[The Federalist] When Congress conducted an investigation on fetal tissue trafficking at Planned Parenthood following the 2015 release of undercover videos captured by the Center for Medical Progress, the abortion giant repeatedly stated reasons the federal law against fetal trafficking didn’t apply to its facilities, including one branch claiming it did not even have a fetal tissue program. But when Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) associates were questioned under oath in subsequent depositions, those claims proved to be false. On Wednesday, Planned Parenthood asked a U.S. District Court judge to censor video footage of those depositions.A new video released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) on Thursday features testimonies given by PPFA associates contradicting former claims made by PPFA attorneys to Congress, media, and federal courts.
Documents show that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Texas repeatedly claimed it did not have a fetal tissue program, and that the only tissue transfer it participated in was donating placenta to a University of Texas medical branch. When questioned under oath, Melissa Farrell, the vice president of research at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, admitted her branch sold the "products of conception in its entirety," which means everything removed from a woman during an abortion, including the fetus, the placenta, the umbilical cord, and the amniotic sac.
Farrell’s testimony dispels PPFA’s documented claims that it was donating only placentas, which is considered an organ of all fetuses in utero.