The tissue trade

摘要

Even ardent advocates of a woman's right to an abortion may grow queasy from watching a series of undercover videos of meetings with representatives from Planned Parenthood, a national group that offers reproductive-health services, including abortions. In order to harvest hearts, lungs and "as many intact livers as possible" from aborted fetuses, providers use ultrasound to make sure they do not "crush that part," explains Deborah Nucatola, a medical director for the group, between sips of wine. Another shows a medical executive named Mary Gatter apparently negotiating the sale of fetal "specimens".