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CONTENT–’Carly Fiorina Was Right': Group Releases Full Abortion Video
Mentioned in GOP Debate
by John Sexton 29 Sep 2015
**WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT**
The Center for Bioethical Reform, in partnership with the
Grantham collection, has released the full version of a video which became a
source of political controversy after the 2nd Republican debate.
The 13 minute long video shows the birth of what CBR
describes as a “17 1/2 week fetus.” The fetus is placed in a metal pan with a
clamp attached to its umbilical cord. A comparison demonstrates the new video
is the source of the brief segment that appeared in a video produced by the
Center for Medical Progress (CMP), a pro-life investigatory group which has
produced undercover videos critical of Planned Parenthood.
During CNN’s Republican primary debate on September 16,
Carly Fiorina challenged Hillary Clinton to watch a video clip which showed “a
fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while
someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’”
After the debate, various news outlets claimed to be unable
to locate any such video. In a post titled,
“Carly Fiorina is wrong about the Planned Parenthood tapes. I know because I
watched them,” Vox‘s Sarah Kliff said the video was “pure fiction.”
Kliff later updated her story after a link to the video in
question was provided by the Federalist‘s Mollie Hemingway.
The graphic video of a “fully formed fetus… its legs kicking”
appears in episode 3 of a
multi-part documentary produced by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). This
video shows former tissue procurement specialist Holly O’Donnell describing how
she was shown an intact fetus with a beating heart. O’Donnell says of this
moment, “I don’t know if that constitutes it’s technically dead, or it’s
alive.” O’Donnell was then asked to harvest brain tissue from the same fetus by
cutting through its face.
As O’Donnell narrates her gruesome experience, the video
shifts to 10 seconds of a fetus in a metal bowl which is still moving. The
video is clearly labeled as coming from the Grantham Collection & Center
for Bioethical Reform. It is not video of the fetus O’Donnell is describing but
was inserted by the producers to illustrate what a living fetus at this
gestation would look like.
The Examiner helpfully broke down the claims made by Carly
Fiorina as
follows:
A) Footage of a baby who survived an abortion — notably,
this baby may not have been at Planned Parenthood*, and we have no reason to
think he or she was cut up for his or her organs.
B) Abortion clinic officials saying things that could
suggest they may deliver live babies, rather than abort them, in order to
preserve the value of the body parts.
C) The first-hand account of former biotech worker Holly
O’Donnell, who described an aborted baby boy whose heart was still beating and
who was cut up for his brain.
Carly Fiorina appears to have conflated the video of the
fetus with the story being told by O’Donnell at the same time. It’s fair to say
Fiorina’s description was incorrect to the degree it treated both incidents as relating
to one fetus; however, both the brain harvesting incident and the video of a
fully formed, kicking fetus are real.
Breitbart News spoke to the source of the video, the Center
for Bioethical Reform, last week. CBR’s Gregg Cunningham said at the time,
“This is an absolutely real video of an abortion.” He added, “People always try
to claim the images and video are not real.” Cunningham explained that their
agreement with abortion clinics strictly prevents them from releasing any
information which might lead to the clinic being identified. A press release
today states, “Violating these prohibitions could subject CBR to legal
liability and jeopardize clinic access for current and future projects. We are
even obligated to delete the audio track on all of our videos.”
As for the documentary produced by the Center for Medical
Progress, Cunningham explained that he allowed his video to be used by CMP on
one condition, that it was clearly labeled so their would be no
misunderstanding about what was being shown. Cunningham says he believes CMP’s
David Daleiden lived up to that requirement: “I feel that he, in a very
intellectually honest way, indicated that this was not part of his undercover
work.” He added, “I feel that he’s being held to an unfair standard.”
Breitbart News is providing the full video released by the
Center for Bioethical Reform so viewers can verify for themselves that this is
the source of the brief clip previously seen in the CMP documentary which led
to its being described in the GOP debate. CBR released the clip early Tuesday
morning with the title “Carly
Fiorina was right.”
Warning to Readers: This video is extremely
graphic and includes the fetus being expelled from a woman’s body as well
as images of the fetus in the metal bowl. The section that appeared in the CMP
video clip can be found at about 3:40 into this clip.
Carly Fiorina was right
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