The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) vs Planned Parenthood
On the video (below), Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the senior director of medical services at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, is seen talking matter-of-factly about the organization's participation in baby/fetal tissue-selling programs as she slugs down wine and chomps a salad. I would have thought that Planned Parenthood made enough from the federal government that they wouldn't need to stuff their pockets from cash derived from selling dead babies that they harvest (late second trimester and early third trimester children have more value).
Nucatola talks about doctors performing abortions in which ultrasound is used to ascertain the best location to grab the fetus with forceps. She explains, "We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver because we know that, I'm not going to crush that part."
On the video, Nucatola describes the best strategy to extract calavarium, or skulls, intact, but it is not clear if she is speaking in general terms or if she is describing Planned Parenthood's methods. And then, she says nothing about whether or not the fetus is still alive when it's delivered.
"And with the calvarium, in general, some people will actually try to change the presentation so that it's not vertex, because when it's vertex presentation, you never have enough dilation at the beginning of the case, unless you have real, huge amount of dilation to deliver an intact calvarium. So if you do it starting from the breech presentation, there's dilation that happens as the case goes on, and often, the last, you can evacuate an intact calvarium at the end."
Make of this what you will.
To be fair to the other side, progressives contend that the babies who Planned Parenthood kills are not alive, and that the parts that they harvest are sold simply to medical laboratories for experimentation to reimburse their costs.
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