Video: Planned Parenthood Execs Say Baby Parts Sale Makes 'Fair Amount Of Income'

By R. Siva Kumar - 16 Sep '15 12:52PM

The plot thickens. There is more controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood even as The Center for Medical Progress comes out with the fourth video in a documentary web series, as well as the 10th video on the whole about the abortion corporation's "alleged usage of aborted fetus parts".

The video thus shoots executives in a discussion over the sales of baby body parts, and said that it is a "valid exchange," while clinics make "a fair amount of income" through the sales.

The Planned Parenthood executives whose conversations are included in the video are: Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, Senior Medical Advisor; Dr. Vanessa Cullins, Vice President for External Medical Affairs; and Deborah VanDerhei, National Director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAPS), according to LifeNews. The recording warned of a "possible P.R. nightmare" that the company was likely to face if the public got to know about their activities.

"We've just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural," says Dr. Westhoff to a prospective fetal organ buyer. "Certainly, everything we provide-oh, gonads! Oh my God, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh."

Westhoff continues, "Obviously, we would have the potential for a huge P.R. issue in doing this," before offering to introduce the buyers to "national office abortion people" from Planned Parenthood.

In the meantime, VanDerhei is also caught talking about payments for the body parts as "donation for remuneration," according to Live Action News.

"I have been talking to the executive director of the National Abortion Federation, we're trying to figure this out as an industry, about how we're going to manage remuneration, because the headlines would be a disaster."

The video also shows VanDerhei explaining that the company can get about $100 for each "specimen", and also that the compay has "independent colleagues who generate a fair amount of income doing this."

One more conversation is captured between VanDerhel and Vanessa Russo, Compliance Program Administrator for Planned Parenthood Keystone in Pennsylvania. Russo is caught arguing, "A company like this that wants to give our organization money for the tissue-I think that that's a valid exchange, and that that's okay."

The next line in the conversation is just a "Mhn" from VanDerhei.

Meanwhile, a number of respondents, especially pro-lifers, have taken notice and are calling out corporation through social media and public protests. It was just a few weeks ago that pro-lifers went on a huge protest against the abortion company, at about 668 US facilities.