The House Select Investigation Panel says it has uncovered hidden secrets in its investigation of allegations that Planned Parenthood is selling body parts from aborted babies.
The American public was shocked by the release of horrific undercover footage showing abortion industry leaders discussing the dissection and sale of baby body parts.
In response, the House established an investigative panel to get to the bottom of the allegations. The panel held a hearing Thursday to share the disturbing details they have uncovered so far.
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"We were tasked with investigating what appears to be a business enterprise -- the selling of baby body parts," Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said at the meeting.
"Documentation shows abortion clinics and middlemen who are exploiting women and selling baby body parts as part of a business plan to make more money," she added.
The panel explained in detail how a pregnant woman becomes a walking transaction as soon as she walks through the doors of an abortion clinic.
"When a woman comes in for an abortion, unbeknownst to her, there's this industry going on in the back room," said Missouri Rep. Vicky Hartzler.
As the woman waits in the clinic lobby, "someone on the other end is sitting at their computer and ordering the baby parts," she continued. "That comes in, is printed out, and the procurement technician prints it out. Then we found that they go to the medical room."
There, the panel said, a technician pulls the woman's file to compare the gestation age and sex of the soon to be aborted baby with the organ order.
If the baby is a good "match" the technician asks the woman to sign a consent form to donate her baby's body, or what abortion clinics call the "product of conception," to medical research.
After the woman signs the agreement and has her abortion, the technician "takes the baby body parts and separates them out to match her order and ships them off," Hartzler said.
"This organization claims to be for women's health, but we are proving the sad reality that they are not for women's health. They are for profit and I believe the women of America deserve to know this."
The panel will continue to investigate the truth of the abortion industry, and plans to release a final report by the end of this year.
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