[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 111 (Thursday, July 16, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H5241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          PLANNED PARENTHOOD MUST ANSWER FOR ORGAN HARVESTING

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to deplore the deeply 
disturbing actions of Planned Parenthood, which has no reservations 
about using macabre tactics to harvest the lungs, livers, heads, and 
hearts of aborted babies.
  This week, a video investigation caught the organization's senior 
director of medical services eagerly promoting the harvesting of such 
body parts, purportedly for medical research. The director said she 
holds a daily huddle to determine how best to obtain them from unborn 
children scheduled for abortion. Callously discussing a menu of aborted 
body parts over lunch and red wine demonstrates a new level of 
depravity.
  Planned Parenthood's damage control fails to answer two basic 
questions: Have their affiliates done ``better than break even'' and 
profited from the sale of baby body parts? And under what medical, 
ethical, or legal code is it okay to choose a particular abortion 
method to preserve particular organs for harvesting?
  Nothing can erase what was caught on tape. Trafficking in human body 
parts is a Federal offense. Planned Parenthood receives over half a 
billion in taxpayer dollars every year.
  I am calling for a stop to their inhumane practices and support the 
renewed congressional investigation into the organization.

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