The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives held a hearing yesterday in which it revealed a series of documents showing that abortion providers and fetal baby parts procurement companies may have broken federal law.
Life News is reporting on the hearings which presented documents showing that Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers are profiting from the sale of fetal body parts. Relying upon business documents, invoices, marketing brochures, and management documents, the report reveals that middleman companies such as Stem Express do all the work to transfer body parts while Planned Parenthood is spared any significant expense.
This revelation disputes the abortion giant’s claim that the only payment they receive for baby parts is to reimburse them for reasonable costs associated with the procurement of the organs which is permissible under law.
However, according to the Committee’s investigation, abortion clinics are incurring little or no costs in these transactions.
“The [abortion clinic] has no costs so the payments from the [procurement business] to the [abortion clinic] are pure profit,” the report concludes. “All costs are born by the [procurement business] or the customer. The payments from the customer to the PB exceed its cost by a factor of 300 to 400 percent.”
As the Daily Signal reports, several former prosecutors backed the allegations, saying that the documents, which were released as evidence, demonstrate “probable cause” that federal statutes against profiting from fetal tissue sales had been violated.
“Based on my review of the exhibits, a competent, ethical federal prosecutor could establish probable cause that both the abortion clinics and the procurement business violated the statute, aided and abetted one another in violating the statute, and likely conspired together to violate the statute,” Brian P. Lennon, a former federal prosecutor in Michigan and Virginia, testified.
Based on these findings, the Committee says it doesn’t make sense that abortion clinics are receiving checks amounting to thousands of dollars a month for fetal body parts. As the above illustration shows, the sale of body parts such as brains and hearts are very profitable for providers.
In spite of the evidence, however, pro-abortion lawmakers are still claiming that the investigation is a “witch hunt” and are dismissing the evidence.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., the ranking member on the House panel, called the documents “false” and accused Republicans of using the investigation as a “political weapon to attack women’s health care and life-saving research and harass and intimidate those who provide these services.”
Schakowsky and other pro-abortion politicians argued that Planned Parenthood and its affiliations had already been cleared of wrongdoing in multiple investigations.
“Some continue to declare that Planned Parenthood is selling fetal tissue for profit despite the fact that three House committees, 12 states, and a Texas grand jury have already cleared the organization of wrongdoing,” Schakowsky said. “These witnesses—like our Republican colleagues—endorse and rely upon the video allegations of anti-abortion extremist David Daleiden [the head of the Center for Medical Progress] and his associates to support their inflammatory claims.”
However, the documents are indeed damning.
As Kenneth W. Sukhia, former U.S. attorney for North Florida testified, “Accounting and marketing materials from the fetal tissue procurement business demonstrate beyond question that there is more than sufficient cause to support a full investigation by federal authorities.”
David Daleiden, whose undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives discussing body parts sales resulted in one of the biggest scandals to hit Planned Parenthood in its history, says the findings reveal just how extensive is this “horrific enterprise.”
“Planned Parenthood and their business partners like Stem Express are engaged in a rampant, illegal, and horrific enterprise that harvests, trafficks, and sells aborted babies’ hearts, lungs, and brains for profit. . . .”
Daleiden, who was indicted on trumped up felony charges by the pro-abortion district attorney of Harris County, Texas, is applauding the Committee “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.”
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