<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood</a> staff and managers appeared to discuss the sale of aborted babies’ body parts and other gruesome abortion practices in videos viewed publicly for the first time this week by lawmakers during a hearing in Washington, D.C.
At the Tuesday hearing, called “Investigating the Black Market of Baby Organ Harvesting,” Center for Medical Progress (CMP) President David Daleiden told lawmakers that videos obtained by his organization showed Planned Parenthood revealing that it had a “financial incentive” to sell the body parts of aborted babies and discussing their brutal abortion practices.
“These video clips from the subpoenaed congressional footage are just a small part of incredibly disturbing and incriminating undercover conversations that prove Planned Parenthood sells baby parts,” Daleiden <a href="https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2024/03/new-videos-planned-parenthood-seeks-1500-per-fetal-liver-financial-incentive-docs-can-pull-off-a-leg-or-two-to-hide-partial-birth-abortions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Planned Parenthood and their allies tried to cover up this footage for eight years because of the brutal facts it reveals about their taxpayer-funded business to kill and sell vulnerable infants.”
The hearing was hosted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), and Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL). The CMP exploded onto the scene in 2015 after it first released footage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-journalists-who-exposed-planned-parenthoods-baby-body-parts-trade-found-guilty?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;utm_content=non_insiders&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-80WqjFl8ts5THjH_X0GnN5taykN-kZmaZzJvVcIYKJHqzrWikAaeg5NTSzUUZHabcQGKdDhdPLX7vbBL26nFT8jL5tXg&amp;_hsmi=79496569" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showing</a> Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of body parts from aborted babies.
The clips played on Tuesday before the lawmakers were recorded years ago, but were previously unable to be released due to court order.
In one clip played during the testimony, a woman identified by CMP as Planned Parenthood New York City’s Medical Director for Abortion Services Dr. Stacy De-Lin is told by a Center for Medical Progress investigator that she “could pay you $1,000, up to $1,500 for a liver.”
De-Lin responded by saying, “Yeah, that’s great,” and, “I think a financial incentive from you guys like, to the people we have to get this approved from, will be very happy about it,” according to the video shared by CMP.
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CMP said that another one of the videos showed then-Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ann Schutt-Aine discussing ways to get around federal law banning partial birth abortions.
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“If I’m seeing that I’m in fear that it’s about to come to the umbilicus [navel], I might ask for a second set of forceps to hold the body at the cervix and pull off a leg or two, so it’s not PBA [partial-birth abortion],” Schutt-Aine said, according to the CMP video.
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In a different video featuring one of Schutt-Aine’s colleagues, an individual identified by CMP as Planned Parenthood employee Tram Nguyen says that sometimes an arm is ripped off the unborn baby during an abortion. “[O]ther days it’s [the fetus is] like more intact where it’s like maybe only like an arm that’s disarticulated,” she said, the CMP video shows.
Another video showed Planned Parenthood trainer Dr. Uta Landy reading from quotes about people who had been trained to do abortions, according to CMP.
“My coping mechanism is to focus on the baby/fetus. Reverence for something that was once alive and now it’s not,” one person said. Another said, “An eyeball just fell down into my lap, and that is gross,” prompting laughter from the abortionists in the audience.
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Planned Parenthood did not immediately return request for comment.

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New legislation introduced by Republican Florida Rep. Scott Franklin zeroes in on allegations that abortion providers are profiting from the sale of fetal remains.
The Prohibiting Abortion Industry’s Lucrative Loopholes Act, first obtained by The Daily Wire, prohibits payments, reimbursements, gifts, or compensation of fetal tissue by closing the “valuable consideration” loophole in current law and punishing violators with fines or up to ten years in prison.
&#8220;Abortion providers should never be allowed to profit off the death of innocent victims,&#8221; Franklin told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The fact that they can exploit a loophole in the law to do so is a terrible congressional oversight that should have been addressed years ago.&#8221;
Though Congress outlawed the for-profit sale of fetal remains in 1993, organizations like the Planned Parenthood Federation of America have <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/planned-parenthood-stops-taking-reimbursements-for-fetal-tissue-1444744800">publicly</a> acknowledged payments for fetal tissue but explain them away by claiming they were only reimbursed for costs.
Planned Parenthood has subsequently said it would no longer accept even reimbursement for fetal remains when Center for Medical Progress (CMP) President David Daleiden, a pro-life activist, secretly recorded and published videos of Planned Parenthood employees in 2013 and 2014 <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/17/planned-parenthood-video-abortions/">purportedly discussing</a> the sale of fetal body parts.
Though Planned Parenthood sued both Daleiden and the CMP in March 2016, saying the videos were deceptively edited, the footage has had a lasting impact on pro-life legislation and rhetoric and prompted scrutiny of Planned Parenthood by authorities and lawmakers.
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The Public Health Service Act currently <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/guidance/public-law-103-43/index.html#:~:text=498B.,the%20transfer%20affects%20interstate%20commerce.">states</a> that &#8220;it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration if the transfer affects interstate commerce.&#8221;
The act also states that it is unlawful for anyone to &#8220;solicit or knowingly acquire, receive, or accept a donation of human fetal tissue for the purpose of transplantation of such tissue into another person&#8221; if the &#8220;person who solicits or knowingly acquires, receives, or accepts the donation has provided valuable consideration for the costs associated with such abortion.&#8221;
Franklin&#8217;s legislation proposes redefining &#8220;valuable consideration&#8221; to include &#8220;any payment made or debt incurred,&#8221; &#8220;any gift, honorarium, or recognition of value bestowed,&#8221; &#8220;any price, charge, or fee which is waived, forgiven, reduced, or indefinitely delayed,&#8221; &#8220;any loan or debt which is canceled or otherwise forgiven,&#8221; &#8220;the transfer of any item from one person to another or provision of any service or granting of any opportunity for which a charge is customarily made, without charge or for a reduced charge,&#8221; &#8220;and any payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue.’’
The legislation is supported by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List and co-sponsored by a slew of Republicans, including Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, Alex Mooney of West Virginia, Ben Cline of Virginia, Brian Mast of Florida, Jim Banks of Indiana, Jody Nice of Georgia, and Andy Biggs of Arizona.
In December 2016, then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley referred multiple Planned Parenthood affiliates and companies to the FBI and the Department of Justice for investigation and possible prosecution.
“I don’t take lightly making a criminal referral,&#8221; Grassley said at the time. &#8220;But, the seeming disregard for the law by these entities has been fueled by decades of utter failure by the Justice Department to enforce it.&#8221;
&#8220;And, unless there is a renewed commitment by everyone involved against commercializing the trade in aborted fetal body parts for profit, then the problem is likely to continue,&#8221; he added.

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Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) tweeted Monday that he and others are pledging to refuse to confirm Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden&#8217;s pick to helm the Health and Human Services administration, Xavier Becerra, over concerns he&#8217;ll use the office to target abortion opponents, similar to the way he targeted pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in California.
Biden announced Becerra&#8217;s new role Monday morning, defying expectations that he would appoint the former Congressman and current California Attorney General to a role within the Department of Justice.
Democrats, and particularly progressives, applauded the choice, noting that Becerra was an advocate for universal health coverage while in Congress and is recently on the record as a supporter for a Medicare-for-All-style health care system, though Joe Biden refused to make such a plan part of his campaign for president, citing a need, instead, for overhauling and refining parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Republicans, though, were quick to point out that Becerra signals a willingness on the part of a Biden administration to target abortion opponents directly. As attorney general, Becerra tried to force pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, which provide free prenatal care to expectant mothers but do not offer abortions, to provide potential patients with information about where they could obtain a free or low-cost abortion.
Cotton tweeted his pledge on Monday, saying, flatly that he would be &#8220;voting no, and Becerra should be rejected by the Senate.&#8221;
&#8220;Xavier Becerra spent his career attacking pro-life Americans and tried to force crisis pregnancy centers to advertise abortions,&#8221; Cotton wrote. &#8220;He&#8217;s been a disaster in California and he is unqualified to lead HHS. I’ll be voting no, and Becerra should be rejected by the Senate.&#8221;
The resulting legal case, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where Becerra lost. The Supreme Court approved a preliminary injunction against the law, titled the &#8220;Reproductive FACT Act,&#8221; noting that requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to inform patients about abortion likely violated their First Amendment rights to both free speech and to free exercise.
At the time, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/26/supreme-court-crisis-pregnancy-centers-673183">Politico notes</a>, Becerra pledged to continue targeting abortion opponents.
&#8220;California Attorney General Xavier Becerra called the decision &#8216;unfortunate&#8217; and said the state will continue working to &#8216;ensure that Californians receive accurate information&#8217; about their health options. His office did not indicate how the state would respond,&#8221; the outlet noted. “&#8217;When it comes to making their health decisions, all California women — regardless of their economic background or zip code — deserve access to critical and non-biased information to make their own informed decisions,'&#8221; Becerra said.&#8221;
Pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List also pointed out that Becerra continued prosecuting David Daleidin, a journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood&#8217;s alleged involvement in &#8220;baby parts trafficking.&#8221;
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The appointment does seem in line with a potential Biden administration&#8217;s approach to pro-lifers and others who have a religious objection to promoting or providing abortion or contraception. Biden has promised to reinstate the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s contraception mandate, <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/biden-says-catholic-nuns-inspire-him-to-run-plans-to-sue-little-sisters-of-the-poor-12427">Catholic News Agency reports</a>, removing freedom of conscious protections that exempt religious employers from violating religious beliefs preventing them from providing birth control free of charge to employees.
&#8220;Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania on July 8, Biden said he was &#8216;disappointed&#8217; by the decision and promised to reinstate Obama-era policies requiring the sisters to ensure access to birth control in violation of their religious beliefs,&#8221; CNA reported.
“If I am elected I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the [Supreme Court’s 2014] Hobby Lobby ruling: providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions,” Biden said in July.

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The jury in the “Baby Body Parts” trial of activist and journalist David Daleiden has delivered a blow to undercover journalism, declaring that secret filming is now illegal and can leave journalists open to massive damages.
Planned Parenthood was awarded almost $2 million for the filming after alleging activist journalist David Daleiden secretly recorded executives negotiating to sell baby body parts.
Peter Breen, a lawyer for Mr. Daleiden, said the judgement is a direct threat to undercover journalism in California and across the country.
“Undercover Journalism now comes with a $2 million price tag,” he said.
Mr. Breen blamed Judge William Orrick&#8217;s directions to the jury for the verdict.
“The judge should have told them that Mr. Daleiden&#8217;s filming was protected by the First Amendment. Instead, he told them the First Amendment is no defense, which is outrageous and not the law. When you have a series of unfair rulings, you can’t expect a fair verdict,” Breen said.
Judge Orrick <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-in-planned-parenthood-trial-orders-guilty-verdict-against-journalist">told the jury</a> in advance of their verdict that he has decided to find Daleiden guilty of trespass during his undercover journalism. Daleiden previously lost an attempt to have Judge Orrick removed from the case, alleging he was biased against the defendants.
Planned Parenthood sued Daleiden and his colleagues after they released secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the sale and price of baby body parts from abortions in their facilities. Planned Parenthood made a series of claims – stating they had caused damages because of their invasion of privacy with the undercover filming, fraud because they set up a false buying company, and RICO conspiracy because a number of people worked together in the project. RICO charges are more normally associated with criminal mafia cases. The jury found for Planned Parenthood in all their claims.
Daleiden and his colleagues Sandra Merritt, Albin Rhomberg, Adrian Lopez and Troy Newman, denied all the charges.
Planned Parenthood originally sought $20 million in damages against Daleiden and his colleagues. Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure better and more profitable body parts were retrieved for sale. His attorneys argue that the recordings took place in public places, such as restaurants and hotels, where participants have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Planned Parenthood did not sue Daleiden for defamation or slander and the organization’s lawyers did not state that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. They instead claimed that they were filmed as a result of trespassing and other illegal methods. The organization is also claiming Daleiden and his colleagues are guilty of fraud for setting up a fake company and identifications to open business conversations with Planned Parenthood executives.
The defendants argued that they were involved in journalism and revealing criminal activity.
Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling book “Gosnell – The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer” and host of the podcast &#8220;The Ann and Phelim Scoop.&#8221;
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Journalists Who Exposed Planned Parenthood’s ‘Baby Body Parts’ Trade Found Guilty

The judge in the “Baby Body Parts” trial of activist and journalist David Daleiden has ordered the jury find him guilty of trespassing at Planned Parenthood conferences and clinics — before the jury retired to consider a verdict.
Planned Parenthood is suing Daleiden and his colleagues after they released secretly recorded videos of executives haggling over the sale and price of baby body parts from abortions in their facilities.
Daleiden is contesting all the charges. However, Judge William Orrick told the jury that he has decided to find Daleiden guilty of trespass during his undercover journalism. Daleiden previously lost an attempt to have Judge Orrick removed from the case, alleging he was biased against the defendants.
Thejudge stated that the jury must find that Daleiden and others “trespassed at the 2014 Forum in Miami, Florida; at the 2015 MeDC meeting in Orlando, Florida; and the 2015 National Conference in Washington, D.C.”
“I have already determined that these defendants trespassed at each of these locations. Because I determined that these defendants trespassed, the law assumes that Planned Parenthood has been harmed and is entitled to an award of nominal damages such as one dollar for each trespass,” he told the jury as the trial comes to a conclusion.
The judge said he had also determined that Daleiden and his colleagues trespassed at the Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain Center in Colorado and a Planned Parenthood Center in Texas.
The judge said the jury must accept his rulings and only decide if Planned Parenthood suffered damage from the trespass and what damages they should be awarded.
Planned Parenthood originally sought $20 million in damages for trespassing, fraud, and RICO conspiracy against Daleiden and his colleagues. However, Judge Orrick reduced potential damages to $600,000.
Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure better and more profitable body parts were retrieved for sale. His attorneys argue that the recordings took place in public places, such as restaurants and hotels, where participants have no expectation of privacy.
Planned Parenthood is not suing Daleiden for defamation or slander and the organization’s lawyers did not state that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. They instead claimed they were filmed as a result of trespassing and other illegal methods. The organization is also claiming Daleiden and his colleagues are guilty of fraud for setting up a fake company and identifications to open business conversations with Planned Parenthood executives.
Addressing the jury at the close of the trial, Peter Breen, counsel for Daleiden and his colleagues, said the case is “about the steps it took for private citizen investigators to cut through a curtain of silence and concealment.”
“They didn&#8217;t do it for profit or for personal gain.  They did it for the paramount public purpose of letting Americans know and law enforcers investigate whether and to what extent our laws may have been violated. And they are not just any laws, but these are laws relating to homicide against born human beings, laws against the selling of body parts and organs of aborted human fetuses, and the laws against changing medical procedures without knowledge and consent to obtain more valuable fetal parts,” he told the jury.
He referred to Planned Parenthood lawyers stating that the case is about “protecting the brand.”
“But what is it, that hurt the brand? The very words spoken by Planned Parenthood personnel on those videos is what hurt the brand,” Breen contended.
Breen argued that at no point during the trial did Planned Parenthood dispute the accuracy of the secretly recorded videos.
“Now, Planned Parenthood could have tried to dispute this issue, but when push came to shove here at trial, a place where you need hard evidence to back up your claims, they had nothing. This is what so outraged the public. The true words of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s top abortion doctors and other personnel,” he told the jury.
He added that it was not a case of fraud or racketeering but rather one about the freedom of the press.
“This is a case of undercover journalism. And we, the people, need that information. You need that information. You may not like seeing that information. It may be difficult or whatever. But we don&#8217;t want to stop the flow of information.”
Also addressing the jury was Charles Limandri, another lawyer for Daleiden and his colleagues, who said the evidence they heard showed “people, obviously, making huge profits selling and buying fetal tissue, which is not legal.”
“Different people understanding they have different views about using undercover techniques where you have to misrepresent your identity and misrepresent why you&#8217;re there.  But if you&#8217;re doing it to save human lives and to stop the type of atrocities that we&#8217;re talking about here, it&#8217;s fully justifiable,” he added.
He said the charges were an attempt by Planned Parenthood to “conceal criminal activity.”
“And they even want you to use a threat of punitive damages to stop them — stop anybody from ever being able to show — do that again. And they want to destroy these defendants, financially.”
The jury has retired to consider its verdict.
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