A new undercover video released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) shows that Planned Parenthood has been selling the parts of aborted babies without the permission of the mother, a violation of federal law.
“If there was a higher gestation and the technicians needed it, there were times they would just take what they want,” said Holly O’Donnell, the ex-procurement tech for StemExpress who is featured in the 10-minute release.
“And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.”
CMP has been the target of two federal judges who have tried to stop the group from releasing videos. However, the restraining order that bars release of footage involving StemExpress, a body parts sales company, only bars footage of three executives of the company at a restaurant in May. The video released Wednesday contains a former StemExpress employee not taken at the May meeting.
O’Donnell said in the video that Planned Parenthood looks for opportunities to harvest baby parts.
“They give you a sheet, and it’s everybody for that day, who’s coming in for an ultrasound, who’s coming in for an abortion, medical or a late-term abortion,” O’Donnell said. “Pregnancy tests are potential pregnancies, therefore potential specimens. So it’s just taking advantage of the opportunities.”
O’Donnell said one time she was being ordered to get consent from a woman who was crying and throwing up as a result of the drugs used in her abortion.
“The women I worked for were… cold. They don’t care,” O’Donnell recalled. “They just wanted their money. They didn’t care that a girl was throwing up in the trash can, and crying… and even, there were times to when the patients would ask me, they would come in and be crying and say, ‘Should I do this? Should I be doing this?’”
The woman in the video, Holly O’Donnell, says that she is now pro-life after experiencing the situations at Planned Parenthood.
“Experiences like Holly O’Donnell’s show that Planned Parenthood’s abortion and baby parts business is not a safe place where vulnerable women can be cared for, but a harvesting ground for saleable human ‘product.’ Taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood’s barbaric abortion business should be revoked immediately, and law enforcement and other elected officials must act decisively to determine the full extent of Planned Parenthood’s offensive practices and hold them accountable to the law,” said CMP project lead David Daleiden.
StemExpress released a statement in July, following Daleiden’s interview, saying that his accusations are false.
“We coordinate with clinics and hospitals to obtain human tissue and blood — specimens that would be otherwise be disposed of — and provide them to biotechnology and academic institutions performing research to find a cure,” said Beau Phillips, spokesman for the group. “The nation’s and the world’s greatest research facilities need a reliable source of healthy human-derived blood, tissue and cellular specimens to perform their studies. As a point of clarification, StemExpress has never requested nor received an intact fetus.”
Planned Parenthood continually denies that they have broken any laws.
“The video released today shows someone who has never worked for Planned Parenthood making false and outrageous claims, without any evidence to back them up,” said Eric Ferrero, Vice President of Communication, Planned Parenthood Federation of America in a statement out Wednesday. “Planned Parenthood follows all laws — period.”