By Bob Eschliman
Editor
The Center for Medical Progress released the third episode of its “Human Capital” web series, the seventh in which Planned Parenthood’s supply of aborted fetal tissue is documented, this morning. And while perhaps not as graphic as some of the earlier videos, this one is even more heart wrenching.
Holly O’Donnell, a former procurement technician for StemExpress, a biotech start-up that until last week was partnered with two large northern California Planned Parenthood affiliates to purchase their aborted fetus parts and resell them for scientific experimentation, has been a central figure in the “Human Capital” series. In the latest installment, she tells a harrowing story of harvesting an intact brain from a late-term baby boy whose heart was still beating after the abortion.
“‘I want you to see something kind of cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor told her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think … I don’t know if that constitutes it’s technically dead, or it’s alive.”
State and federal law require that the same treatment be given to an infant born alive after an abortion as to a normally delivered baby (1 U.S.C. 8, CA Health and Safety Code 123435). California law also prohibits any kind of experimentation on a fetus with a discernible heartbeat (CA Health and Safety Code 123440).
StemExpress has been cited in published scientific literature as a source of fetal hearts used for Langendorff perfusion, which keeps a heart beating after it is excised from the body. O’Donnell also tells how her StemExpress supervisor instructed her to cut through the face of the fetus in order to get the brain.
“She gave me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of the face. I can’t even describe what that feels like,” she said.
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The video also features recordings of Dr. Ben Van Handel, the Executive Director of Novogenix Laboratories, LLC, and also of Perrin Larton, Procurement Manager of Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. Novogenix is the company that has harvested fetal organs from abortions done by Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, in Los Angeles, while ABR is the oldest fetal tissue procurement company and works with Planned Parenthood in San Diego and other clinics around the country.
Van Handel admits, “There are times when after the procedure is done that the heart actually is still beating.”
Larton describes abortions she has seen where “the fetus was already in the vaginal canal whenever we put her in the stirrups, it just fell out.”
CMP’s Project Lead David Daleiden notes, “Today’s video contains heartrending admissions about the absolute barbarism of Planned Parenthood’s abortion practice and baby parts sales in which fetuses are sometimes delivered intact and alive. Planned Parenthood is a criminal organization from the top down and should be immediately stripped of taxpayer funding and prosecuted for their atrocities against humanity.”
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