According to the latest video from the Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood employees have “donated” fetal remains to biomedical companies such as Stem Express without, or explicitly against, maternal consent. These employees, according to CMP’s whistleblower, do not want to “miss an opportunity” to collect “specimens” for eager buyers.
Two questions:
- Why is Planned Parenthood so zealous to gather “specimens” for these companies? After all, Planned Parenthood does not make a profit on these “donations,” right? So they go through the hassle — why? Their devotion to the advancement of Science?
- If the incentives for Planned Parenthood employees are so strong that those employees will blithely break the law, how difficult is it to imagine mothers demanding — to put it crudely — part of the action? After all, mothers are the first link in the fetal-remains supply chain, and women seeking abortions are disproportionately low-income — so they have, in theory, leverage and a financial incentive. Furthermore, we know that markets for body parts can be lucrative; you can earn a quick buck (or several bucks) selling sperm, blood, hair, even feces. If the economic conditions were right, why not baby parts? Again, assuming the right economic conditions, it follows that some women would make a cottage industry of it, getting pregnant so that they could sell the fetus.
About this latter scenario: Yes, it’s hypothetical (as far as I know), and, yes, it is probably far-fetched. But given what we continue to learn about Planned Parenthood and the booming baby-parts industry, it’s not that far-fetched. That’s the problem.