Ichthus, your source is an organization that lies to push its political agenda – whatever else their videos show, they show that.
Take this video:
First, the title: “Planned Parenthood Headquarters Seeks $1,500 “Financial Incentive” Per Aborted Fetal Liver”
Planned Parenthood didn’t seek a financial incentive, they were offered one by the organization making this video. Nor did Planned Parenthood accept the financial incentive they were offered, the doctor said she would talk to the people who would approve that, i.e. not her; she’s there looking for “someone to take it”. And taking payment from people who do that is not illegal: like the law I cited above, the law they cite on this point expressly permits “reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue.”
Next, let’s do the math on the numbers the doctor provides, just to sanity check.
She describes three locations, one which does 50 abortions per day during the week and 75-100 on Saturday (call it an average of 87.5), and at 2 other locations they do 25/day. Assuming that means the clinics are closed on Monday or Sunday, and that they do this 52 weeks a year, that’s 27950 abortions per year, 14950 at the Manhattan location and 13000 at the other two together.
She says that the Manhattan location does abortions up to 24 weeks, with 10-20% of abortions past 13 weeks. The other two locations only do “first tri”, i.e. less than 13 weeks. Taking 10% of the Manhattan location, we get 1495 per year past 13 weeks, and that comes to 5.3% of the total abortions performed by all three locations. 20% would be twice that, 10.6%. So roughly 5-10% of all abortions they perform are past 13 weeks.
That fits pretty well with the CDC information I provided above, which had 92.7% of abortions less than 13 weeks. That should support our credence in both sources, because the numbers were reported for different reasons and in different contexts, and represent different samples, but they agree pretty well. If instead clinics downplayed their numbers when reporting to the CDC, or this doctor were inflating her numbers to pitch a customer, there would be a mismatch.
And we see that reinforced later when the doctor is asked if they can change their practice to produce better fetal tissues, to which she replies that no, they do what’s safest, that they won’t encourage more intact abortions, but they do them when it’s “less traumatic for the patient”.
In response to this, the video highlights “intact D&E” and claims it’s illegal. This again misrepresents the law, and ironically undermines a claim you made in a separate post, that babies are not killed to keep the organs “fresh”. In fact, the law cited in the video, 18 USC 1531, makes it a crime to kill the baby by any overt act other than delivering the baby (paragraph (b)(1)(B)).
So the video provides evidence that that Planned Parenthood performs legal abortions and provides fetal tissues from those abortions to researchers, which Planned Parenthood has never denied; that they accurately and consistently report their numbers; that they won’t change their procedures at the request of researchers to produce specific kinds of tissues; that the doctors know that researchers pay for the fetal tissues (which they are allowed to do to cover costs) but aren’t the ones who make those decisions.
None of that sounds “Mengele-level” to me, and it seems like it’s the abortion itself that you most object to.
Also keep in mind this is a selectively edited video, which shows someone lying to a doctor to get her to say things that sound bad. This is the most damning video they could make. And it’s just not damning.