Since my blog posting of April 27 (read “Panel Proves
Planned Parenthood Profited”), new evidence was disclosed last week that
further proves abortion clinics have profited from the sale of aborted baby
body parts. Despite the abortion lobby’s
attempts to drown out the facts with distracting and deceptive tactics, the
House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives uncovered hard evidence
detailing a profitable relationship between abortion clinics and fetal tissue
procurement companies.
Under federal law, it is unlawful to profit from the sale of
fetal tissue. Title 42 USC § 289g-2
reads, “It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or
otherwise transfer any fetal tissue for valuable consideration if the transfer
affects interstate commerce.” The
statute goes on to explain the only costs that may be reimbursed are costs for
“transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or
storage of human fetal tissue.”
The problem with the shocking marketplace uncovered by the
Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and now the House investigative panel is procurement
companies covered all of the costs themselves … even going so far as sending
their own technicians out to abortion clinics to harvest organs. Thus the clinics had no costs for which they
were entitled to compensation under federal law. Yet, by their own admission, these clinics
were receiving payments (often large sums) from the fetal tissue procurement
companies.
The documents released by the House panel reveal that the
relationship between abortion clinics and procurement companies was
intentionally designed to be profitable. Two documents entered into exhibit at the
hearing, for example, were advertisements promising to make abortion clinics “financially
profitable” through the harvesting of aborted baby organs and claiming a
partnership with the procurement company would contribute to the “fiscal growth
of your own clinic.”
Additionally, the documents showcase how the companies
peddle the baby body parts from abortion clinics to the medical research
community. One exhibit includes a
company’s website with a drop down menu listing the type of organs and tissues
available for purchase. The page looks
similar to what you would see on any online shopping site … except that this
site is trafficking baby body parts!
Think of this: A baby’s parts are greater than the whole? Each limb and organ will sell for top dollar
in the fetal tissue market; yet when the baby is whole and thriving in her
mother’s womb she has no value … according to the abortion industry?
Listen: Babies are not the sum of their body parts. Babies are not meant to be bought. Babies are not meant to be sold. This is an issue that shouldn’t even be
debated. People shouldn’t be making
money from the sale of body parts of aborted babies. The federal law banning the sale of fetal
tissue was supported with bipartisan consensus when originally passed.
In addition to the immorality and possibly illegality of the
fetal tissue procurement scheme, documents released at the hearing also raised
questions about the exploitation of mothers during the process. At the House hearing, Representative Mia Love
(UT-R) expressed her concern for the rights and well-being of the mothers who
are targeted by the abortion industry to pad their pockets, contrasting it with
the legal and transparent procedures of adult organ donation. When it comes to fetal tissue donation, it’s
different. A scared, vulnerable woman,
including a minor who is underage, can come into a clinic on the morning of her
surgery and first she needs to give consent to the procedure without any
parental guidance or anyone there. Then,
before the event, before this invasive procedure, a tissue technician comes to
her and gets her to donate her baby’s body parts instead of an unbiased
counselor. The tissue technician may be
focused on making a commission rather than protecting that woman’s best
interests. Neither mothers nor their
unborn children are treated with the inherent dignity they deserve in this
grotesque profit scheme devised by abortion clinics and procurement companies. While Planned Parenthood and other abortion
advocates claim that they are empowering women, they continue to quietly prey
upon women when they are most vulnerable, exploiting mothers and their babies
for profit.
The hearing proved what the investigative journalists from
the CMP have been saying all along — abortion clinics are profiting from the
sale of aborted baby body parts at the expense of the rights of mothers and the
dignity of their babies.
When CMP began exposing this practice, the country was
shocked. Congress is now acting and
uncovering evidence implicating abortion clinics and these tissue procurement
companies.
Justice must be served, not for any political points, but
for our nation’s humanity and for the protection of our society’s most
vulnerable.
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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