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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 11:53 AM Jul 2015

Anti-Abortion Group Releases Second Undercover Planned Parenthood Video

The Center for Medical Progress, a group with ties to the anti-abortion movement, released a second video that it says shows that Planned Parenthood affiliates are profiting off providing researchers with fetal tissue from abortions.

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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IcyPeas

(21,915 posts)
3. Lila Rose, president of Liveaction
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 06:42 PM
Jul 2015

Her tactics are effective - she engages young people via twitter, facebook, etc.

http://fusion.net/video/168446/young-women-fighting-abortion-illegal/

As Live Action’s president, Lila leads undercover investigations into America’s most notorious abortion facilities, shining a light on the greatest human rights abuse of our time through national media campaigns.



https://www.facebook.com/lilagracerose

https://liveaction.org/lilarose/

http://www.metafilter.com/151327/The-young-women-fighting-to-make-abortion-illegal#6132239

You know what's funny (except really not)? The woman James O'Keefe teamed up with to "infiltrate" Planned Parenthood clinics (before the ACORN stunt) was Lila Rose. Last year, Lila Rose interviewed Tess and Sydney Volanski, two girls who "launched" the website SpeakNowGirlScouts.com to gain support for their boycott of the Girl Scouts "for exposing girls to Planned ...


Wait... Is this where the shit I heard about Planned Parenthood being some sex slave enablers coming from? In fact, I heard it on NPR when they were discussing the Title X bullshit, and an anti-abortion activist was like "Planned Parenthood is engaging in sex slavery" I heard the explanation, but what a crock of right-wing propaganda. But is that where this bunk came from? O'Keefe? ... God I hate that guy. No, not him directly. Lila Rose was the one who did the PP videos. Her and James are buddies, and are/were schooled ...


In 2008, Lila Rose, a college student at U.C.L.A. and the founder of an anti-abortion group called Live Action, released four audio recordings of a man trying to make donations to Planned Parenthood clinics to pay for black women’s abortions. In one, the caller, played by James O’Keefe III, the provocateur recently arrested on charges that he tried to tamper with the telephones of Senator Mary L. ...


Planned Parenthood need more help and support from these pro-life groups. Not enough progressive politicians take up this subject.
 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
4. I saw the thread title and thought "O'Keefe" and sure enough that ugly f*ck's
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 06:46 PM
Jul 2015

name gets mentioned.

Liars.

Johonny

(20,909 posts)
7. She works by distortion and lies
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 07:20 PM
Jul 2015

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)
6. I absolutely hate these anti-choice fuckers, I don't give a shit what Planned Parenthood does...
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 07:00 PM
Jul 2015

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)
8. So these right wing pigs would prefer these meat slabs to be discarded as medical waste
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 07:30 PM
Jul 2015

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)
9. Shouldnt be a problem once the law is changed.
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 09:17 PM
Jul 2015

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

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