The U.S. House Select Panel on Infant Lives, a committee
spearheaded by Rep. Martha Blackburn (TN-R), released a shocking report last
week that confirms … what many of us suspected all along … that the Center for
Medical Progress’ (CMP) investigative findings into Planned Parenthood (PP)
were true; that PP (a pro-abortion non-profit organization) is profiting from
fetal tissue procurement.
According to Republicans involved in the investigation, a
researcher paid a middleman procurement company $3,340 for a fetal brain, $595
for a “baby skull matched to upper and lower limbs,” and $890 for “upper and
lower limbs with hands and feet.”
Despite the evidence, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH-D) appeared to
testify during last Wednesday’s hearing on the report to demand the panel’s
disbandment. “This panel was formed with
political motivations,” Shaheen insisted. Blackburn and her fellow panelists have
“little interest in unbiased investigation” and are only using the committee as
an opportunity to attack health care providers, she continued. The senator wasn’t quite done, accusing the
panel of “undermining women’s access to health care” and being an
“inappropriate, misuse of federal resources.”
That’s funny (not really)!
If Shaheen wants to discuss a misappropriation of federal funds, let’s
discuss PP. The organization receives a
half billion dollars a year and then proceeds to perform over 300,000 abortions
annually.
As for that CMP investigation, Shaheen adamantly believes
they relied on “deceptive, highly edited videos” to smear PP.
Sen. Ben Sasse (NE-R) followed Shaheen’s testimony and
exposed her faulty accusations. The
evidence shows PP is profiting from the sale of fetal tissue and that “matters.”
He said. “We’re talking about people. It matters because we’re talking about the
tiny limbs of little babies.” On fetal
procurement websites, Sasse explained, interested parties can find just about
every baby organ for sale. “Our humanity
should be repulsed,” he said. “Here on
this, we can and should agree: Babies are not the sum of their body parts,” he
concluded. “They’re meant to be welcomed
and nurtured.”
Lawmakers know that the first step to stopping PP’s
dangerous agenda is to strip its funding. Thankfully, the Government Accountability
Office has accepted a request to investigate how taxpayer dollars are
distributed to the organization.
The CMP’s David Daleiden responded to the hearing. Here’s his full statement:
“What
we learned from today’s hearing is that Planned Parenthood and their business
partners like StemExpress are engaged in a rampant, illegal, and horrific
enterprise that harvests, trafficks, and sells aborted babies’ hearts, lungs,
and brains for profit. The undercover
video admissions by senior level Planned Parenthood officials only scratch the
surface of this barbaric trade — the financial documents uncovered by the
Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives prove that Planned Parenthood
profited from trafficking fetal organs and tissues. We now know the criminal trade in body parts
is spread nationwide throughout the abortion industry, with nearly 1-in-5
abortion clinics selling baby parts to StemExpress. Even the pro-Planned Parenthood witnesses
called by the Panel minority agreed that a robust investigation should seek
testimony and accounting documents from Planned Parenthood. We applaud the Select Investigative Panel for
their excellent work on this important issue and encourage all levels of
government and law enforcement to move forward quickly and decisively to ensure
that those who sell aborted baby parts for profit are brought to justice under
the law.”
Let me
close with this obscure warning in Proverbs: “If you refrain to deliver those who are drawn unto death, and those
who are ready to be slain; if you say, ‘Surely we did not know this,’ does not
He [God] who ponders the heart
consider it? And He who keeps your soul,
does He not know it? And will He not
render to every man according to his works?” (Proverbs 24:11-12)
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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