Yesterday, the dinosaur legacy media tried to ignore the video of Planned Parenthood's Dr. Deborah Nucatola casually discussing the harvesting for sale of fetal body parts while sipping wine and nibbling on a salad. They are the gatekeepers of all information, you see, and if they don't cover it then it isn't news.
That didn't work. So now that they realize they have to say something about it, they're trying their best to cover Planned Parenthood's behind by selling the giant abortion gin's own talking points. They're not selling body parts, you see. They're just facilitating "organ donations" and getting reimbursed for their trouble.
Typical is this passage from Robin Marty in Cosmopolitan:
But what about the allegations themselves, and the video that has GOP presidential candidates up in arms and demanding a congressional investigation? Well, that too is mostly a matter of clever wording, a few unsubstantiated allegations, and a reliance on the fact that to most people — myself included — medical practices are kind of gross.
Abortion opponents are calling the process a "harvesting" of "aborted baby body parts." In the edited video itself, the video producers insert citations for two different laws: 42 U.S. Code § 274e (prohibition of organ purchases) and 42 U.S. Code § 289g–2 (prohibitions regarding human fetal tissue). In both cases, the laws apply to "selling" organs or tissue, not to reimbursing a medical practitioner for costs associated with the procurement and transportation of these organs and tissues. As the prohibition of organ purchases states, "The term 'valuable consideration' does not include the reasonable payments associated with the removal, transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, and storage of a human organ…" In other words, transportation — often very rapid transportation, as anyone who has ever watched a dramatic reenactment of an organ donation has seen — can be compensated. The "human fetal tissue" law is much the same, but also adds a caveat that no tissue or organs can be obtained from a fetus that was conceived specifically for the purpose of terminating and donating.
Considering these are products of conception coming directly from abortion clinics, that is unlikely to be a factor.
Planned Parenthood responded similarly, dismissing accusations that they are trying to sell remains at a profit. "In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases," said Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications, Planned Parenthood Federation of America in a written statement. "Women at Planned Parenthood who have abortions are no different. 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. There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or for Planned Parenthood. 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."
The media's defense of Planned Parenthood ultimately comes down to the idea that there is no profit-making going on, merely the reimbursement of expenses for shipping or transporting a "donation" of body parts. These body parts, lest we forget, come from murdered children who did not exactly consent to either their own murders or their status as organ donors.
But be that as it may, this is one of the most hair-splitting defenses of a monstrous evil I've ever heard. Even Planned Parenthood's media defenders aren't denying the basic fact, which is that body parts of aborted fetusus are being harvested for supply to third parties, and that money is exchanging hands in the process. Even if you can somehow make that fit into a technical category of legality, it's still horrific in every way.
Also, it's not true. Check this passage from the video transcript, and especially note the parts I've put in bold:
PP: You know, I would throw a number out, I would say it’s probably anywhere from $30 to $100 [per specimen], depending on the facility and what’s involved. It just has to do with space issues, are you sending someone there who’s going to be doing everything, is there shipping involved, is somebody gonna have to take it out. You know, I think everybody just wants, it’s really just about if anyone were ever to ask them, “What do you do for this $60? How can you justify that? Or are you basically just doing something completely egregious, that you should be doing for free.” So it just needs to be justifiable. And, look, we have 67 affiliates. They all have different practice environments, different staff, and so that number—
Buyer: Did you say 67?
PP: 67.
Buyer: Okay. And so of that number, how much would personality of the personnel in there, would play into it as far as how we’re speaking to them—
PP: I think for affiliates, at the end of the day, they’re a non-profit, they just don’t want to—they want to break even. And if they can do a little better than break even, and do so in a way that seems reasonable, they’re happy to do that.
So yeah, another word for "do a little better than break even" is profit.
The dino media seem to be under the impression that everything being discussed here is mere reimbursement of expenses, even paying for work someone is doing. Um, no, when you pay for a service that's being performed, that's not mere reimbursement. That's the price of a service rendered and/or product delivered.
If you order one of my books and I ship it to you, I can't say I gave you the book for free but you paid for my time to ship it. You paid for a book and you got a book. You bought a book. The same thing applies here. Planned Parenthood is selling fetal body parts, no matter how desperately they and their media apologists try to claim they're not.
Yesterday, the dinosaur legacy media tried to ignore the video of Planned Parenthood's Dr. Deborah Nucatola casually discussing the harvesting for sale of fetal body parts while sipping wine and nibbling on a salad. They are the gatekeepers of all information, you see, and if they don't cover it then it isn't news.
