A couple days ago, a video was posted by the Center for Medical Progress claiming Planned Parenthood admitted to selling fetal body parts. The law says they can be donated for medical studies, but not sold for profit. Now, here's the hitch: Reasonable payments can be made for such things as transportation, quality control and storage.
The video shows a Planned Parenthood official saying the body parts can go for $30 to $100. As the story broke, Planned Parenthood said that is all the money goes for.
Snopes has already posted on the issue, classifying whether Planned Parenthood is involved in illegal activity as "Undetermined."
My thought? I'm thinking $30 to $100 is too much to be considered a reasonable amount for such things as implantation (whatever that refers to), transportation, and preservation of the parts, If the pay is $30 to $100, there seems to be room for profit, which is against the law.
Planned Parenthood also is being accused of performing partial-birth abortions, which have been illegal since 2003. (In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this law.) While it is time for me to go to bed without too much review of partial-birth abortions, they are late-term abortions in which, I believe the manner of pulling the body apart, or piercing it, or such was determined to be too cruel to the unborn, but I am not certain that is why partial-birth abortions are illegal.
For my part, I am grateful for the 2003 law against partial births. And, I believe reports of violations should be investigated and prosecuted as much even as we investigate and prosecute other crimes.
On both matters -- whether Planned Parenthood is profiting on the body parts, and whether it is performing partial birth abortions -- I have not read whether the federal government has been called to investigate. Why not?
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