Is a joke about a Lamborghini cause to abolish abortions?
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Amidst the furor that has boiled to the surface after the release of its first abortion “sting” video, the Center for Medical Progress has followed up with another tape in which a Planned Parenthood official allegedly attempts to sell infant body parts to actors posing as entrepreneurs from a startup biotech firm.
The video features Mary Gatter, who is president of the group’s medical director council, engaging in a conversation with the Center for Medical Progress’ actors, who posed as representatives of a firm that handles fetal tissue donations.
“Let me just figure out what others are getting,†the woman tells the actors, according to the Center for Medical Progress, “and if this is in the ballpark, then it’s fine, if it’s still low, then we can bump it up. I want a Lamborghini,†she said, immediately indicating that she was joking, according to Politico.
She also says that the clinics do not donate the tissue to make money. The full, unedited conversation has not been released.
“This morning, another very heavily edited video was released by activists who have been widely discredited and who edited a video last week to twist its meaning completely and support false claims,†said Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “What we see on this tape is a woman who says ‘we’re not in it for the money,’ and that any money must be related to reimbursement for costs.â€
For the initial pseudo-sting, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s senior director of medical services Dr. Deborah Nucatola was secretly filmed during a conversation with a pair posing as executives from an imaginary human biologics company seeking sources of fetal tissue for medical research.
The nearly three-hour conversation was condensed into an eight-minute video that was then released by the Center for Medical Progress. It was edited to make Nucatola, and Planned Parenthood, look like profit-mongering human-parts trafficker, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Ferrero said group behind the videos consists of “extremists who have intimidated women and doctors for years in their agenda to ban abortion completely.â€