Living in Nation that Uses Babies for Parts

On Feb. 6, two investigators, posing as representatives of a fetal tissue procurement company, met with Dr. Mary Gatter, president of Planned Parenthood’s Medical Director’s Council, who oversees its Pasadena affiliate, ostensibly for the purpose of acquiring "intact fetal organs."

Breitbart.com suggests the video shows that Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is violating federal law by being "in the business of selling fetal tissue for compensation."

Cecile Richards, president of PPFA, denies that: "I want to be really clear. The allegation that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from 'tissue donation' is not true."

Profit? Mere reimbursement? Moral bankruptcy? Judge for yourself.

Dr. Gatter: "Our volume ... is 800 [abortions] a year, with 60 in the second trimester. … PPFA is on board with tissue donations, but we have to ask for a waiver ... and we have to lay out ... what our program's going to be like. [Here's] the process worked out with Novogenix  ... in Los Angeles when I was there. … Heather, a Nogovenix  person would come to the site, and our staff would ... get [patient] consent. Then Heather would look at the tissue and take what she required. So logistically, it was very easy for us. We didn't have to do anything. ...

Female Investigator: "What would you expect for intact tissue? What ... compensation?"

Gatter: "What you are used to paying?

FI: "What would make you happy? What would work for you? ..."

Gatter: "OK. $75 a specimen."

FI: "That's way too low. ..."

Gatter: "I was going to say $50. ... I've been in places where they have done it for $50. But see ... we're not in it for the money. ... We don't want to be in the position of being accused of selling tissue ... On the other hand, there are costs associated with the use of our space ...."

FI: "I'd like to start at around $100.

Gatter: "Now this is for tissue you actually take; not just tissue ... where you can't find anything, right?"

FI: "What we can use. ... Intact .....

Gatter: ."Are you looking for eight and nine-week specimens, or only second trimester specimens?

Male Investigator: "Ten to twelve week ... the end of the first trimester … Intact specimens ...  we can work with."

Gatter: "If our usual technique is suction, at 10 to 12 weeks, and we switch to IPAS -- something with less suction --  we increase the odds that we will come out with an intact specimen. But then we're ... violating the protocol that says to the patient, we're not doing anything different in our care of you. ... That's kind of a specious little argument.  I wouldn't object to  asking Ian, that's our surgeon who does the cases, to use an IPAS ...  to increase the odds of getting an intact specimen. … We're signing something that says we're not changing anything ... just because you agree to give tissue. ..."

FI: "It's touchy. ...."

Gatter: "I think they're both totally appropriate techniques; there's no difference of pain involved . ... You have my email?

MI: "Yes."

Gatter: "Write me a  … proposal which I will take to Laurel and others in our organization ... Then ... I will then mention this to Ian, to see how he feels about using a “less crunchy" technique to get more whole specimens. And then ... the next step is I would need to apply to PPFA for a waiver. ... We will need to have a contract. ..."

MI: "What we have used in the past is a 'materials transfer agreement.' ..."

Gatter: "But you know that money is not the important thing for me, but it has to be big enough that it makes it worthwhile for me. ...  It's been years since I talked about compensation, so just let me figure out what others are getting. .."

Regardless of whether Planned Parenthood is making a profit or simply being "reimbursed" for its expenses, I am nauseated.

Recall Dr. Gatter's remark: "So logistically, it was very easy for us. We didn't have to do anything."

Reimbursement?

How can one be reimbursed for not doing anything? What sort of medical doctor refers to a human fetus (an unborn baby) as a "specimen?”

Isn't it the very humanity of the fetus that makes its "parts" (its liver, kidneys, brain) useful? To replace damaged parts in humans? For medical research?

Compare Dr. Gatter's practice of medicine with that prescribed by the original Hippocratic Oath: "I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child."

Dr. Joseph Mengele, of Auschwitz fame, worked experiments on children that often caused death, and then sent their heads and organs to the SS Medical Academy in Graz for study.

How can Dr. Gatter and Planned Parenthood look at themselves in a mirror and not see Joseph Mengele?

Dr. Gatter, in my opinion, is morally blind to the humanity of the children being crushed to death in PPFA establishments.

For her, the fetus is "sub-human medical waste" -- a "specimen" -- to be disposed of in any politically correct fashion.

Donating the parts (and taking cash under the guise of reimbursement) for research or to "supply human health needs" for her is morality.

But if a fetal liver can be implanted to prevent a toddler with liver problems from dying, why can't fetal tissue be canned and shipped to Africa as food for children who will otherwise starve? If the fetus counts for nothing, what line is there other than political correctness?

If you think I exaggerate, watch the video: youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2xi9mhmuo

Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2015 11:10 pm, QCOnline
John Donald O'Shea

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