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CBN.comPlanned Parenthood asked a federal judge Tuesday to stop Louisiana from ending Medicaid payments to the organization's clinics.
Louisiana's decision comes in the wake of undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress that exposed Planned Parenthood's practice of selling baby body parts for a profit.
Gov. Bobby Jindal announced the funding cutoff for the group's Baton Rouge and New Orleans health centers earlier this month.
The latest video features Cate Dyer, CEO of StemExpress, a fetal tissue procurement company that previously partnered with Planned Parenthood.
The footage raises new concerns, this time about cleanliness and safety in abortion clinics.
"We've seen all sorts of things, but yeast contamination I've seen really rampant, rampant problems with bacteria in some clinics I've seen staph come out of clinics," Dyer complains in the latest undercover video.
Later on in the video she jokes with a buyer about shipping the heads of aborted unborn babies.
"I know we get requests for neural. It's the hardest thing in the world to ship," Dyer said.
"You do it as the whole calvarium?" the buyer asks.
"That's it, yeah, that's the easiest way," Dyer replied. "And I mean we've actually had good success with that in the past."
"Yeah, make sure the eyes are closed!" the buyer says.
When the buyer asks Dyer what would make her happy, she asked for more livers, saying liver tissue was in high demand.
"Another 50 livers a week," she says. "We're working with almost like triple digit number clinics and we still need more."
"Planned Parenthood has volume because they are a volume institution," she adds.
Many have defended the procurement of fetal tissue, saying it's being used in potentially life-saving medical research.
But in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, former FDA Deputy Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said research using fetal tissue is actually very uncommon.
He explained that from 1993 to 2014 only 30 grants involved fetal tissue transplant that's out of nearly 10,000 that are awarded every year. Instead researchers use fetal tissue as a source of stem cells. And even that, he says, is unnecessary.
That revelation could be another flash point in the upcoming battle in Congress over cutting off taxpayer dollars for Planned Parenthood.
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