Planned Parenthoods stomach-churning emailsnegotiatingfor fetusdonationsexposed

Stomach-churning emails show Planned Parenthood negotiating terms regarding the donation of aborted fetuses for medical research.The emails discuss fetal tissue like any other commodity such as sugar or rice, nonchalantly negotiating for fetuses up to 23 weeks old from elective abortions.A heavily-redacted so-called “Research Plan” submitted to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Institutional Review Board and approved in 2018 states scientists wanted 2,500 fetuses from up to almost the sixth month of gestation for experimentation. “We will collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego,” the plan states.Although selling fetal tissue is illegal, donating it is not illegal. The contract between UCSD and Planned Parenthood appears to allow Planned Parenthood to retain “intellectual property rights relating to the” fetal tissue, although it also does not grant UCSD the independent right to “commercialize” the tissue. The fetuses were taken to Perionatal Repository at UCSD to be researched.The emails were shared with The Post by controversial pro-life activist David Daleiden and his organization, the Center for Medical Progress, who obtained them through a California state public records request.The majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care. The youngest surviving premature baby, Curtis Means, was born at 21 weeks and two days in April 2021 in Alabama.“These documents show that Planned Parenthood is supplying healthy babies who are old enough to survive outside the womb from late term abortions to the University of California’s royalty-generating experiments,” Daleiden told The Post.  “After months of pro-abortion forces and media gaslighting the public about whether late term abortions on healthy babies and healthy mothers actually happen — to see it spelled o...