{"id":328095,"date":"2025-03-19T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=328095"},"modified":"2025-03-18T20:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:20:29","slug":"defund-planned-parenthood-fresh-spinal-cords-gonads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/defund-planned-parenthood-fresh-spinal-cords-gonads\/","title":{"rendered":"DEFUND Planned Parenthood: Providing ‘fresh’ aborted ‘spinal cords’ and ‘gonads’ for ‘research’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood currently receives nearly $700 million each year in federal taxpayer funding, despite the fact that, for years, they have aided in the harvesting of aborted body parts. In 2015, some of its affiliates were exposed for allegedly accepting large sums of money from tissue procurement agencies who entered their facilities to collect specific body parts of babies Planned Parenthood had aborted. An effort to defund Planned Parenthood failed 10 years ago, but under the Trump administration, there is a renewed conversation about ending the taxpayer funding of America’s leading abortion provider — which has failed to report<\/a> and covered up<\/a> the sexual abuse of minors, and more.<\/p>\n

A decade ago, the Center for Medical Progress began releasing a series of undercover videos that purported to show Planned Parenthood executives taking part in the illegal trafficking of fetal body parts \u2014 a sort of side hustle for the abortion corporation. Some of those videos showed top staff members discussing specific body parts.<\/p>\n

One such video, released in September of 2015, featured Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, who was Senior Medical Advisor for Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) at the time; Dr. Vanessa Cullins, who was Vice President for External Medical Affairs for PPFA; and Deborah VanDerhei, who was National Director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAPS) at PPFA. On the records, they appear to discuss the business of selling baby body parts with undercover journalists posing as potential buyers.<\/p>\n

Westoff told<\/a> the journalists, “We’ve just been working with people [procurement agencies and researchers] who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural. People want spinal cords, so I mean, that sort of thing. Certainly, everything we provide \u2014 oh, gonads! Oh my God, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh.”<\/p>\n