[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 157 (Tuesday, November 9, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11708]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    SELLING ABORTED BABY PARTS, WHAT HAS THE UNITED STATES COME TO?

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Ose). Under the Speaker's announced 
policy of January 19, 1999, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) 
is recognized during morning hour debates for 2 minutes.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 
350, a resolution which addresses the horrible practice developing in 
America of trafficking in baby body parts for monetary reimbursement. 
Abortion clinics are selling dead, unborn babies, or parts of them, to 
middlemen. These middlemen, in turn, are selling them to researchers.
  Mr. Speaker, just look at this blowup of this price list taken from 
this chilling magazine article from someone in this awful business. A 
liver, $150, but it can be gotten for $125 if it is from a younger 
baby, or one can get a 30 percent discount if it is significantly 
fragmented; a spleen, $75; pancreas, $100; a thymus, $100.
  Look at this, a brain, $999. Notice they even use marketing 
techniques in this gruesome business, selling it for $1 less than a 
thousand dollars to make it, I guess, a more attractive purchase.
  Again, if it is fragmented, what a terrible way to describe a baby's 
injured brain from abortion, one can get a 30 percent discount; almost 
like step right up, ladies and gentlemen. A baby's ear, $75; eyes, $75 
for a pair, $40 for one; skin, $100; the spinal cord, $325.
  Mr. Speaker, I wish this price list were a cruel Halloween hoax, but 
it is not. It is a price list for human body parts from aborted babies, 
in America. This is not Nazi, Germany.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this resolution calling 
for oversight hearings.

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