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This is the Device Planned Parenthood is Using to Get Body Parts From Aborted Babies to Sell
Life News ^ | July 27, 2015 | JONATHAN ABBAMONTE

Posted on 07/28/2015 9:10:51 AM PDT by NYer

A second video alleging Planned Parenthood’s gruesome selling of fetal body parts surfaced last week. And once again we find a senior executive of the organization, Dr. Mary Gatter, willing to put women’s lives at risk in order to make more money for the organization and for themselves.

As Gatter explains, “I wouldn’t object to asking Ian, who’s our surgeon who does the cases, to use an Ipas [manual vacuum aspirator] at that gestational age in order to increase the odds that he’s going to get an intact specimen.”

“Intact specimens”, you see, are worth more money. And Planned Parenthood gets them by using a device that regular readers of our PRI Review are all too familiar with: a manual vacuum aspirator.

Manual vacuum aspirators are murderous machines used to abort babies between three and fourteen weeks gestation. They are large, unsophisticated syringes operated by hand that work by suctioning the fetus from its mother’s womb. The baby’s delicate body is crushed and sliced as it is aspirated through a long cannula. After the abortion procedure, the baby parts are emptied into a bowl of water or vinegar and inspected to insure that all pieces are there and accounted for. One must wonder how a “doctor” can can justify abortion as he or she inspects baby parts floating in a pool of vinegar.

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Manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) uses less suction than electronic vacuum aspiration (VA), perfect for preserving more organs intact for harvesting. It’s for this reason Gatter refers to MVA in the video as a “less crunchy technique.”

Manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) devices are used particularly in developing countries because they can be used without electricity. Since MVA devices require little training to operate, they are often used by non-physician abortion providers. Their small price tag and portability allow them to be widely distributed in remote locales, often in areas with poor sanitation and poor healthcare.

PRI has long documented the use of MVAs in developing regions. Unsterilized reusable MVAs have likely contributed to the spread of AIDS in Africa and STIs worldwide. The painful MVA procedure is often done without anesthesia such as in the Marie Stopes clinic we documented in Kenya. MVA devices have been reported to be used up to sixteen weeks gestation under the guise of “menstrual regulation” and “post-abortive care,” the abortion advocate’s code words for first trimester abortion in countries where abortion is illegal or largely restricted.

Planned Parenthood would stand to benefit financially from switching from VAs to MVAs. Electronic vacuum aspiration equipment is far more expensive than MVA devices. Some researchers argue MVAs can be done in the doctor’s office, saving the cost of having to invest in maintaining expensive operating rooms. Alisa Goldberg, MD concludes her study comparing MVA and VA procedures by saying as much, “Whereas purchasing an electric vacuum machine requires a large initial investment, the manual aspiration equipment is inexpensive…These factors, together with the simplicity of use…could increase the number of physicians who offer abortion to their patients in an office setting.”

MVA devices are not subject to FDA approval. PRI years ago tried to have the FDA pull the MVA abortion devices off the market but the FDA would not budge. In fact, they would not even subject MVAs to the same safety standards required of all other medical devices on the market. The FDA claims the devices do not require a pre-market review because they were available prior to May 28, 1976. New iterations of MVA devices are not subject to review as long as they do not deviate too far from their original design. Even so, according to the FDA, “manufacturers are primarily responsible for determining whether changes that are made to their device require the submission of” the proper forms.

While the FDA has refused to review the device for safety, a number of adverse reports have been filed with the federal regulatory organization including a report of uterine perforation and even death.

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The lead manufacturer of MVA devices, Ipas, is not a pharmaceutical or medical device company but rather an international abortion advocacy organization. Ipas declares on its own website that it is dedicated to expanding “comprehensive abortion care.” The abortion activist organization is also actively involved in “work[ing] with nations’ ministries of health to interpret laws governing abortion in the broadest terms possible and to write standards and guidelines for abortion care accordingly to ensure access for as many women as possible.” In other words, the MVA device manufacturer is actively involved in pressuring independent nations into loosening restrictions on abortion and in finding loopholes in the law to increase access to abortion.

Ipas also advocates for non-physician procured abortions. MVA abortions procured by mid-level practitioners have higher failure rates and complication rates than MVAs procured by doctors.

PRI blew the whistle years ago on Ipas’s deceptive practice of distributing miscarriage-inducing misoprostol to women in South American countries where elective abortion is illegal. When women report to their doctors, hemorrhaging from the drug, the physician completes the abortion procedure under the guise of treatment for a spontaneous miscarriage.

Ipas claims to have distributed over 800,000 reusable manual vacuum aspirator devices worldwide. Ipas asserts that this is enough to commit 20 million abortions.

As one of Ipas’s leading donors, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) stands behind Ipas’s mission to promote abortion. In fact, Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the United States accounting for about one-third of all clinical abortions.

During its fiscal year 2013-2014, Planned Parenthood committed 327,653 abortions, roughly the equivalent of the population of St. Louis, Missouri. At this figure, Planned Parenthood aborts children at a rate of 37 every hour. PPFA’s parent organization, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), aborts over 1 million children every year worldwide.

PPFA receives approximately $500 million every year in federal and state grants and reimbursements. Half a billion tax dollars are funding the largest abortion provider in America every year.

Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Planned Parenthood’s selling of fetal body parts. A recent Rasmussen poll indicates that only 25 percent of likely voters find the practice permissible.

Planned Parenthood’s abortion business is out of touch with public sentiment. The most recent Gallup poll on late term abortion indicates that 64 percent of Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in the second trimester and 80 percent believe it should be illegal in the third trimester. Many Planned Parenthood clinics provide abortions after the first trimester.

Last Tuesday, Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) introduced the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 which strips all federal funding to Planned Parenthood. The bill has already garnered 137 cosponsors. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has since introduced a similar bill in the Senate.

Americans should not be forced to subsidize an organization that sells fetal body parts for profit and procures late term abortions. An abortion giant like Planned Parenthood does not need our taxpayer dollars.

Dr. Gatter can be seen at the end of the video bartering for maximum profit while settling on a price that doesn’t look suspicious. “Let me just figure out what others are getting, and if this is in the ballpark,” Gatter says, “if it’s still low, then we can bump it up. I want a Lamborghini.”

LifeNews Note: Jonathan Abbamonte writes for the Population Research Institute.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: abortion; fetalbabyparts; ipas; mva; plannedparenthood; vacuumtechnique
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1 posted on 07/28/2015 9:10:51 AM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
FYI, ping!

NOTE - This article appeared the day before the 3rd video was released.

2 posted on 07/28/2015 9:11:45 AM PDT by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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A dead baby is a terrible thing to waste.


3 posted on 07/28/2015 9:12:13 AM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: NYer

The innocent. It’s so sickening. It’s going to get worse if it’s not stopped.


4 posted on 07/28/2015 9:13:52 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: NYer

Planned Parenthood is nothing but a ‘butcher shop’ and the people involved in this group, whether it be the people doing the ‘butchering’ or the ‘selling’ or taking money from them or giving money to them are nothing but ‘butchers’ themselves....


5 posted on 07/28/2015 9:14:37 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: NYer

Rush talking about this now.
Planned Parenthood locations should burn over this.

Not that I’m “threatening” to do it, just that they SHOULD.


6 posted on 07/28/2015 9:15:03 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: NYer

Did any of the mothers who donated their flesh and blood receive bonus compensation from planned parent for providing mature salable body parts to PP? Or, were any of the mothers encouraged to by PP to extend their pregnancies in order to produce more marketable parts? Do the mothers have the right to claim additional fees from Planned Parenthood for their contribution to this for profit activity?

We should be hearing from the mothers soon. Maybe a class action suit is in the future for Planned Parenthood.


7 posted on 07/28/2015 9:16:28 AM PDT by joemsewi
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To: NYer

8 posted on 07/28/2015 9:16:33 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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"Or, were any of the mothers encouraged to by PP to extend their pregnancies in order to produce more marketable parts? "

Now there's a question!

9 posted on 07/28/2015 9:19:47 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: NYer

All... If you are a Facebook user, please post this article and ask your friends directly the following: “If you are a Democrat Party voter, please explain your vote for and approval of hundreds of millions of dollars to fund this.”


10 posted on 07/28/2015 9:19:59 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: MrB

We should be surrounding their buildings and daring them to come out.

And yes, that should be a threat.


11 posted on 07/28/2015 9:20:04 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: MrB

Just give them a polite phone call and ask how much they plan to make on baby parts today.


12 posted on 07/28/2015 9:20:13 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: NYer

I spoke with a doctor about this recently.

He is very successful, publishes, travels extensively to teach Med students, etc.

His response was: “I don’t need to see this. It’s Republican tricks to try and destroy a woman’s right to choose - not worth my time.”

When I asked him if he had seen the evidence he said:

“I don’t need to see that right wing crap.”


13 posted on 07/28/2015 9:21:07 AM PDT by golux
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To: NYer
With the 3rd video released it is unacceptable that a bill is not being voted on to ‪#‎DEFUNDPLANNEDPARENTHOOD‬ so I am asking everyone to call Mitch McConnells office in Louisville, KY Phone: (502) 582-6304 or his DC office (which is having high call volumes and your call will most likely be disconnected as mine was) at (202) 224-2541
14 posted on 07/28/2015 9:21:53 AM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: NYer

Abortion advocacy is not, and has never been, about the rights of women. It has always been about profit for those who are too inhuman to understand concepts like “empathy” and “compassion.”

The capacity of humans to commit evil is astounding. I cannot wrap my mind around it, even while observing it.


15 posted on 07/28/2015 9:24:29 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: garjog

They say the fetus is dead, but now they say the parts are alive.

Can we figure this one out?


16 posted on 07/28/2015 9:24:39 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Covenantor

Progress (/s)

17 posted on 07/28/2015 9:26:23 AM PDT by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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To: NYer

Soon they’ll be making lamp shades from the parts they can’t sell for research.


18 posted on 07/28/2015 9:27:09 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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Having no fear of the righteous Almighty who will avenge the brutal deaths of the baby innocents is a dangerous place to be. Some choose hell and will indeed be rewarded with it.


19 posted on 07/28/2015 9:34:07 AM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: MrB
TIME TO CALL IN THE EXPERTS


20 posted on 07/28/2015 9:35:02 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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