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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnti-Abortion Group Releases Second Undercover Planned Parenthood Video
The edited video, posted Tuesday morning, appears to show a Planned Parenthood official discussing compensation for providing specimens with two actors posing as tissue buyers. At one point, one of the actors appears to ask the official, whom the group identified as Dr. Mary Gatter, a member of Planned Parenthood's national board who has also overseen affiliates in California, what she expects to be paid for intact tissue specimens.
"Well, why don't you start by telling me what you are used to paying," Gatter appears to say, later adding, "Well, you know in negotiations the person who throws out the figure first is at a loss, right?"
In response to the first video that The Center for Medical Progress released last week, Planned Parenthood Federation of America acknowledged that its affiliates participate in tissue donations at the consent of its patients, but that it does not profit off the programs. The organization has said that providers only charge researchers the costs to procure and transport the tissue specimens, which it says abides by legal and industry standards.
In Tuesday's video, Gatter appears to nod to this policy. "But see ... we don't ... We're not in it for the money and we don't want to be," she appears to say. "We want don't to be in the position of being accused of selling tissue and stuff like that. On the other hand, there are costs associated with the use of our space, and all that kind of stuff."
At the end of the video, the official appears to crack a joke about the negotiations for the specimen prices: "I want a Lamborghini.
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Elmergantry
(884 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)IcyPeas
(21,915 posts)Her tactics are effective - she engages young people via twitter, facebook, etc.
http://fusion.net/video/168446/young-women-fighting-abortion-illegal/
https://www.facebook.com/lilagracerose
https://liveaction.org/lilarose/
http://www.metafilter.com/151327/The-young-women-fighting-to-make-abortion-illegal#6132239
Planned Parenthood need more help and support from these pro-life groups. Not enough progressive politicians take up this subject.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)name gets mentioned.
Liars.
IcyPeas
(21,915 posts)Johonny
(20,909 posts)She and her friends are psychopathic scumbags. I'm sick of the dishonesty of the "pro-life" crowd. When are conservatives honest about any subject. When it comes to women's rights it is just freaking disgusting what they do and say with little push back.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)with donated fetal tissue, organs, or whatever. They could sell to the highest bidder which could be that restaurant Brando managed in "The Freshman" and they can grind it up and make it patee, I don't give a shit. These fucking anti-choice assholes have no shame, will distort, lie and cheat to try to reduce women's choices. Fuck them.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)When you have perfectly good and viable meat and organs there, I prefer it goes the science over being discarded as medical waste.
I don't care about donations or consent either, once its removed logically it should become the property of planned parenthood or their contractors and they should have to choice of what to do with it.
If a doctor wants to sell it, big deal.
All the right is doing is grasping at straws here but hopefully Planned Parenthood will take their personal security more seriously and not meet with any joker claiming to work with a lab, how about doing a little background check and verification first?
Elmergantry
(884 posts)But as of now its against the law to sell parts for profit. PP needs to obey the law; they don't need to provide ammunition to the anti-choicers