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Planned Parenthood Official Offers to Sell Fetus Body Parts
Yeah, it's a sting set up by anti-abortion activists. But this woman is offering fetus hearts, lungs, livers, and anything else for $30-100 per "specimen."
Planned Parenthood got some 'splainin to do. Video is in the link.
Planned Parenthood got some 'splainin to do. Video is in the link.
“At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does—with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards,” spokesman Eric Ferrero said. “In some instances, actual costs, such as the cost to transport tissue to leading research centers, are reimbursed, which is standard across the medical field.”
He accused the Center for Medical Progress of mounting a misleading attack, similar to other groups that have tried to mount undercover “stings” targeting Planned Parenthood.
But anti-abortion groups said the video shows that Planned Parenthood is essentially selling fetal organs and that Congress and other authorities should investigate.
Buying and selling human fetal tissue is illegal in the United States. Federal regulations also prohibit anyone from altering the timing or method of an abortion for the sole purpose of later using the tissue in research. Donating the tissue for research, however, is legal with a woman’s consent.
He accused the Center for Medical Progress of mounting a misleading attack, similar to other groups that have tried to mount undercover “stings” targeting Planned Parenthood.
But anti-abortion groups said the video shows that Planned Parenthood is essentially selling fetal organs and that Congress and other authorities should investigate.
Buying and selling human fetal tissue is illegal in the United States. Federal regulations also prohibit anyone from altering the timing or method of an abortion for the sole purpose of later using the tissue in research. Donating the tissue for research, however, is legal with a woman’s consent.
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