Planned Parenthood Clinic Caught Selling Aborted Babies Sues Pro-Life Advocate David Daleiden

National   |   Steven Ertelt   |   Mar 24, 2016   |   3:53PM   |   Washington, DC

A Planned Parenthood abortion clinic caught selling live intact aborted babies in an undercover sting operation by citizens journalists has joined the lawsuit filed against David Daleiden, who headed the undercover investigation.

In August, Daleiden released a video catching a Planned Parenthood official discussing how the abortion business sells “fully intact” aborted babies. The video makes it appear the Planned Parenthood abortion business may be selling the “fully intact” bodies of unborn babies purposefully born alive and left to die.

The fifth undercover video in the controversy over Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby parts shows the Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, advertising the Texas Planned Parenthood branch’s track record of fetal tissue sales, including its ability to deliver fully intact aborted babies.

In the video, actors posing as representatives from a human biologics company meet with Farrell at the abortion-clinic headquarters of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston to discuss a potential partnership to harvest fetal organs.

“Where we probably have an edge over other organizations, our organization has been doing research for many many years,” explains Farrell. When researchers need a specific part from the aborted fetus, Farrell says, “We bake that into our contract, and our protocol, that we follow this, so we deviate from our standard in order to do that.”

Asked specifically if this means Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast can change abortion procedures to supply intact fetal specimens, Farrell affirms, “Some of our doctors in the past have projects and they’re collecting the specimens, so they do it in a way that they get the best specimens, so I know it can happen.”

At one point in the video, Planned Parenthood staff show off the body of a 20-week old twin baby aborted and sold for parts.

Now, the Houston Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in question has joined the lawsuit that the national Planned Parenthood abortion business filed against Daleiden. As the pro-abortion Texas Observer notes:

The federal suit, originally filed in January by Planned Parenthood Federation of America and some Colorado Planned Parenthood affiliates, alleges that CMP ringleader David Daleiden and other anti-abortion activists violated a federal organized crime law, known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. The California-based suit also alleges CMP and its activists committed fraud, trespassed on private property, illegally and secretly recorded footage and invaded the privacy of Planned Parenthood employees.

One of the 11 videos released by CMP was filmed at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) in Houston, prompting the organization to join the suit.

CMP activists “used false identities to enter sensitive clinical areas, secretly and maliciously videotaping without concern for patient privacy or safety,” according to a PPGC statement.

Daleiden posted bail in February in response to what his attorneys and pro-life groups explain are bogus charges related to his undercover investigation and exposure of the Planned Parenthood abortion business selling the body parts of aborted babies. Dozens of pro-life advocates turned out to support him.

SIGN THE PETITION: Drop the Charges Against David Daleiden and Charge Planned Parenthood

A Texas grand jury indicted David Daleiden and another pro-life activist, Sandra Merritt, behind the videos. Instead of prosecuting Planned Parenthood for selling aborted baby parts, Daleiden was indicted for buying them.

Daleiden has no interest in a plea deal for probation for the bogus charges filed against him. Instead, he wants an apology from the District Attorney behind the baseless charges.

Later in the Houston video, the investigators ask Farrell how she will frame a contract in which they pay a higher price for higher quality fetal body parts, and she replies, “We can work it out in the context of–obviously, the procedure itself is more complicated,” suggesting that “without having you cover the procedural cost” and paying for the abortion, the higher specimen price could be framed as “additional time, cost, administrative burden.”

Farrell finally summarizes her affiliate’s approach to fetal tissue payments: “If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. It’s all just a matter of line items.”

Farrell also indicates to the investigators over lunch that the specimen sales from her department contribute significantly to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s overall finances: “I think everyone realizes, especially because my department contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in the United States. Larger than any the other affiliates’ combined.”

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