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| Congressional Report: Planned Parenthood Organ Sales Are '€˜Pure Profit' |
| 2016-04-20 |
| [Free Beacon] Planned Parenthood abortion clinics profit from the sale of aborted baby organs, according to new documents released by a congressional committee investigating the organization’s practices. The U.S. House Select Panel on Infant Lives released a preview of its findings after a months-long review of internal documents obtained from the nation’s top abortionist, as well as organ procurement companies and buyers. The panel concluded that abortion clinics incur no additional costs in harvesting organs obtained from an already-aborted baby and that the sale or transfer of those organs represented "pure profit" for the clinic. "The [abortion clinic] has no costs so the payments from the [procurement business] to the [abortion clinic] are pure profit," the report concludes. "All costs are born by the [procurement business] or the customer. The payments from the customer to the PB exceed its cost by a factor of 300 to 400 percent." Pro-life activists said those practices run counter to federal law, which bars clinics from profiting off of the sale of baby body parts. "The abortion industry sells baby hearts, livers, brains, hands and other organs procured by a middleman company inside their facilities at no cost or effort to the facilities themselves. The facility receives upfront fees that can amount to five-figure sums every month and then the procurement companies resell organs for tens of thousands more--depending on the child’s characteristics," Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said in a release. "The documents make clear there is absolutely no cost to the abortion clinic so that all monies received go to their bottom line." The scandal began after investigators with the pro-life Center for Medical Progress released a series of videos capturing top Planned Parenthood officials discussing the group’s fetal organ sales in the summer of 2015. One top official was caught on camera saying that clinics generate a "fair amount of income" from the sales. The committee’s conclusions stand in contrast to Planned Parenthood’s repeated denials that it made any money from the sale of organs. The group claimed that all payments were to recoup costs. The abortionist announced last year it would no longer accept any payments from researchers or procurement companies for baby body parts. Planned Parenthood did not return a request for comment. The congressional panel will hold a hearing Wednesday morning to discuss the report. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 In the Market for Fetal Body Parts, a Baby’s Brain Sells for $3,340 |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-04-20 20:56 |
| #6 ...and then there is Soylent Green (pig feed if nothing else). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-04-20 17:29 |
| #5 They got kidneys and livers don't they? Also a good market for corneas, skin, tendons, etc. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-04-20 11:50 |
| #4 Good luck with that Darth. No Heart. No Brains. No Soul. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-04-20 11:44 |
| #3 I say we harvest organs for the employees and sell them for 'pure profit'. Just make sure a cut gets to the political elite and all will be good! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-04-20 11:37 |
| #2 Wait till the snowflakes who can't deal with the racism of Woodrow Wilson find out about Margaret Sanger (and throw in some real xenophobia for spice). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-04-20 09:34 |
| #1 The nation’s largest abortion provider gave Clinton its Margaret Sanger Award in 2014, a symbolic cap to the $67,000 in campaign donations that Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have received from Planned Parenthood employees throughout their political careers. Link |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-04-20 04:15 |