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America's biggest baby-killer business has done it again: the got caught selling baby body parts to a university for shady research.
There are documents released under a California public records request showing that the abortion factory was selling 23-week-old aborted babies.
The documents that have been recently exposed demonstrate that Planned Parenthood, an organization that doesn't plan parenthood but ends it, has been providing the University of California, San Diego with fetal tissue from fetuses aborted in elective procedures, up to the 23-week mark, where these fetuses might have been viable outside the womb. These contracts hint at a trade where fetal material is used in research, with the possibility of gaining intellectual property rights in return.
David Daleiden from the Center for Medical Progress, among other critics, argues that these arrangements could breach laws by potentially engaging in illegal partial-birth abortions and showing racial bias in the consent process. There's been an upsurge in demands for a federal investigation, asserting that there might be a breach of regulations concerning the sale of human tissue for monetary gain.
The transactions involving the sale of aborted fetuses and their parts were detailed in agreements where UCSD was to acquire “proprietary” fetal material from Planned Parenthood. In return, Planned Parenthood would receive "valuable consideration," meaning they would own any patents or intellectual property resulting from research using this material.
This troubling revelation starts with a heavily-censored research plan that the UCSD Institutional Review Board (IRB) accepted in 2018. Specifically on page 3, it's noted that the research lab at UCSD intended to "collect tissues from fetuses with gestational ages of 4 to 23 weeks from individuals having elective abortions at Planned Parenthood in San Diego." The document also specifies that fetuses deemed "viable and nonanomalous" were included in the study. It's crucial to note that at 23 weeks, most healthy fetuses can now survive with the aid of advanced medical technology.
The IRB submission elaborates that part of the clinical data for each subject will involve “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilation and evacuation procedure.” The research project aimed to procure fetal material from as many as 2,500 patients.
In related communications at the time of the plan's creation, an individual involved in the harvesting process mentions, “[A]ny sample greater than about 12.5w[eeks] requires the use of a dilating medication which is given to the patients 3 hours ahead of their procedure (these are called “cyto” patients).” “Cyto” refers to Cytotec, or Misoprostol, which is commonly utilized in medical abortions to induce labor contractions.
Research indicates that a dose of 50 micrograms of Misoprostol can typically initiate labor within 4 hours. However, Planned Parenthood's guidelines suggest using between 400 to 800 micrograms for later-stage "dilation and evacuation" abortions, which is significantly more, and they advise against letting patients depart from the facility after receiving the medication.
“Planned Parenthood’s use of heavy doses of a labor contraction drug to dilate pregnant women targeted for a viable fetus harvesting project means these are likely not standard ‘dismemberment’ abortions, but either intact partial-birth abortions or full delivery of live preemies,” notes David Daleiden, founder and president of CMP.
Further email correspondence supports this assertion. When discussing the collection of fetal hearts, a UCSD researcher asked the harvesting lab, “Is there someone that we can coordinate with in your lab? We were unclear as to whether you bring the fetuses back to your lab for dissections or if the dissections will be done in clinic. I can have my folks who are cc’d coordinate with whomever is doing the collection.”
Documentation from earlier this year, obtained through a public records request, revealed that there were transfers of aborted fetuses from Planned Parenthood to UC San Diego facilitated by a “Biological Materials Transfer Agreement” contract. This contract, exchanged for “valuable consideration,” allows UCSD “access” to “fetal and placental tissue, which are proprietary materials of PPSD”. It stipulates that “PPSD shall retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Material, including but not limited to all right, title, and interest in patents and patent applications and other intellectual property rights relating to the Material”.
In March, Sen. Marco Rubio requested an investigation from the U.S. DOJ and HHS. The transfer of any aborted human fetal tissue for “valuable consideration” is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2).
Disturbingly, the documents released today also show racial discrimination in what consent forms for the harvesting program tell pregnant women at Planned Parenthood. The English-language forms include 15 bullet-pointed disclosures, the thirteenth of which states: “I understand that the donated blood, tissue, or their derivatives may have significant therapeutic or commercial value. I consent to such uses.” However, this disclosure about the “commercial value” of the patient’s aborted baby is missing from the Spanish-language forms. The documents show UCSD’s IRB approved the racially-disparate translations in at least four consecutive years, from 2017 to 2020.
“The University of California’s documents show Planned Parenthood using labor-inducing chemical abortion drugs to deliver viable, healthy preemies with ultrasound-documented heartbeats in their taxpayer-funded abortion factories—and rather than rushing those preemies to the University hospital NICU, they cut out their hearts and other body parts to sell for patent royalty-generating experiments,” states Daleiden. “These are not just the federal crimes of partial-birth abortion and selling body parts, but also of murder for hire—disparately targeted to Spanish-speaking minorities. State and federal authorities should act to protect the civil rights of mothers and infants immediately.”
Today’s revelation comes just one day after alleged President Joe Biden gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, who oversaw the aborted baby part sales.
David Daleiden from the Center for Medical Progress, among other critics, argues that these arrangements could breach laws by potentially engaging in illegal partial-birth abortions and showing racial bias in the consent process. There's been an upsurge in demands for a federal investigation, asserting that there might be a breach of regulations concerning the sale of human tissue for monetary gain.
This troubling revelation starts with a heavily-censored research plan that the UCSD Institutional Review Board (IRB) accepted in 2018. Specifically on page 3, it's noted that the research lab at UCSD intended to "collect tissues from fetuses with gestational ages of 4 to 23 weeks from individuals having elective abortions at Planned Parenthood in San Diego." The document also specifies that fetuses deemed "viable and nonanomalous" were included in the study. It's crucial to note that at 23 weeks, most healthy fetuses can now survive with the aid of advanced medical technology.
The IRB submission elaborates that part of the clinical data for each subject will involve “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilation and evacuation procedure.” The research project aimed to procure fetal material from as many as 2,500 patients.
In related communications at the time of the plan's creation, an individual involved in the harvesting process mentions, “[A]ny sample greater than about 12.5w[eeks] requires the use of a dilating medication which is given to the patients 3 hours ahead of their procedure (these are called “cyto” patients).” “Cyto” refers to Cytotec, or Misoprostol, which is commonly utilized in medical abortions to induce labor contractions.
Research indicates that a dose of 50 micrograms of Misoprostol can typically initiate labor within 4 hours. However, Planned Parenthood's guidelines suggest using between 400 to 800 micrograms for later-stage "dilation and evacuation" abortions, which is significantly more, and they advise against letting patients depart from the facility after receiving the medication.
“Planned Parenthood’s use of heavy doses of a labor contraction drug to dilate pregnant women targeted for a viable fetus harvesting project means these are likely not standard ‘dismemberment’ abortions, but either intact partial-birth abortions or full delivery of live preemies,” notes David Daleiden, founder and president of CMP.
Further email correspondence supports this assertion. When discussing the collection of fetal hearts, a UCSD researcher asked the harvesting lab, “Is there someone that we can coordinate with in your lab? We were unclear as to whether you bring the fetuses back to your lab for dissections or if the dissections will be done in clinic. I can have my folks who are cc’d coordinate with whomever is doing the collection.”
Documentation from earlier this year, obtained through a public records request, revealed that there were transfers of aborted fetuses from Planned Parenthood to UC San Diego facilitated by a “Biological Materials Transfer Agreement” contract. This contract, exchanged for “valuable consideration,” allows UCSD “access” to “fetal and placental tissue, which are proprietary materials of PPSD”. It stipulates that “PPSD shall retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Material, including but not limited to all right, title, and interest in patents and patent applications and other intellectual property rights relating to the Material”.
In March, Sen. Marco Rubio requested an investigation from the U.S. DOJ and HHS. The transfer of any aborted human fetal tissue for “valuable consideration” is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2).
Disturbingly, the documents released today also show racial discrimination in what consent forms for the harvesting program tell pregnant women at Planned Parenthood. The English-language forms include 15 bullet-pointed disclosures, the thirteenth of which states: “I understand that the donated blood, tissue, or their derivatives may have significant therapeutic or commercial value. I consent to such uses.” However, this disclosure about the “commercial value” of the patient’s aborted baby is missing from the Spanish-language forms. The documents show UCSD’s IRB approved the racially-disparate translations in at least four consecutive years, from 2017 to 2020.
“The University of California’s documents show Planned Parenthood using labor-inducing chemical abortion drugs to deliver viable, healthy preemies with ultrasound-documented heartbeats in their taxpayer-funded abortion factories—and rather than rushing those preemies to the University hospital NICU, they cut out their hearts and other body parts to sell for patent royalty-generating experiments,” states Daleiden. “These are not just the federal crimes of partial-birth abortion and selling body parts, but also of murder for hire—disparately targeted to Spanish-speaking minorities. State and federal authorities should act to protect the civil rights of mothers and infants immediately.”
Today’s revelation comes just one day after alleged President Joe Biden gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, who oversaw the aborted baby part sales.
If that doesn't disgust you, I have no words.
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