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Late Term Abortion

“You know, we’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not going to crush that part. I’m going to basically crush below, I’m going to crush above, and I’m going to see if I can get it all intact.”

With these words, Deborah Nucatola, national medical director of Planned Parenthood, made the best closing argument for legislation to end the grisly practice of late-term abortion in the United States. More than 2.6 million Americans have watched a video of this young doctor blithely dining on wine and salad while discussing how her organization selects babies for brute destruction. Every American old enough to read a biology text should see this video to understand the stakes not just for this legislation, but for the core values of our civilization.

The second video shows Dr. Mary Gatter, president of Planned Parenthood’s National Medical Council, negotiating the price of fetal parts obtained from Planned Parenthood facilities. Gatter urges her interlocutors to make an offer because, as she explains, “Well, you know in negotiations, the person who throws out the figure first is at a loss, right?” Gatter then suggests “$75 a specimen,” which can be adjusted if it proves lower than what Planned Parenthood’s California clinics fetch. The third video, with more to come, may be the most devastating yet. In it, Holly O’Donnell, an ex-procurement specialist at an organ and tissue processing corporation, describes how she passed out while being shown organs from unborn children being teased apart and tweezered in a laboratory dish. Read More

Source: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Marjorie Dannenfelser , http://www.desmoinesregister.com