Wednesday, September 16, 2015

US Funding of the Sale of Aborted Fetal Tissue Is a Moral Issue

Not only are Democrats standing firmly behind the foolhardy Obama Iran nuclear deal that he obstinately forced through the Senate using a Democrat filibuster that prevented both debate and a vote -- now Democrats in Congress are threatening to block passage of the budget because it defunds Planned Parenthood (PPFA). ~~~~~ Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating PPFA have said Republicans have no evidence that the women's health and abortion provider sold aborted fetal tissue for profit. The Democrat minority staff of the Committee's oversight subcommittee released a memo Wednesday trying to discredit claims by Republicans that PPFA illegally sold fetal body parts as alleged in a series of undercover videos from the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress (CMP). Committee ranking Democrat member Frank Pallone and oversight ranking member Diana DeGette said : "Despite the incendiary rhetoric, we have looked strictly at the facts. We are continuing to do our due diligence, but we have found these claims to be unsubstantiated. Instead, these attacks appear to be part of a coordinated campaign on the part of the CMP and others to simply discredit Planned Parenthood and undermine a woman's legal right to safe reproductive healthcare." ~~~~~ Here is dialogue from the latest CMP “Human Capital” series, the 10th undercover video showing Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts trafficking efforts. The video discusses the sale of fetal parts that Democrats deny. CMP says : “The video highlights conversations with Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, Senior Medical Advisor for PPFA; Dr. Vanessa Cullins, Vice President for External Medical Affairs for PPFA; and Deborah VanDerhei, National Director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAPS) at PPFA.” VanDerhei talks about “donation for remuneration,” referring to buying baby tissue, which CMP notes “carries the connotation of financial reward or benefit without regard for actual expenses.” VanDerhei says, “I have been talking to the executive director of the National Abortion Federation -- we’re trying to figure this out as an industry - about how we’re going to manage remuneration - because the headlines would be a disaster.” VanDerhei adds, “[W]e have independent colleagues who generate a fair amount of income doing this, which is why they don’t want a paper trail via email. It’s an issue that you might imagine we’re not really that comfortable talking about on email.” The 10th video then shows Dr. Deborah Nucatola in footage from the first CMP video, saying : “There are no guidelines on tissue procurement. And there will never be guidelines. Folks will ask the national office questions, and we certainly have answers to those questions, but we don’t have a policy per se, and that is by choice.” (The choice is clearly to distance the national PPFA from affiliates who traffic baby parts.) CMP then says, “Vanessa Cullins, the Vice President of External Medical Affairs, seems fully aware of the criminal exposure that fetal body parts sales present to PPFA when she says : "This is important. This could destroy your organization and us, if we don’t time those conversations correctly." She is talking to a prospective buyer. ~~~~~ Dear readers, the take-away from this video is that these doctors and officials know that many people have major problems with what they’re doing, and that they’re at best skirting the law. But instead of saying that carving up aborted babies for research material is good practice, they hide their deeds, refuse to state their policy and speak in euphemisms, and then they blame CMP for “heavily editing” the videos. These are all good indications that they know they are wrong. PPFA has abandoned ethics, instead seeking PR solutions. But, the issue is not whether Planned Parenthood has broken laws -- this is the reason Democrats will use to blame the GOP for a government shutdown, appealing to narrow legal arguments. The real question is moral -- does America really want to fund killing fetuses and cutting up the fetal tissue for profit.

3 comments:

  1. This whole subject to me so black & white, so right & wrong, so morally reprehensible. Roe v wade was bad law and it has been allowed to be the foundation of allowable worse law.

    Physicians who perform these procedures are nothing more than "mass murders." They are not physicians, medical practitioners ,,, they are butchers plain and simple. They indiscriminately kill developing children in the most brutal fashion. And they do it at constantly increasing number because inside Planned Parenthood someone , so where is keeping score as to the daily revenue that each "butcher" brings in in fetal body parts.

    How do these men & women who are most likely the most lower end of the OB/GYN professional community look themselves in the mirror each day and have pride in what they do?

    They should be held responsible for what they actually do - murder children.

    They are like the junk yard/scrape metal dealers that hope for auto accidents so they can cut up the cares and sell the metal for profit. Except the car cars are nothing more than metal and won't ever have the opportunity to fulfill their life purpose.

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  2. Has any or all of us taken a step back and objectively look at what is going on in the name of "it's my body and I can do what I want to with it" mentality?

    We are allowing the greatest gift that God gives some of us to be sucked out of the womb, bits and pieces cut off and the rest washed into a sink.

    God must shed a tear every time that happens. True evil exists in many forms - but surely these abortionists and their customers (for the most part) are surpreme.

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  3. The following is a response by Carly Fiorina last night in the republican debate to a question about Planned Parenthood ...

    "I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.' This is about the character of our nation. If we will not stand up and force President Obama to veto this bill, shame on us!"

    That's about as good and factual as any answer to the question about PP and abortion and reselling body parts could be.

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