SNIP:
Media trying pretty hard to excuse Planned Parenthood’s selling of fetal body parts
By
Dan Calabrese -- Bio and Archives July 15, 2015
casually discussing the harvesting for sale of fetal body parts while sipping wine and nibbling on a salad. They are the gatekeepers of all information, you see, and if they don’t cover it then it isn’t news.
That didn’t work. So now that they realize they have to say something about it, they’re trying their best to cover Planned Parenthood’s behind by selling the giant abortion gin’s own talking points. They’re not selling body parts, you see. They’re just facilitating “organ donations” and getting reimbursed for their trouble.
Typical is this passage from
Robin Marty in Cosmopolitan:
But what about the allegations themselves, and the video that has
GOP presidential
candidates up in arms and demanding a congressional investigation? Well, that too is mostly a matter of clever wording, a few unsubstantiated allegations, and a reliance on the fact that to most people — myself included — medical practices are kind of gross.
Abortion opponents are calling the process a “harvesting” of “
aborted baby body parts.” In the edited video itself, the video producers insert citations for two different laws:
42 U.S. Code § 274e (prohibition of organ purchases)
and 42 U.S. Code § 289g–2 (prohibitions regarding human fetal tissue). In both cases, the laws apply to “selling” organs or tissue, not to reimbursing a medical practitioner for costs associated with the procurement and transportation of these organs and tissues. As the prohibition of organ purchases states, “The term ‘valuable consideration’ does not include the reasonable payments associated with the removal, transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, and storage of a human organ…” In other words, transportation — often very rapid transportation, as anyone who has ever watched a dramatic reenactment of an organ donation has seen — can be compensated. The “human fetal tissue” law is much the same, but also adds a caveat that no tissue or organs can be obtained from a fetus that was conceived specifically for the purpose of terminating and donating.
Considering these are products of conception coming directly from abortion clinics, that is unlikely to be a factor.
ALL of it here:
Media trying pretty hard to excuse Planned Parenthood s selling of fetal body parts