Planned Parenthood is big news today, as the GOP proposes defunding America’s largest abortion provider. Even so, it remains unlikely that the liberal media will report a new video shining a negative light on the abortion giant.
On Wednesday, the Center for Medial Progress (CMP) released its latest undercover video: “Planned Parenthood ‘Lamborghini’ Exec Haggles Again Over Baby Parts Prices.” CMP first made headlines in 2015, when the self-described “group of citizen journalists” released undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of aborted baby parts.
Back in 2015, Planned Parenthood senior executive Dr. Mary Gatter infamously made headlines after appearing in another CMP video where she joked about purchasing a Lamborghini by harvesting baby “specimens” and offered to abort using a “less crunchy technique.”
Wednesday’s five-minute video showed Gatter “again haggling over per-specimen pricing for livers, lungs, and brains,” according to a CMP press release.
At a “high-level” Planned Parenthood conference, Gatter told a CMP undercover investigator (posing as a buyer) that she performed “only 20 cases” of abortion per week, which she called “not a big volume.”
“What kind of volume do you need and what gestational ages?” she asked before admitting, “I did it in LA, I’m committed to it, I think it’s a great idea.”
When the CMP representative brought up “compensation” “per specimen,” Gatter asked, “like $75 per specimen” or “$50 a specimen?”
Gatter found $50 on the “low end”, even though the customer would send its own technician to the clinics to harvest baby parts and would, in Gatter’s words, “have to pay a little money to use the space.”
“$50 is like 12 years ago,” she said.
The video ended with the message, “Tell President Trump to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for their illegal sale of baby body parts.”
According to CMP, Gatter served as medical director of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles before accepting the same position at the Pasadena affiliate. She later became president of Planned Parenthood’s Medical Directors’ Council. While at her first position at PPLA, Gatter “oversaw the affiliate’s partnership with Novogenix Laboratories, LLC, a local for-profit fetal organ and tissue harvesting company.”
This video follows a CMP video released in March showing a Planned Parenthood doctor claiming that the care of babies born alive depends on “who's in the room.” The broadcast networks refused to cover it – even while they spun 15 criminal charges filed against the CMP executives by California.
In the accompanying press release, CMP project lead David Daleiden issued the following statement:
“The fact that Novogenix, StemExpress, and ABR stationed their own workers inside Planned Parenthood abortion clinics to perform the harvesting, packaging, and transport of aborted baby body parts demonstrates that Planned Parenthood had no reimbursable costs under the law. The volume-based sums that Planned Parenthood charged these businesses for baby parts are criminal trafficking and profiteering in fetal body parts. The U.S. Department of Justice should take heed of the Congressional investigations’ criminal referrals and prosecute Planned Parenthood to the full extent of the law, and taxpayers must stop being forced to subsidize Planned Parenthood’s criminal abortion empire.”
Network History on CMP Video Coverage
Hundreds of media outlets, including the networks, boast a long, friendly history with Planned Parenthood.
Two months after the first video’s release, MRC Culture found that ABC, NBC and CBS had aired a mere 0.13% of the CMP footage during their news shows – or 1 minute, 13 seconds of more than 16 hours.
And in early October 2015, MRC Culture discovered that the networks spent more time combined airing Cecile Richards’ defense of Planned Parenthood during a congressional hearing than showing the actual videos themselves.
From the beginning, liberal media news outlets raced to defend Planned Parenthood. In the first 9 hours and 30 minutes of news shows broadcast after the story broke, ABC, NBC and CBS, spent only 39 seconds on the first video. It took more than 24 hours before all three covered the story. In the week after the first video, the networks gave a mere 9 minutes and 11 seconds to the story (in contrast, the nets devoted more than three times that to the Susan G. Komen controversy, when the charity temporarily decided to defund the abortion giant).
ABC, NBC and CBS prioritized animals over aborted babies, by covering the shooting of Cecil the lion more in one day than they did these videos in two weeks and in their reporting on birth of the National Zoo’s panda cubs.
Not only that, but also they refused to cover the tens of thousands of Americans speaking out against Planned Parenthood during nationwide rallies held in late August – except as a side note when CBS tried to connect the event to arson.
While the networks covered rallies against Planned Parenthood in Jan. 2017, they omitted from their reports that abortion activists tried to disrupt pro-lifers and clashed with police.
Citing information from MRC studies, both Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and members of Congress led by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) have slammed the media for their lack of coverage on the videos.
