The select committee investigating the sale of baby body parts by abortion clinics got to see a chart put out by the middlemen in fetal parts procurement, that includes prices. It is a grim reminder of what was going on behind the scenes at abortion clinics across the country. Abortion clinics who charge for fetal body parts violate federal law.
Considering the vast number of abortions that providers such as Planned Parenthood perform each year, it becomes obvious what a profitable, but ghoulish business trafficking in baby parts really is. The name of the procurement company isn’t given, nor are the specific abortion clinics participating in the pay for play scheme. Planned Parenthood claims they only charged for handling and shipping the parts. That would seem to be false also since the procurement company would send someone to get the mother to release the fetus for parts, prepare the specimen and then shipping it off to the company, who would then sell the parts for research.
Brian Lennon, a former U.S. prosecutor testified before the panel Wednesday:
“I believe a competent and ethical prosecutor could determine probable cause that both the abortion clinic and the procurement business violated the statute, aided and abetted one another in violating the statute and likely conspired together to violate the statute. In fact for five or six elements in the subsequent defense, in my opinion, there is proof without a reasonable doubt.”
The procurement company and the abortion provider were not named during the hearing but is generally thought that they are StemExpress and Planned Parenthoodlums.