9th Planned Parenthood Video: Two Fetal Purchasing Companies Pile on, Exposing Legal Violations

By Rachel Alexander Published on September 3, 2015

The ninth undercover video exposing Planned Parenthood and its fetal body parts buyers has just been released, and it contains extensive evidence that Planned Parenthood and those companies are breaking multiple laws, including felony violations. One company even attempted to throw the other one under the bus exposing its unethical behavior. The video contains evidence of conflicts of interest, illegal profiting from selling fetal parts, and the illegal termination of babies.

The last point first. In the video, Perrin Larton, procurement manager for Advanced BioScience Resources (ABR) says that ABR avoids Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s clinic in order to avoid partial-birth abortions (which are illegal), but then adds that ABR avoids partial-birth abortions “unless it’s somebody who has had six pregnancies and six vaginal deliveries.” In those situations, she says the women are in and out in three minutes: “The fetus was already in the vaginal canal, whenever we put her in the stirrups, it just fell out.”

These are apparently cases where they women are at an extremely late stage of their pregnancies. And either Lawton is describing a live birth, presumably followed by the killing of the newborn , or — best case scenario — she’s describing a partial-birth abortion, but that also is illegal (except when performed to save the life of the mother) and punishable by a fine and up to two years in prison.

Larton also complains about doctors pulling fetuses out by the abdomen, ripping up the livers so they are not intact. This may be more evidence that Planned Parenthood sometimes illegally modifies the abortion procedure to produce intact fetuses, a violation of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993.

Then there’s the issue of profiteering. Under 42 U.S. Code 289g, it is a federal felony to sell fetal body parts for a profit. The undercover buyers ask Dr. Katharine Sheehan, long-time medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest until 2013, about purchasing fetuses from the local Planned Parenthood in town. Sheehan said they already have a relationship going back over 20 years with Advanced Bioscience Resources selling to them, and have just renegotiated the contract. The buyer responds, saying she doesn’t want to sound like a salesman, but “we return a portion of our fees to the clinics.” Sheehan excitedly replies, “Mmmm, oh!” The buyer further expounds, “Just to, as a way of, thank you for this … just trying to establish…” Sheehan helpfully offers, “Right, get a toe in and make it, make a pro…” She appears to be saying profit but the sound of her voice trails off.

The CEO of StemExpress, Kate Dyer, used to be a procurement technician for ABR. She left and founded her competing organization. She could hardly contain herself in the video from bragging to the undercover buyers about how she generously compensates Planned Parenthood for the fetus body parts, unlike ABR. She said that ABR wasn’t paying anything to the clinic for the fetuses, which made their profits so huge they could fund trips to Hawaii.

In contrast, Dyer said StemExpress made sure to provide plenty of compensation to Planned Parenthood in order to lure their business away from ABR. “I would go into clinics and they would say, ‘Oh you’re for profit? And you want to pay us?’ And I’m like, ‘So I want to pay you, she [ABR] doesn’t want to’… And I’m thinking, I’m like, ‘We’re trying to give money to you.'”

Dyer next threw both Planned Parenthood and ABR under the bus, saying how there were employees working unethically on both payrolls:

Some staff — not that I know so much on the Planned Parenthood side, but I wouldn’t be surprised — there are some staff in the past that have been on the payroll with ABR … I mean like there’s there’s like well enough known … like a nursing director, or somebody who’s literally like, like a paid employee … like an advisory role … For a long time there were certain clinics that because they had paid advisers that were sitting on boards for these clinics, they were also an adviser to ABR, who were just never going to go anywhere from there, you know what I mean?

Certain parts of the federal regulation titled The Protection of Subjects, 45 CFR 46 are likely being violated by this double employment. For instance, Research involving pregnant women or fetuses, §46.204, states in part, “(i) Individuals engaged in the research will have no part in any decisions as to the timing, method or procedures used to terminate a pregnancy.”

The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing to investigate Planned Parenthood’s activity on Wednesday. This ninth video alone provides plenty of incriminating evidence to justify defunding the organization.

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