Center for Medical
Progress Video Investigation — Planned Parenthood Abortionist: ‘Pay Attention
to Who’s in the Room’ When Verifying Signs of Life
by Dr. Susan Berry 29 Mar 2017
A new video released by Center for Medical Progress (CMP)
reveals a former Planned Parenthood abortionist allegedly discussing how she
performs elective abortions on healthy unborn babies up to 24 weeks of
pregnancy, and the situation she encounters if a baby is aborted showing some
signs of life.
Dr. DeShawn Taylor was a longtime abortion provider
at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles and was previously a medical director at
Planned Parenthood of Arizona. Taylor is introduced to the CMP undercover
journalists in the video by Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the Planned Parenthood chief
medical officer who was heard in the now famous initial CMP video
in which she was allegedly heard discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts
while eating a salad and drinking wine at lunch.
In the latest CMP video, Taylor is heard explaining
to the journalists that Nucatola trained her.
During a reception at a Planned Parenthood conference,
Taylor describes to CMP’s undercover journalists–posing as buyers from a
biomedical company–how she delivers intact fetuses during late-term abortions.
In the video, a CMP journalist indicates that intact bodies will allow for
the harvesting of organs and body parts that are more valuable for scientific
research.
At one point in the footage, the abortionist
explains the difficulties abortionists encounter when a baby comes through the
procedure with signs of life: “In Arizona, if the fetus comes out with any
signs of life, we’re supposed to transport it. To the hospital.”
When asked if there is “any standard procedure for
verifying signs of life?” Taylor responds by saying, “The key is, you need to
pay attention to who’s in the room, right?”
Taylor chuckles and says, “It’s a mess. It’s a
mess.”
She goes on to say, “Arizona is so conservative, I just
don’t even want to send a full fetus to, for cremation or any of that.”
The abortionist explains to the undercover journalists
that she performs Dilation & Evacuation (D&E), also known as dismemberment abortions, and
takes into consideration the feelings of her staff members who might be upset
at the sight of a whole baby coming out during an abortion. “Part of the issue
is, it’s not a matter of how I feel about it coming out intact,” she says, “but
I got to worry about my staff, and people’s feelings about it coming out
looking like a baby.”
She also tells the journalists that those handling
fetal death certificates in the state refer to the fetus as a “baby,”
and appears to say that she finds it “creepy” when fetal remains are
repeatedly referred to as “babies:” “We have the people who do our
paperwork for the fetal death certificates. They email us calling them
‘babies.’ Baby this, baby that, baby so-and-so. And I’m like, that’s creepy!”
Also in the footage released by CMP, the
abortionist says that using digoxin (referred to as “dig”) as a
feticidal agent makes the procedure less physically strenuous for her. “My
biceps appreciate it when the dig works,” she says. “I remember when I was
a Fellow and I was training,” she continues, “I was like, oh, I have to hit the
gym for this.”
CMP project lead David Daleiden released the
following statement about this investigation:
This footage shows a longtime Planned Parenthood abortion
doctor willing to sell baby parts for profit, use criminal abortion methods to
get more intact body parts, and even cover up infanticide. This doctor was
trained by Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, and
encouraged by her to participate in the fetal body parts market. This footage
is just a preview of the damning and incriminating admissions of Planned
Parenthood leaders on our further unreleased tapes, being censored by an
unconstitutional gag order from a federal judge in San Francisco.
In the summer of 2015, Daleiden began the release of his
video series that led to the allegations that Planned Parenthood and its
counterparts in the biotech field have participated in the sale of the body
parts of aborted babies for a profit.
Following a year of congressional investigation, the Senate Judiciary Committee
and the House Select Investigative Panel
referred Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, several of the largest Planned
Parenthood affiliates in the
country, and three of their business associates in the fetal tissue procurement
industry to the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
“The only difference between Planned Parenthood’s
barbaric abortion business, and that of the notorious Dr. Kermit Gosnell, is
that Gosnell was not so careful as to ‘pay attention to who’s in the room,’”
Daleiden says. “Elected officials must stop forcing taxpayers to subsidize
Planned Parenthood’s criminal abortion business, and the Department of Justice
must immediately open a full investigation and prosecute Planned Parenthood to
the fullest extent of the law.”
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Cecile Richards
is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and was a grant overseer
for the Turner Foundation.
Note: Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is an advocacy & nonpartisan political arm for
the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America.
Adviser for the Soros
Fund Management, and is George Soros’s
political director.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, and the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, the founder of the Soros Fund Management, Michael
Vachon is his political director, a friend of Michael Douglas, and was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
Michael Douglas is
a friend of George Soros, and a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the chairman for the Turner Foundation.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).