FRANKLIN GRAHAM LAUNCHES INTO HARRY REID
'One day you will stand before God'
Rev. Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham, chief of Samaritan’s Purse and head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has sounded off on his opposition to abortion before, but now he’s shaming members of the U.S. Senate who this week voted to continue funding Planned Parenthood even though videos have surfaced revealing its executives talking about the prices of the body parts of the unborn.
Including Tuesday’s video where one executive was discussing “intact fetal cadavers,” a term that strongly suggests infants are born alive and then killed.
Graham on Wednesday criticized Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., for having lost his “moral compass.”
“Senator Harry Reid outrageously declared yesterday that Republicans had ‘lost their moral compass’ after they were unable to get the 60 votes needed to move the bill in Congress forward that would defund Planned Parenthood,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
“You’ve got it backwards Senator Reid. You lost your moral compass years ago! You openly support abortion – the murder of babies in their mothers’ wombs – and now by backing Planned Parenthood you obviously support the dismemberment and sale of baby body parts.”
Graham’s verdict?
“Shame on you and each one in Congress who did not support defunding Planned Parenthood. One day you will stand before God, and the blood of these innocent children will cry out for justice,” he wrote.
CNS had reported that Reid cast the debate in terms of protecting women “from the absurd policies of a Republican Party that’s lost its moral compass.”
But even those on the far progressive end of the political spectrum have been left aghast at the videos showing one Planned Parenthood executive after another coldly talking about prices of the various body parts.
One executive said, “I want a Lamborghini.”
Another described those “intact fetal cadavers” as just “a line item” in a budget.
WND reported Jill Stanek, of the Susan B. Anthony List, said the latest revelations make it appear like abortion providers are delivering babies alive and then killing them to preserve the value of their parts for sale.
She cited the most recent video from the Center for Medical Progress, which made public its fifth in a series of undercover videos.
This one prominently featured conversations with Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. Farrell and the investigators hold lengthy discussions about obtaining intact fetus cadavers for research and how to word the transaction on any forms.
“If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. It’s all just a matter of line items,” says Farrell in the video.
She also refers to creative billing for research firms for “additional time, cost (and) administrative burden.”
“This is the clearest video to date demonstrating that not only is Planned Parenthood involved in illegal baby parts trafficking for profit but also, to do that, they clearly often manipulate abortions, which is also illegal, to get baby parts in the most intact position that they can get them,” Stanek said.
Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Jill Stanek:
WND has reported that under federal law, it's illegal to buy or sell body parts of the unborn.
Troy Newman, of the abortion-fighting Operation Rescue and who is on the board for CMP, said, "The admission that Planned Parenthood abortionists manipulate procedures in order to better harvest organs or even intact late-term fetal cadavers for human experimentation purposes conjures images of H.G. Wells' Dr. Moreau. It is all clearly illegal.
"Are ethical standards adhered to during these private experiments? Given Planned Parenthood's propensity for unethical, above-the-law arrogance, it is doubtful."
See video No. 5:
CMP spokesman David Daleiden said, "This is now the fifth member of Planned Parenthood leadership discussing payments for aborted baby parts without any connection to actual costs of so-called tissue 'donation.' Planned Parenthood's system-wide conspiracy to evade the law and make money off of aborted fetal tissue is now undeniable."
He continued, "Anyone who watches these videos knows that Planned Parenthood is engaged in barbaric practices and human rights abuses that must end. There is no reason for an organization that uses illegal abortion methods to sell baby parts and commit such atrocities against humanity to still receive over $500 million each year from taxpayers."
To date, the video investigation has resulted in at least eight states beginning investigations of Planned Parenthood. Several congressional committees are doing the same, and on Monday the Senate narrowly failed to approve a ban on federal money for Planned Parenthood, which promises to keep the fight looming in Washington.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said the videos were just too much.
"I am very troubled by the callous behavior of Planned Parenthood staff in (the) recently released videos," he explained, "which casually discuss the sale, possibly for profit, of fetal tissue after an abortion. Until these allegations have been answered and resolved, I do not believe that taxpayer money should be used to fund this organization."
See the earlier videos. No. 4:
No. 2:
No. 1:
An old story
WND also has reported that as horrific as the videos appear, they should surprise no one, since such practices have been documented for nearly two decades already.
One price list uncovered by a pro-life organization dated June 1998 shows that the price per specimen from a second trimester abortion is $90 fresh and $130 frozen.
Mark Crutcher, whose Life Dynamics organization was a ground-breaker in investigating the abortion behemoth that gets some $500 million annually from U.S. taxpayers, worked on that investigation.
His group reported back in February 2000 how the baby parts market works: "A baby parts 'wholesaler' enters into a financial agreement with an abortion clinic in which the wholesaler pays a monthly 'site fee' to the clinic. For this payment, the wholesaler is allowed to place a retrieval agent inside the clinic where he or she is given access to the corpses of children killed there and a workspace to harvest their parts."
The documentation was provided at that time to Life Dynamics by a worker who left Comprehensive Health for Women, a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Overland Park, Kansas.
Among the documents was a "Fee-for-Services" Schedule A, effective June 1998, which outlined a charge of $220 per specimen for first-trimester aspiration abortions and $260 if the baby parts were frozen.
Crutcher's report, citing Planned Parenthood's own paperwork, found that one agent sold during February 1996 alone 47 livers, 11 liver fragments, seven brains, 21 eyes, eight thymuses, 23 legs, 14 pancreases, 14 lungs, six arms and one kidney-adrenal gland.
He also sold three orders of blood from the unborn child. The retrieval agent "harvested all of the parts," the report said, explaining that "in order for the blood of an aborted child to be sold, the dead baby had to be brought to him intact."
The "specimens," the report said, would have generated up to about $25,000 in revenue for one month from one retrieval agent at one Planned Parenthood business.
Crutcher reported that the tissue logs reveal that one baby is often chopped up and sold to many buyers.
For example, babies taken from donors 113968 and 114189 were both killed late in their second trimester and cut into nine pieces. By applying the price list, buyers would have been invoiced between $3,510 and $5,070 for these parts, he said.
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