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A Lot of People Want Liver Red

· By Jim Morgan · From pages 44, 45 of the print edition

So says Dr. Deborah Nucatola, head of Planned Parenthood's Medical Services division, in the first of several damning videos that expose the moral sewer that is Margaret Sanger's legacy. Even pro-abortion feminist icon Hillary Clinton called what she saw in the videos "disturbing."

The videos, seven as of this writing, aren't about abortion per se. Produced by the Center for Medical Progress (http://www.centerformedicalprogram.org/) in a two-and-a-half year-long undercover operation (perfectly legal despite breathless accusations to the contrary) they are about Planned Parenthood's very profitable trade in human body parts.

The casual nature of the way in which this trade is conducted is horrifying. As is Nucatola's light-hearted banter as she discusses (during lunch) "crushing above" and "crushing below" the specific organs to be "harvested" so as not to damage the valuable parts. And watching the technicians use tweezers to sort through piles of bloody and tiny but unmistakably human body parts ("It was a boy." "This is a leg.") is only for people with stronger stomachs than mine. I nearly threw up.

The most recent video features an account of what a reasonable person would call infanticide. Holly O'Donnell, briefly a "procurement technician" for Stem Express, a former Planned Parenthood partner, describes how a coworker called her over to see "something kind of cool."

Pointing to a highly developed aborted fetus lying in a laboratory pan, the co-worker "just taps the heart, and it starts beating," after which O'Donnell was instructed to cut through the baby's face and extract the brain.

"Something kind of cool?" Maybe for Josef Mengele. O'Donnell soon resigned.

Planned Parenthood also seems occasionally to bump up against the law. Federal law requires abortion providers to show that "no alteration of the timing, method, or procedures used to terminate the pregnancy was made solely for the purposes of obtaining the tissue." In one discussion, however, Dr. Mary Gatter says this "may not be a big problem" and that she will check with "Ian," an abortionist at her California facility about altering the procedure "in order to increase the odds that he's going to get an intact specimen." The organization also claims that it only receives "nominal fees" to recoup the cost of administrative expenses. But the videos show its executives openly discussing "specimen" prices and fee schedules, saying they'll check with other Planned Parenthood outlets about the going rates to make sure they don't get "lowballed." It also claims that all the fetal tissue is "donated" by the women getting the abortions but, again, the recorded conversations indicate that this is misleading at best.

Abortion supporters make three questionable claims related to this controversy.

Abortions are only 3% of PP's services: But they generate 50% of the revenue and "service" is defined to include even simple referrals, thus drastically skewing the numbers.

Fetal tissue is essential for life-saving research: But advances in medical science and technology have rendered that largely untrue.

Defunding PP would drastically reduce the availability of women's health care: But even completely shutting down all 665 Planned Parenthood facilities would have no effect on the 13,540 federally-funded women's health clinics that do not perform abortions.

In fact, Planned Parenthood is completely unnecessary in terms of real issues of women's health. Contrary to claims, it generally does not even perform mammograms but just refers those patients elsewhere.

Pro-abortion folks want CMP, not Planned Parenthood, investigated. But that's a deflection. The fact is that Planned Parenthood got caught (dare I say it?) red-handed and they don't like that. Their response is an attempt to discredit the accusers; anything to distract from this loathsome and barbaric trafficking in human body parts. But the cat is out of the bag thanks to the CMP videos. Both federal and state investigations of Planned Parenthood have begun. If justice prevails, Sanger's slaughterhouses will cease receiving $500-million-a-year subsidies from taxpayers. And that, at least, is a start.