The Center for Medical Progress released on Tuesday a new undercover video alleging Planned Parenthood used “accounting gimmicks” to conceal evidence of profit from the sale of aborted fetal body parts.
The video’s release comes shortly before David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, will present himself before a Texas judge on Thursday morning.
“Planned Parenthood’s self-interested political maneuvers will never silence free speech or the citizen press,” Daleiden said in a statement. “The new video released today shows that no amount of half-baked barratry can conceal Planned Parenthood’s barbaric harvesting and profiting off baby body parts.”
In the new video released by the pro-life group, Melissa Farrell, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s director of research, said that “we get requests a lot for fetal tissue.”
“We had two levels of invoicing for them,” Farrell said. “We had it worded as ‘per consent,’ because the consent process was the administrative part that we had to do. Then we had an overall ‘administrative fee’ for basically working it into um, the clinics themselves. And at the time, ‘per consent’ was 25 dollars.”
In a separate clip, when asked by the filmmakers about “renumeration,” Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast CEO Melaney Linton said that Farrell will “work on all of that with you.”
The Center for Medical Progress recently released coinciding financial documents that they say “demonstrate an illegal scheme” by Planned Parenthood to profit from the sale of aborted fetal body parts.
A scene from "Planned Parenthood Houston Admits Accounting Gimmicks Hide Baby Parts Sales, Invoices Charge $8,000." Image source: The Center for Medical Progress
A scene from “Planned Parenthood Houston Admits Accounting Gimmicks Hide Baby Parts Sales, Invoices Charge $8,000.” Image source: The Center for Medical Progress
A Harris County grand jury recently indicted Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for their roles in the release of undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives.