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Abortion foetus video "morally barbaric", says Christian campaigner

by Desmond Busteed

Peter Williams, from Right to Life UK, responded to a video seemingly showing Dr Deborah Nucatola from Planned Parenthood talk about the sale of hearts, livers and lungs from aborted foetuses whilst eating a salad and drinking wine.

Planned Parenthood has denied allegations that it's harvesting and trafficking aborted foetuses' organs.

The video was secretly shot by actors from the Centre for Medical Progress, who call themselves "a group of citizen journalists dedicated to monitoring and reporting on medical ethics and advances."

Mr Williams also criticised the Centre for Medical Progress, for covertly obtaining footage of Dr Nucatola pretending to be other people.

He told Premier's News Hour: "What this shows essentially is this woman saying - admitting - that they can traffic in foetal organs. That's horrific, that's truly horrific. That someone would be - between bites of salad - talking about taking a baby's liver, heart, lungs, crushing the baby's body in the right place so these organs can be harvested. It's truly horrific.

"They are enabling the traffic of foetal organs, which by the way is illegal in the United States, through exactly what they're doing - they destroy unborn human beings... So to call themselves a healthcare organisation is fairly laughable.

Responding to Planned Parenthood's statement, that mothers have consented to their tissue being donated for medical research, he said: "Well to quote Romans 3:8, we can't do an evil thing that a good thing might come of it.

"If you're talking about the trafficking of human organs that can then be used to help people... what we're essentially saying is that we can do an evil thing, the destruction of human beings and commodifying them... That's morally barbaric. That's something we can't possibly agree with."

Planned Parenthood issued a statement saying: ""There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or for Planned Parenthood. In some instances, actual costs, such as the cost to transport tissue to leading research centers, are reimbursed, which is standard across the medical field.
 
"A well funded group established for the purpose of damaging Planned Parenthood's mission and services has promoted a heavily edited, secretly recorded videotape that falsely portrays Planned Parenthood's participation in tissue donation programs that support lifesaving scientific research.

"Similar false accusations have been put forth by opponents of abortion services for decades. These groups have been widely discredited and their claims fall apart on closer examination, just as they do in this case."

Listen to Premier's Des Busteed speaking to Peter Williams on the News Hour:

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