'We can see how much we get out of it'

The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released another video this morning exposing Planned Parenthood’s illegal profiteering from fetal tissue sales. The latest documentary-style short film features a former procurement specialist relating her experience working in a Planned Parenthood facility.

Holly O’Donnell, a licensed phlebotomist, harvested fetal tissue for StemExpress for six months. When she applied, she thought her job required drawing blood. Instead, she was asked to dissect an aborted baby on her first day of work at a Planned Parenthood facility. She fainted after picking up a leg with tweezers.

“Don’t worry: It still happens to a bunch of us,” a nurse told her in a recovery room. “Some of us don’t ever get over it.”

The main nurse at the facility especially encouraged the procurement specialists to obtain specimens.

“No one else really cared, but the main nurse did because she knew that Planned Parenthood was getting compensated,” O’Donell says in the video.

Today’s release is CMP’s third video (see below), and the first episode in its documentary series Human Capital. In addition to O’Donnell’s testimony, the episode also includes more undercover footage of Planned Parenthood executives.

After showing footage of fetal dissections and specimens, the video records Dr. Savita Ginde, vice president and medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, discussing specimen prices. She says per-specimen pricing will be most beneficial: “I think a per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.”

StemExpress, one of Planned Parenthood’s major tissue buyers, advertises the financial profitability of partnerships with abortion facilities, according to its website: “StemExpress promotes global biomedical research while also providing a financial benefit to your clinic. By partnering with StemExpress … you will also be contributing to the fiscal growth of your own clinic.”

Today’s video release coincides with more than 60 rallies organized by Students for Life of America (SFLA) held today across the country. Using the hashtag #WomenBetrayed, the rallies call for an investigation into Planned Parenthood and defunding on state and federal levels. Planned Parenthood gets more than $500 million in federal funds. The Washington, D.C., rally includes GOP presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson, Concerned Women for American president Penny Nance, and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who sponsored defunding legislation in the Senate.

“Today’s video shows America the horrific, bloody result of abortion—a dead baby,” SFLA president Kristan Hawkins said in a press release. “This time it’s not pro-lifers standing outside abortion clinics with gory photos of the truth: It’s Planned Parenthood holding those babies. Game changed.”

Amid the mounting angst against Planned Parenthood, another group of pro-life activists—calling themselves “social justice warriors”—claim to have hacked Planned Parenthood on Sunday night, releasing website databases and names and emails of Planned Parenthood employees.

“Trying to mold an atrocious monstrosity into socially acceptable behaviors is repulsive,” one of the hackers, using the alias “E,” told The Daily Dot. “Obviously what [Planned Parenthood] does is a very ominous practice. It’ll be interesting to see what surfaces when [Planned Parenthood] is stripped naked and exposed to the public.”

Planned Parenthood executive vice president Dawn Laguens told the Daily Dot the organization is investigating the hacker’s claims. “It’s unsurprising that those opposed to safe and legal abortion are participating in this campaign of harassment against us and our patients, and claiming to stoop to this new low.”

But major pro-life groups are only highlighting the need to pass legislation defunding Planned Parenthood federally and protect innocent life. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has called for the passage of legislation like the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

“To hear these senior Planned Parenthood doctors and executives coldly pricing baby body parts—liver, heart, lungs, kidneys, brains, and limbs—with such casual disregard for the unborn children killed to obtain those parts is reprehensible,” said NRLC president Carol Tobias. ““It’s time to stand up and say ‘enough is enough.’”