According to their press release:

In the video, actors posing as representatives from a human biologics company meet with Farrell at the abortion-clinic headquarters of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston to discuss a potential partnership to harvest fetal organs.

“Where we probably have an edge over other organizations, our organization has been doing research for many many years,” explains Farrell. When researchers need a specific part from the aborted fetus, Farrell says, “We bake that into our contract, and our protocol, that we follow this, so we deviate from our standard in order to do that.”

Asked specifically if this means Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast can change abortion procedures to supply intact fetal specimens, Farrell affirms,“We bake that into our contract, and our protocol, that we follow this, so we deviate from our standard in order to do that.”

The investigators ask Farrell how she will frame a contract in which they pay a higher price for higher quality fetal body parts, and she replies, “We can work it out in the context of–obviously, the procedure itself is more complicated,” suggesting that “without having you cover the procedural cost” and paying for the abortion, the higher specimen price could be framed as “additional time, cost, administrative burden.”

Farrell finally summarizes her affiliate’s approach to fetal tissue payments: “If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. It’s all just a matter of line items.”

The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue 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). Federal law also requires that no alteration in the timing or method of abortion be done for the purposes of fetal tissue collection (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).

Farrell also indicates to the investigators over lunch that the specimen sales from her department contribute significantly to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s overall finances: “I think everyone realizes, especially because my department contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in the United States. Larger than any the other affiliates’ combined.” In a Texas Senate hearing on July 29, former Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast clinic director Abby Johnson estimated that the affiliate had previously made up to $120,000 per month off of aborted fetal tissue.

This is the fifth video released by The Center for Medical Progress documenting the sale of aborted baby body parts by Planned Parenthood. According to Dave Daleiden, the Project Lead:

This is now the fifth member of Planned Parenthood leadership discussing payments for aborted baby parts without any connection to actual costs of so-called tissue ‘donation.’ Planned Parenthood’s system-wide conspiracy to evade the law and make money off of aborted fetal tissue is now undeniable.

Anyone who watches these videos knows that Planned Parenthood is engaged in barbaric practices and human rights abuses that must end. There is no reason for an organization that uses illegal abortion methods to sell baby parts and commit such atrocities against humanity to still receive over $500 million each year from taxpayers.

The video just released is below:

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Undercover videos that recently emerged show that the organization has been selling fetal organs from both early and late-term abortions to tissue companies.

The bill to defund Planned Parenthood, after the videos were released to the public, was proposed by first-term Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), with the Obama White House strongly opposed to it.

Josh Earnest, the WH press secretary, told CNN on Monday that while he had not personally seen the videos, he believe the videos had been “selectively edited.” Of course this is despite that fact that full and unedited footage of the videos has also been released by The Center for Medical Progress, the organization behind the undercover operation.

Earnest also added in his CNN appearance, “What the President has said is that Planned Parenthood provides valuable services, health care services for men and women across the country. He would veto any legislation that tried to advance wholesale defunding for Planned Parenthood.”

The vote for cloture needed 60 votes to end debate and proceed to a vote on the defunding of the organization. It fell short of the needed 60, with a vote of 53-46, which ended largely along partisan lines.

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) crossed his party line to vote with the Democrats, while Sen. Joe Machin (D-WV) and Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) voted on the side of the Republicans. House Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) votes with the Democrats, however this was a vote he needed to cast to keep the option open for a re-vote.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is running in the Republican 2016 Presidential Primary, skipped the vote in order to campaign in New Hampshire, while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who were also at an event in New Hampshire that night, went back to DC in order to cast their votes.

The latest video that was released by The Center for Medical Progress shows a Planned Parenthood representative talking about “intact fetal cadavers” being nothing but “line items” and explaining about how they can manipulate the abortion process to provide more intact specimens.