Liberal Medical Ethicist Says Planned Parenthood May Have Endangered Women for Profit

By Published on July 15, 2015

New York University ethicist Professor Arthur Caplan raised two significant red flags after viewing the now infamous video of Dr. Deborah Nucatola talking about harvesting of baby body parts.

After watching Nucatola talk about pricing — ranging from $30 to $100 per specimen — he said it appeared Planned Parenthood was looking to make a profit. Making a profit by selling body parts could be in violation of federal law and punishable with big fines and even jail time.

Caplan also called into question the practice Nucatola described of performing the abortion so as not to harm the organs they want to harvest for sale. Caplan told CNN reporter Elizabeth Cohen that such a practice would be “a big no-no.”

Nucatola told undercover investigators about how Planned Parenthood abortionists would manipulate the child into what’s known as the “breech” position, that is, feet first, so that forceps would not damage the internal organs. Babies are usually born headfirst. A breech birth is not considered the safest.

The Federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 includes findings by Congress of serious health risks for the mother undergoing such a manipulation including:

an increase in a woman’s risk of suffering from cervical incompetence, a result of cervical dilation making it difficult or impossible for a woman to successfully carry a subsequent pregnancy to term;

Read the article “Liberal Medical Ethicist Says Planned Parenthood May Have Endangered Women for Profit” on breitbart.com.

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