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The flood of evidence against Planned Parenthood

It is almost impossible at this point to keep up with the flood of evidence that is coming in against Planned Parenthood. I think that the undercover organization is stepping up the pace in order to make sure the evidence is out there before it can be squelched or confiscated. (The squelching has already begun.)

The most recent video release indicates that unborn children are sometimes born "intact" in the abortion process. While the ghoul being interviewed does not actually admit that they are alive in that case, of course if they are old enough they might indeed be alive when born. This is all the more likely since digoxin is not used to stop the heart if the mother has consented to donate the child's body for research. (The transcript here is explicit on that point. See the context of both places where the word "digoxin" is used.) How the baby is actually killed if still alive at birth is not stated.

The haggling over baby body parts and the explicit agreements to alter procedures to obtain usable specimens make it absolutely clear that federal law is being violated. Our federal executive branch is absolutely in the tank for these evil people at Planned Parenthood, but I still think it is worthwhile to sign this petition.

Meanwhile, kudos to Ted Cruz for leading the attempts to defund Planned Parenthood (the least we can do). His Republican opponents in the U.S. Senate on this matter deserve to be, figuratively speaking, tarred and feathered. Since Cruz is willing to take on the despicably compromised GOP establishment on such a morally fundamental point, he at least deserves serious consideration as a possible presidential candidate.

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You can tell you're dealing with sick propagandists by the way they respond to criticism. Even allowing for a Mengelian-type view of human life, a group at least mildly interested in defending what they do as good and noble to others would admit obvious personal faults of their employees when they arise (such as the crass materialism of joking about trading in body parts for an Italian sports car). One could still feign that abortions are good because women's rights blah, blah, blah and still decry the unprofessionalism, greed, callousness, etc. of those on the video. A group that won't admit that anything its members did was wrong--which is essentially PP's stance--is taking a more conceited view of itself than the Catholic church ever has.

Another thing is that whatever these videos are, they aren't "shocking." It's exactly what the pro-life position should expect. If abortion is wrong, those who defend and perform them will be some of the cruelest and vilest people out there. The fact we're finding evidence of this is not surprising.

They are shocking to the great body of Americans in the middle, who are profoundly ambivalent about abortion.

That's what I think pro-lifers have to realize: Sure, we knew already how barbaric abortion is, but a great many of our friends and neighbors have been conveniently not thinking about it. They prefer to think of abortionists as humanitarians Human denial and inconsistency are well-known phenomena. These videos are, and should be, shocking *to them*, and the hope is that their shock will have a salutary effect on their views concerning the barbarism of abortion itself.

The reason PP has to defend all of this is that the people in the videos are not low-level staffers but are at their highest levels. They have thrown low-level staffers under the bus in response to other sting operations (like the one where undercover pro-lifers posed as sex traffickers), but this practice is too widespread in PP and the people involved too high-level for them to take that approach this time.

Also noteworthy is that PP appears to have faked a website hack for PR purposes:

http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/30/planned-parenthood-hacking-sure-looks-like-an-orchestrated-pr-stunt/

And The New York Times finally got around to printing an editorial on this -- in defense of harvesting organs from murdered humans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/opinion/the-case-for-fetal-cell-research.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

Lies and the father of lies.

It is also needed to expose the final buyers of baby parts. Which medical and life science companies are involved in doing experiments with baby parts?

It isn't clear to me that "haggling over baby body parts" is illegal, in and of itself. What the law says is that "It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration IF the transfer affects interstate commerce." (emphasis mine) This seems to suggest that it isn't illegal to sell fetal tissue within a certain state.

All of this "affects" interstate commerce. That is a very broad clause and has been used to regulate all commerce in other federal laws. And I'm sure there are in-state laws anyway against outright _sale_ for profit of human organs.

Believe me, PP has no desire to have to worry about that. They want to be able to work with out-of-state researchers and procurers who are based wherever and want to come in and get the body parts.

Bedarz, I did an interesting little Google search on that question a couple of weeks ago. Novogenix is expressly named by "Dr." Nucatola in the very first video as collecting these baby parts from them in a virtually cost-free manner. (Novogenix takes over a corner of the abortuary and does the work once the baby bodies are handed over to them.) If you search for Novogenix labs you will find that scientific papers actually list where they got the fetal body parts used in their papers. So you can track the body parts right to the researchers who are the final buyers, almost certainly in many cases using federal grants for their research.

One could still feign that abortions are good because women's rights blah, blah, blah and still decry the unprofessionalism, greed, callousness, etc. of those on the video. A group that won't admit that anything its members did was wrong--which is essentially PP's stance--is taking a more conceited view of itself than the Catholic church ever has.

I almost never agree with you all on these sorts of things, but they have really screwed things up. Planned Parenthood needs to do a mea culpa and start firing people at the top levels starting yesterday. They are making the crisis far worse with their absurd attempts to play the victim card.

I doubt they can do a mea culpa safely. Their lawyers very well may have told them that an admission of guilt could bankrupt them and/or end with a significant chunk of their leadership doing hard time.

I think some of the leadership are going to end up in prison regardless.

Step2, in all seriousness, do you not think that they want to continue carrying on the practices in question? Because if so, then they think they have to tough it out. And they believe they can pull that off. Otherwise they're going to have to change all of this pretty radically, and I don't see their being willing to do that without a fight.

Lydia -

"All of this 'affects' interstate commerce. That is a very broad clause and has been used to regulate all commerce in other federal laws."

This isn't obvious to me. Could you expound on this? I can imagine some liberals trying to justify PP's actions by claiming it doesn't affect interstate commerce.

For the vast reach of the commerce clause as attached to federal legislation, see, inter alia, Wickard v. Filburn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

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