





If We Do Not Repent (#PPSellsBabyParts)


Sales get negotiated. Reimbursements? Not so much. #PPSellsBabyParts

You’ve probably seen the second undercover video of a senior Planned Parenthood executive haggling over the price of aborted baby parts (if you haven’t, scroll down). Word is there are more such videos yet to be made public. In the second video, Dr. Mary Gatter, President of Planned Parenthood’s Medical Directors Council, is seen negotiating the price of pieces from aborted babies. During the conversation Gatter suggests $75 as an appropriate price for organs. The actor posing as a buyer responds that she would expect to pay $100. Not sure why this didn’t tip Gatter off to something strange. How often does a buyer raise the asking price? Gatter must have been blinded by greed because she went for it and at the end of the conversation even suggested that, if $100 is too low, they could always bump it up. After all, as she said, “I want a Lamborghini.” 
Here’s the point. Planned Parenthood can say that this is about reimbursements all they want. But reimbursements happen when you get paid back for the actual and documented costs of whatever it is you are doing, which, of course, means that reimbursements are non-negotiable. If you want to be reimbursed, you present the receipts or vouchers that show your costs, then you get paid for those exact numbers. No bartering involved. What Dr. Gatter says in the video is different because it sounds like she is trying to find the market price for baby livers. She’s haggling. And when haggling comes into the picture, it sounds a lot like a sale is being negotiated, which is why so many of us don’t believe it when Cecile Richards tells us that Planned Parenthood is not profiting from the sale of organs from aborted babies. But who can blame them? Everyone knows a Lamborghini costs an arm and a leg.

An Open Letter to @UnitedWay #UnitedWayHelpsPP #PPSellsBabyParts





Thank you for your attention to these all-important questions. 


Matt O’Reilly


Why is @StemExpress a Legal Company? #PPSellsBabyParts @EdStetzer

Before last week, I had never heard of a company called StemExpress. But with the revelation that Planned Parenthood sells the organs of aborted preborn babies, more of us know about this company that acquires parts from the victims of abortion, processes those parts in their lab, and then sells them on their website. Here’s how they describe what they do:




So, here’s my question. And let me emphasize that this is a legitimate question. If StemExpress transfers fetal cells for profit, why are they allowed to do business as a legal company in the United States? What’s the loophole? Is it because the livers are “donated” and then processed in such a way that they are not considered “fetal tissue” before they are sold? Are the fetal cells from fetal tissue not themselves legally considered fetal tissue? If not, how many cells does it take to come up with something that can be considered tissue? And if company employees are paid wages and bonuses (i.e., “valuable consideration”) for transferring the livers, heads, and hearts of aborted babies from Planned Parenthood to StemExpress, why are they not prosecuted under the law? I guess you can get paid “valuable consideration” to traffic preborn baby organs as long as you don’t take “valuable consideration” in exchange for those same organs. Yep, that makes sense. Wait…what? 
Image credit: Ed Stetzer

Animal Rights vs. Human Rights: An Unfortunate Juxtaposition #PPSellsBabyParts

I came across an article last night reporting on a letter from Brad Pitt to the CEO of Costco calling upon the company to stop selling eggs from caged hens. Pitt articulated his deep concern about the horror of keeping chickens in small cages for the duration of their lives, and he expressed his disappointment that Costco was a party to such cruelty to animals. I wouldn’t have taken the time to write a post about such a letter had it not been reported only days after the videotaped release of a senior Planned Parenthood official callously discussing the way her company sells the body parts of aborted babies to companies like StemExpress. Consider these contrasts between excerpts from Pitt’s letter and the sorts of things that happen in abortion:

“In these cruel cages, the animals’ muscles and bones atrophy from years of immobilization” (Pitt)

In the cruel hands of the abortionists, the muscles and bones of preborn human beings are ripped from their bodies and crushed by the cold sharp teeth of the physician’s forceps.

“As you know, these birds producing eggs for your shelves are crammed five or more into cages that are not large enough for even one hen to spread her wings” (Pitt).

As you know, these slaughtered children produce organs to sit on the shelves of companies which then sell them for “research.” 

“In short, cramming hens into cages for their entire lives constitutes cruelty to animals, and animals deserve better” (Pitt).

In short, dismembering children so as to rob them of life constitutes cruelty to human beings, and these babies deserve better, much better.

“You’ve shown great courage and integrity on a range of issues. Won’t you please extend that sensibility—and basic decency—to chickens?” (Pitt).

Won’t you please extend that sensibility – and basic decency – to preborn human beings? Won’t you?

Now don’t think I’m advocating cruelty to animals. I’ve seen Food, Inc., and I eat eggs from humanely raised birds. However, when we expend more energy fighting for the rights of chickens than we do the preborn, then our priorities are very, very out of order. Our culture and our sensibilities are backwards. Our ethics are inverted. So, eat your cage free eggs, but be sure that you spend far more time fighting for the rights of the most vulnerable people in our society, the preborn. 

Does the Devil Blush? 5 Points on the #PlannedParenthood Video

You’ve probably seen the widely shared video of a Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Senior Medical Director at Planned Parenthood, nonchalantly discussing the way Planned Parenthood traffics the body parts of aborted preborn babies. If you haven’t seen it, stop reading, scroll to the bottom of this post, and watch it. Then come back and finish reading. I’ve included both edited and full versions. In response, Planned Parenthood has defended themselves saying that (1) they are only being “reimbursed” for specimens donated for scientific research, and (2) the group that recorded Dr. Nucatola is really a dastardly and dishonest and you shouldn’t believe them. Most people who see the video are horrified, as well they should be, as was I. So, here are five points characteristic of what’s been rolling around my head since first seeing the video.

  1. It’s worse than we thought. Let’s begin with a reminder that selling preborn baby bodies is not the worst thing that Planned Parenthood does. The worst thing they do is kill preborn babies. That is their greater sin, and that is bad enough. This week we learned that it is not their only sin. They also turn around and exchange the organs and extremities of aborted babies for money, which means it’s worse than we had previously known. So, let’s be disgusted at what we’ve seen, but let’s remember to keep perspective and not lose sight of the bigger issue. It’s wrong to kill babies.
  2. You should be outraged, but not surprised. We should be horrified by the practice and the attitude of the power players at Planned Parenthood. What we should not be is surprised. These are the folks who make their living by ripping the arms and legs off the most vulnerable and defenseless people on the face of the planet. That their consciences are so seared as to be unbothered by the thought of selling the bits and pieces they’ve sliced, diced, hacked, and whacked is not much of a stretch. After all, they are in the business to make money, and they’ve found a way to make more of it. So, be angry. Be frustrated. Be horrified. Be furious. Be disgusted. But don’t be surprised. Don’t even begin to be surprised.
  3. Please pass the dressing. The cavalier attitude with which Dr. Nucatola discussed the harvesting and pricing of preborn baby bodies is stunningly reprehensible, not to mention alarmingly reproachable. What’s that? How much is a head? That’ll cost you $30. Lungs? Let’s call it $50. If you want an intact heart, it’ll run you a little more. Please pass the dressing. Oh, and how ’bout one more glass of Merlot. Callousness like that is enough to make the Devil blush, just before swelling with pride at the success of his merchants of death.
  4. Let’s talk dollars. As indicated above, Planned Parenthood insists they are not making money off these preborn baby organs. They are simply being “reimbursed” for the shipping and handling costs incurred in the delivery of “tissue” donated for “research.” My first thought upon reading their response was simply: how stupid do they think we are? Even if they post a loss or break even, they are still exchanging the pieces of infant corpses for cash. Make no mistake. They tinker with language in order to sanitize their sins, desensitize our consciences, and deflate our indignation. Don’t fall prey to their Newspeak. Watch the video. They have “buyer(s)” whose demand they supply. There is a price range in which dollar amounts are set per “specimen”. A menu is available. They are in the business of sales. 
  5. The idols of our age. I’ve long said that abortion is the child sacrifice demanded by the false gods of convenience and sex without consequence. This episode has allowed us to see that the pantheon is more crowded than we realized. There’s another idol demanding not only allegiance but the lives of our children. This one has been around for a long time; that presence just became a little easier to perceive. What is its name? You can call it mammon. This new information is surprisingly beneficial, however, because if you want to tear down the high places, you need to know where they are.