Catholic Vote: Documents Allege Planned Parenthood Sold ‘Viable’ Fetuses

Planned Parenthood provided the University of California San Diego (UCSD) with viable fetuses up to six months’ gestation from elective abortions in exchange for the “valuable consideration” of “patent” ownership and “intellectual property” rights associated with experiments performed on them, allege documents released last week under a California public records request.

The pro-life Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has published a video summary of the never-before-seen documents that appear to show Planned Parenthood’s heavily redacted “research plan,” submitted to UCSD and approved in 2018.

The research plan reveals Planned Parenthood’s statement of intent:

We will collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood San Diego …Subject with both viable nonanomalous and anomalous fetuses will be consented … Unused tissue will be discarded as per usual Planned Parenthood procedure. We plan to consent and collect from up to 2,500 patients in this part of the study.

“Nonanomalous” fetuses are unborn babies who are “healthy, their mothers are healthy, and they are old enough to survive outside the womb with proper medical care,” CMP explained.

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