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Selling body parts of aborted babies is just business, and a good idea for business practices too, say Planned Parenthood executives in the latest undercover video from the center for Medical Progress.<\/p>\n

The 10th<\/sup> video features Vanessa Russo, Compliance Program Administrator, Planned Parenthood Keystone, and Deborah VanDerhei, National Director, Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAPS), Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a discussion on the harvesting and selling of baby body parts. They outline that the practice is a \u201cgood idea\u201d and even indicate the support of Planned Parenthood\u2019s Senior Counsel for Law & Policy, Roger K. Evans.<\/p>\n

In the video, Russo is venting<\/a> about what she calls \u201cridiculous laws\u201d on the selling of baby body parts.<\/p>\n

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She says:<\/a><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m a researcher at heart, and I love the idea of being able to do this and participate in research. I would love to see this happen in some way\u2026. I feel like sometimes, like, this is my first time here, I\u2019ve only been with the organization a year and a half, so I don\u2019t know the history like somebody who\u2019s been there for a long, long time.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve always been a supporter, I\u2019ve been a patient, now I\u2019m working here, and I just feel like we shouldn\u2019t participate in ridiculous discussions. We should participate in a valid [way?]. And that should not curtail our business [motions to Buyer table] for ridiculousness. Maybe curtail our business for an actual real discussion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

VanDerhei then says<\/a> that curtailing was not the message she heard.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think anybody was suggesting that you curtail. The message to me, that I heard today, was, \u201cGo for it.\u201d We think it\u2019s a great idea. Just do it right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Russo agrees <\/a>that doing it right is important:<\/p>\n

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Exactly, and I understand that. But like, a company like this that wants to pay us, that wants to give our organization money for the tissue, I think that that\u2019s a valid exchange. And that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She also comments:<\/p>\n

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I sort of, my stance on that is like, we feel like we can’t consent to be bullied by ridiculous laws.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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After Russo has left, VanDerhei employs<\/a> Evans (the PP attorney) in her discussion with the Buyer, adding:<\/p>\n

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Because Roger said, \u201cI\u2019m gonna say a number of things and I only want you to go away with one message: I think this is a good idea<\/strong>. Now, here\u2019s what you need to look out for,\u201d and at the end of it, he said, \u201cAnd I just want to reiterate, I think this is a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Roger Evans came on the public scene in the undercover video debate when he wrote this letter<\/a> to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, replying in Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richard\u2019s stead, refusing to make Dr. Deborah Nucatola available to testify. Evans spent pages doing little more than accusing CMP and pro-lifers of being in the wrong. Evans is a wordsmith for certain, and VanDerhei conveys that in the video, when she notes that Evan\u2019s told them many things but emphasized only one: It\u2019s a good idea.<\/p>\n

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Exactly what part of fetal tissue selling is good, no one made clear. Maybe it\u2019s the part where they cut up intact babies who were born alive<\/a> so they can get as many parts as possible from them.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019s the part where doctors get to pick the babies from the lighted pie tables and identify the sex (\u201cAnother boy!<\/a>\u201d) or body parts (\u201cIs that thymus? Is that neural tissue?\u201d). Perhaps, it’s the part where, after brutally killing\u00a0 a child in an abortion, the Planned Parenthood abortionist returns to explain, “It’s a baby.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Russo doesn\u2019t note which laws she sees as \u201cridiculousness,\u201d but maybe it’s 42 U.S.C. 289g-2 of federal law, which says that the sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000.<\/p>\n

For these Planned Parenthood executives, the best ideas seem to be the ones that get them the most profit.<\/p>\n

The law preventing them from profiting off of women and dead children? “Ridiculous.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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