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Fourth Undercover Planned Parenthood video: “Here’s some organs for you, they’re all attached”

Jul 30, 2015

By Dave Andrusko

4thvideoshot  When you say you think you’d seen it all, you always run the risk of the next video from the Center for Medical Progress being even more unnerving. And that’s what happened with today’s release. I had thought that last video was about as grim as it could get. I was wrong.

For that tiny percent of the reading audience that is not aware, the CMP has now unveiled four videos in which investigators, posing as buyers of “fetal tissue” (an umbrella term that includes intact hearts and lungs and pancreas and brains), ask the kinds of questions someone who is the middleman would ask.

According to CMP, the video they released today was from Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM), “a wealthy, multi-state Planned Parenthood affiliate that does over 10,000 abortions per year.”

Others will talk about the negotiations for baby body parts. (I couldn’t help but think of 30 pieces of silver.) My focus here will be on just a handful of the statements heard on the video from Dr. Savita Ginde, who is PPRM’s Vice President and Medical Director and what you see at www.centerformedicalprogress.org/cmp/investigative-footage.

We see footage of the remains of a 11.6 week and a 12 week baby. We also learn that PPRM performs three to seven  2nd trimester abortions each Tuesday.

Near the end Dr. Ginde and a medical assistant are teasing out tiny fetal organs.  “Here’s some organs for you,” Dr. Ginde says, “they’re all attached. Here’s a stomach, kidney, heart, adrenal….”

As they pick and probe we hear comments about having located “a leg,” “a foot,” a “heart” even “eyeballs.” Calling it ghoulish does not begin to do what we see justice.

And then there is this random observation from Dr. Ginde: “It’s a baby.”

Early in the video, Dr. Ginde says, “I know I’ve seen livers, I’ve seen stomachs, I’ve seen plenty of neural [brain] tissue.  Usually you can see the whole brain usually come out.” 

  “Usually you can see the whole brain usually come out.”

  The two undercover investigators tell Dr. Ginde they are looking for intact organs. Dr. Ginde says that most of the second-trimester abortions they perform are “D&Es,” a dismemberment method that usually does not produce “intact” specimens.

But… “Sometimes, if we get, if someone delivers before we are able to see them for a procedure, then we are intact” (“we” meaning the baby’s organs).

And there are other options. Dr. Ginde says “we’d have to do a little bit of training with the providers” who are performing the D&Es “to make sure they didn’t crush . . . to see if we could do a little work with them to maybe be a little more gentle,” in order to preserve the desired organs in good condition.

A moment later she talks about establishing a “baseline of how things are being extracted now and see if we could do a little work with them to maybe be a little more gentle,” in order to preserve the desired organs in good condition.

But the worse part–at least for me–is near the end.

The undercover investigator talks about how there had been brain tissue in this 12-week baby, but it had been “blasted out” with water.

“Well you know a lot of times, especially with the 2nd tris [second trimester], we won’t even put water because it’s so big you can just put your hand in and pick up the parts,” Dr. Ginde says.

There is this slight pause. “So I don’t think it would be as war-torn.”

The “buyer” responds: “War-torn?” Then, for a second, you think he might lose it. Instead he says, quietly, “Oh dear.”

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