The transcript accompanying the latest undercover Planned Parenthood video has an employee of the group admitting that she thinks it’s “fun” to dissect fetuses for their organs and would “enjoy” the opportunity to do it on behalf of fetal tissue purchasers.
The exchange isn’t included in the 15-minute edited video released Tuesday by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) but is instead buried deep in the 119-page transcript accompanying it (a full-footage version of the video hasn’t been released yet). In the exchange, Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, admits she and her co-worker would find it enjoyable if a tissue buyer wanted them to dissect dead fetuses for parts.
It would be exciting too if you needed it dissected, because LaShonda and I are the most Curious George of the group. I know it’s sickening on some level, but it’s fun.
The undercover investigator from CMP, posing as a prospective buyer of fetal tissue, responds “Now, let’s think about it.” Farrell then continues: ”No, it’s just that those of us who are into medicine and nursing, things that other people find gross, we enjoy. Obviously.”
While Farrell may enjoy dissecting fetal remains, she admitted there is one thing she finds gross: nasal discharges.
“Except for snot,” she says. “That’s my— I can’t do it, I could never be a respiratory therapist, I could never, that’s why I have one child. I can’t do it, anything that comes out of the body from here down, I’m fine. I can hold the bucket if you’re throwing up but please don’t sneeze on me.”
The video was allegedly filmed last April at a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas. The discussion of dissection appears to have come up because much of the interview dealt with what procedures and expenses would be necessary for CMP’s fictional tissue purchaser to obtain a fully intact aborted fetus (as opposed to the dismembered one created by most second-trimester abortions).
This report, by Blake Neff, was cross-posted by arrangement with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
