Planned Parenthood selling “viable nonanomalous” fetuses to University of California, San Diego for experimentation
Newly released documents from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) have revealed that Planned Parenthood has been providing "viable nonanomalous" fetuses from elective abortions for experimentation at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
The documents, obtained through a California public records request, reveal a controversial research plan approved by UCSD's Institutional Review Board in 2018. The emails and heavily redacted records detail a study that sought to collect fetal tissue from babies between four and 23 weeks of gestational age. The study involved patients undergoing elective surgical abortions at Planned Parenthood in San Diego, with a reported goal of obtaining samples from up to 2,500 patients.
CMP noted that modern medical care could save many healthy infants born at 23 weeks.
Moreover, Planned Parenthood reportedly used excessive doses of the labor-inducing drug misoprostol, known commercially as Cytotec, hours before performing the procedures. Typical doses of misoprostol can induce labor in most cases within four hours. However, Planned Parenthood administered eight to 16 times the amount recommended for dilation and evacuation abortions. (Related: Planned Parenthood facing new allegations of illegally selling aborted baby tissue.)
Planned Parenthood and UCSD had a "Biological Materials Transfer Agreement," which designated aborted fetal tissues as "proprietary" material belonging to Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest. The contract granted UCSD access to these tissues in exchange for Planned Parenthood retaining rights to any patents or intellectual property developed from the research.
This arrangement has drawn legal scrutiny, as federal law prohibits the exchange of human fetal tissue for "valuable consideration," and violating this is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
CMP founder condemns the practices of Planned Parenthood and UCSD
David Daleiden, founder of the CMP, has condemned the practices of Planned Parenthood and UCSD.
"These documents show that Planned Parenthood is supplying healthy babies who are old enough to survive outside the womb from late-term abortions to the University of California's royalty-generating experiments," Daleiden said. "After months of pro-abortion forces and media gaslighting the public about whether late-term abortions on healthy babies and healthy mothers actually happen, to see it spelled out this explicitly in the records of a government-funded body is truly shocking [and] also extremely clarifying for the conversation on abortion our country is currently having."
Daleiden has also accused Planned Parenthood of racial discrimination, pointing to disparities in the consent forms provided to patients for the donation of pregnancy tissue from abortions. The English-language consent forms include 15 bullet points, one of which informs patients that the donated tissue may have "significant commercial value." In contrast, the Spanish-language consent forms contain only 14 bullet points, omitting this specific disclosure.
"I don't understand why Planned Parenthood and UCSD felt that Spanish-speaking mothers did not deserve to know that the body parts of their aborted children would be "commercialized," while English-speaking mothers did deserve to have this fact disclosed to them," Daleiden said. "The only explanation I can think why this discrepancy persisted for at least four years is blatant institutional racism."
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