Christians took to social media en masse after news broke July 14 that Planned Parenthood allegedly sold baby parts gained through partial birth abortions.
The social media dustup was provoked by a video released by the nonprofit medical watchdog group Center for Medical Progress (CMP) showing Planned Parenthood Federation of America executive Dr. Deborah Nucatola discussing the fetal parts business with an undercover investigator posing as a potential buyer. Planned Parenthood claimed they donate the body parts for scientific purposes and do not receive monetary benefit, but CMP countered by publishing an advertisement delivered to Planned Parenthood abortion clinics by a biomedical company stating that supplying tissue is “financially profitable.”
Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore said the “horror of this story should be shocking to the consciences of all Americans.”
More news to be released
And according to CMP, this is only the tip of the iceberg. The group’s leader, David Daleiden, said that for about two and a half years it had been investigating the sale of tissue by Planned Parenthood. “We very quietly have been on this long-term investigation,” he said.
Troy Newman, president of anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, served as a consultant on the investigation and said the group has “thousands upon thousands of hours of video and notes” and plans to release more over the coming weeks.
And, Newman said, anti-abortion activists are still “embedded” at Planned Parenthood to feed CMP information, according to the Boston Herald.
‘Chilling’ response
But Planned Parenthood says allowing women to “donate fetal tissue for lifesaving scientific research” shouldn’t be “attacked and demeaned” and that the money discussed on the video had to do with transporting the tissue. The claims will eventually be “discredited” and “fall apart,” a spokesman said.
But Moore called their response to the video “as chilling as it is unconvincing.”
“Let’s be clear about what is going on, it is not only that infants, in their mother’s wombs, are deprived of their lives, but also that their corpses are desecrated for profit,” Moore said. “This is not only murderous; it is murderous in the most ghoulish way imaginable.”
Moore called the situation an “atrocity” and said the government should investigate.
On July 15, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and a group of other lawmakers expressed outrage at the video and called for hearings to investigate the abortion practices of Planned Parenthood. They also called for President Barack Obama to denounce them, according to CNN.
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