Report: Planned Parenthood Caught Selling ‘Viable’ Fetuses To University Of California San Diego

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Posted on 11/23/2024 1:36:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Planned Parenthood has been providing “viable nonanomalous” babies killed in “elective abortions” to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for experimentation, according to a new report.

Published by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the emails detail a “Research Plan” that documents the harvesting of babies for experimentation on their bodies. The plan was submitted to and approved by UCSD’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) in 2018. The heavily redacted communications were obtained by the group via open records request.

According to the records reported by CMP, researchers unveiled plans in their submission to “collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego.” The researchers further noted that patients with “viable nonanomalous … fetuses” would partake in the analysis.

Planned Parenthood will gather “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilation and evacuation procedure,” the submitted plan reads. The abortion provider aimed to harvest babies from “up to 2,500 patients,” according to the plan.

As noted by CMP, the “majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care.”

The investigative nonprofit highlighted one 2018 email indicating Planned Parenthood’s overuse of misoprostol (Cytotec) on patients hours before harvesting the viable babies for their body parts. According to CMP, the drug is often “used in chemical abortions to force-start labor contractions.”

In a partially redacted 2018 email regarding the Research Plan, an unidentified individual working on the study wrote, “[A]ny sample greater than about 12.5w[eeks] requires the use of a dilating medication which is given to the patients 3 hours ahead of their procedure (these are called ‘cyto’ patients).”

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