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Baby Parts for Sale
A batch of eyes by UPS – 30 livers by FedEx
By J. C. Willke, MD, President
The Life Issues Institute, Inc.
After fighting abortion for 30 years I thought I had
seen and heard it all, but not so. Here is a new development, a coordinated
high-tech industry functioning for the specific purpose of obtaining and selling
high-quality fetal organs for research.
Partial-Birth abortions seemed to be so horrible
that most of us wondered how such procedures could be defended. Many of us
chalked it up to the fact that the pro-abortion advocates and the abortion
industry didn't want to give one inch for fear that their whole house of cards
will fold. I, among others, felt that their resistance to forbidding this
gruesome procedure was a fear of a domino effect. If we stopped this one, then
we'd stop the next and the next and the next and they didn't want it to start.
But now we have evidence of a very clear additional reason why they want these
late-term abortions to continue. The reason is that this is the one method that
gives them intact fetal bodies from which they can obtain organs for research.
The other method of late-term abortion, D&E
(Dilatation and Evacuation), involves reaching up into the uterus and
dismembering the live baby. This delivers pieces of macerated organs that are
usually unsuitable for fetal research, transplantation etc. This may be the main
reason for their vehement defense of the practice of Partial-Birth abortion.
The story was broken recently by Life Dynamics under
the guidance of its director, Mark Crutcher. A lady came to him with a story,
which he has verified. The name of the informant cannot be revealed, as she is
still involved in the work that she has exposed. Her story is dramatically
recorded in a video just released by Life Dynamics. In it, this woman under the
pseudonym, Kelly, tells her story. Her back is to the camera and her voice is
electronically altered to prevent her identification. She worked for “an
outside source, hired with a team to go in [to late term abortion clinics] to
dissect and procure fetal tissue for high-quality sales.” Read on as Kelly
describes her macabre profession. “What we did was to have a contract with an
abortion clinic that would allow us to go there on certain days. We would get a
generated list each day to tell us what tissue researchers, pharmaceutical
companies and universities were looking for. Then we would examine the patient
charts. We would screen out the ones we didn't want.
We did not use specimens that had STDs [sexually
transmitted diseases] or fetal abnormalities. We only wanted the most perfect
specimens that we could give to the researchers.” And the age of these babies?
The victims were up to and over 30-weeks gestation. “We were looking for eyes,
livers, brains, thymuses [lymphoid tissue], cardiac blood, cord blood, blood
from the liver, even blood from the limbs.”
Only an estimated 2% of the late-term aborted babies
had abnormalities. “The rest were very healthy. 95% of the time, she was just
there to get rid of the baby.” How many of the late-term – the ones around
30 weeks – would you see? “Probably 30 or 40 babies a week.”
Kelly stated, “We would sell the tissue to private
contractors. They in turn would sell to other universities and researchers.
There was a high demand every week to buy such fetal tissues. It was shipped by
UPS, FedEx, Airborne and sometimes by special couriers. Sometimes we would take
the specimen in a box to the airport and put it on as regular cargo, to be
picked up at the destination.” And did these shipping companies know they were
transporting baby parts? “No. All they knew was that it was just human cells.
But it could be a completely intact fetus. It might be a batch of eyes, or 30 or
40 livers going out that day, or thymuses
And the leftover parts? “We would usually put this
down the garbage disposal along with the placenta and the leftover blood
material. If it was too large to go down the drain, they had a special freezer
and when they accumulated 60 or 70 fetuses in one box, it would be picked up for
incineration.”
And then the obvious question. Kelly is still
working for this company, so why did she come and tell this story to a pro-life
group? One day when she was working, “A set of twins at 24 weeks gestation was
brought to us in a pan. They were both alive. The doctor came back and said,
`Got you some good specimens, twins.' I looked at him and said, `There's
something wrong here. They are moving. I don't do this. This is not in my
contract.' I told him I would not be part of taking their lives. So he took a
bottle of sterile water and poured it in the pan until the fluid came up over
their mouths and noses, letting them drown. I left the room because I could not
watch this.” But she did go back and dissect them after they were dead. She
said, “That's when I decided it was wrong. I did not want to be there when
that happened.” And then it happened again and again. “At 16 weeks, all the
way up to sometimes even 30 weeks, and we had live births come back to us.”
And then? “Then the doctor would either break the neck or take a pair of tongs
and beat the fetus until it was dead.”
Did the abortionist ever alter the procedures to get
you the type of specimens you needed that day? Her answer was “Yes, before the
procedures they would want to see the list of what we wanted to procure. The
[abortionist] would get us the most complete, intact specimens that he could.
They would be delivered to us completely intact. Sometimes the fetus appeared to
be dead, but when we opened up the chest cavity, the heart was still beating.”
She was asked if the type of abortion procedure was intentionally altered to
deliver to you an intact specimen, even if that meant giving you a live baby?
Her answer was, “Yes, that was so we could sell better tissue, so that our
company would make more money. At the end of the year, they would give the
clinic back more money because we got good specimens.”
The Partial-Birth abortion procedure involves
inserting seaweed laminaria into the cervix. This swells up, dilating the
cervix. In 24 hours, new laminaria are inserted. This produces more swelling and
dilatation so that by the third day the baby can be extracted. During the
dilatation procedure she is sent to a nearby motel. Sometimes the laminaria
would fall out and she would go into labor and deliver the baby. And then?
“They would call the nurse, and the nurse would call the doctor who would go
to the motel room and pick up the woman and the fetus. That's when they would
call us and say, `Okay, we've got a couple of specimens here,' or `We've got one
specimen.' We would go [to the clinic] and the specimen [the baby] would be in a
bucket, sometimes alive. When we opened the chest cavity the heart would still
be beating. Sometimes we could see movement in the bucket. These babies had to
come out alive. There's no way for them to be coming out dead. They were all
alive. How they killed them is anyone's guess. My guess is that they had to kill
them in the bucket or put them in a corner
and let them die slowly.” And that was because the abortionist had seen how
strongly you reacted to seeing them killed in front of you? “That's correct.
And he did not want to repeat those instances but they kept happening anyway,
and that's how I came to call you guys [Life Dynamics].”
Finally, Kelly related how sometimes a woman,
halfway through the dilatation procedure, would change her mind and say she did
not want the abortion. In such a case they would tell her that it's too late
now. “You're going to have the abortion.” Kelly said, “All of the staff
would gather around pressuring her to have the abortion. On the second day,
they're given an IV sedation, which kind of puts them into what I call a Nyquil
nap. They're just basically drowsy, not thinking for themselves and that's
basically how they are coerced into continuing the procedure.”
Finally, in the interview, she notes that many of
the employees of the clinics were lesbians. When the mother was unconscious
these women would discuss her genitalia with degrading remarks and on occasion
even take the phone number off of her chart. Then they would “call her weeks
down the road and ask her out for a date. It was not uncommon for women or men
at the clinic to hit on these women for dates.”
Now We Know Why
Now we know one of the major reasons why the
abortion industry is fighting so intensely to prevent a ban on Partial-Birth
abortion from being enacted. It's more than not giving any ground on abortion
for any reason. It's also because selling fetal parts is a very lucrative part
of the abortion business. These mothers pay large sums of money for late-term
abortions and the abortionists in turn are given big money for these intact
organs. The model specimens have to be: the bigger - the better; the older - the
better; the more alive - the better.
The above dialogue is from a video that has been
produced by Life Dynamics. If any of our readers would like a free copy of this
interview, while quantities last, feel free to contact us and we will send you a
copy. Send your request to: Life Issues Institute, 1721 W. Galbraith Rd,
Cincinnati, OH 45239. Phone (513) 729-3600. Fax (513) 729-3636.
Reprinted with permission
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