their hard-earned dollars are financing the killing of millions of preborn children in the womb each year, but that taxpayers are forced to fund a corporation riddled with deception, criminal offenses and abuse.
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