In a second undercover video released on Tuesday by the Center for Medical Progress, a top Planned Parenthood official appears to entertain the idea of “violating the protocol” which prohibits abortion doctors from altering their methods in order to obtain fetal tissue and organs donated by patients.
In the video, which is part of a three-year investigation called “Human Capital,” undercover actors posing as officials with a biotech company filmed negotiate payment for intact tissue and organs from aborted fetuses with Mary Gatter, the president of Planned Parenthood’s Medical Directors’ Council.
In the video, which was filmed in February, Gatter says that she is willing to talk to the surgeon who performs abortions to see if he’s willing to use different methods in order to keep tissue and organs intact.
Doing so would appear to violate both federal law and a consent form signed by patients.
The video follows one that the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress released last week. That one shows another Planned Parenthood official, Deborah Nucatola, discussing selling fetal parts for research purposes. While Planned Parenthood officials have apologized for the “tone” Nucatola used in that video, the organization has claimed that the Center for Medical Progress filmed her illegally.
In the video released Tuesday, the undercover actors ask Gatter “what sort of compensation” she would seek for intact tissue.
Gatter, who previously the medical director of Planned Parenthood’s Los Angeles chapter, responds, “well why don’t you start by telling what you are used to paying?”
“What would make you happy? What would work for you?” the actor asks.
“Well, you know in negotiations the person who throws out a figure first is at a loss, right?” Gatter responds.
“I just don’t want to lowball, because I’m used to low things from …” Gatter begins, before the actor coaxes her to give a specific dollar amount.
“$75 a specimen,” Gatter says.
