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   Tuesday, an undercover video was posted online and reported on   
   by various news outlets that showed a Planned Parenthood   
   executive talking about the organization’s operation of selling   
   body parts of aborted children.   
      
   After learning about it, I was immediately struck with deep   
   emotion. It is hard to believe this is occurring in the United   
   States of America.   
      
   I realize that our nation remains divided on the issue of   
   abortion, but surely we are not divided on the procurement and   
   sale of human organs. Babies were discussed, in the video, like   
   they are an item to be casually harvested then purchased in a   
   grocery story.   
      
   How far have we come as a society when we resort to harvesting   
   body parts for monetary gain?   
      
   We must also stop providing taxpayer support for abortion   
   through funding organizations that abort children or engage in   
   the harvesting of body parts. By the way, Planned Parenthood   
   receives more than $500 million in taxpayer money every year.   
      
   These innocent children are deemed valuable enough to have their   
   organs, as the Vice President of Communications for Planned   
   Parenthood said, “help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as   
   treatments and cures for serious diseases,” but their own lives   
   are not given the same value.  We are talking about human organs   
   – if the organs are human, so is the person.   
      
   The harvesting of body parts is a callous disregard for human   
   dignity. And not only is the act reprehensible, it is illegal.   
   There is a federal ban on selling fetal tissue for “valuable   
   consideration.”   
      
   In the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act, Congress made clear   
   its intent to criminalize the buying and selling of organs for   
   profit, noting “that individuals or organizations should not   
   profit by the sale of human organs for transplantation.”   
      
   The graphic nature of the procedures described in this video   
   shows both the humanity of the victim and the inhumanity of what   
   is being done to them.   
      
   The video shows that Planned Parenthood is conducting abortions   
   with the goal of harvesting particular organs.   
      
   In the video, the Planned Parenthood executive states, “you try   
   to intentionally go above and below the thorax, so that, you   
   know, we’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver,   
   because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m   
   going to basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m   
   gonna see if I can get it all intact.”   
      
   The Planned Parenthood executive also notes that in some cases,   
   abortions are being performed in such a way as to increase the   
   chances of getting those organs.   
      
   She said, “in general, some people will actually try to change   
   the presentation so that it’s not vertex, because when it’s   
   vertex presentation, you never have enough dilation at the   
   beginning of the case, unless you have real, huge amount of   
   dilation to deliver an intact calvarium. So if you do it   
   starting from the breech presentation, there’s dilation that   
   happens as the case goes on, and often, the last, you can   
   evacuate an intact calvarium at the end.”   
      
   She went on to say that “If you induce a demise before the   
   procedure, nobody’s going to say you did a ‘live’—whatever the   
   federal government calls it. Partial-birth abortion… The Federal   
   Abortion Ban is a law, and laws are up to interpretation.”   
      
   Not only is the law clear, it certainly is not open to   
   interpretation by Planned Parenthood. The sale of human organs   
   is illegal and so is the practice of partial birth abortion.   
      
   Aborting a baby at any stage is reprehensible, but this story   
   also serves as a reminder that late-term abortion still exists   
   in America. There are only seven countries in the world that   
   allow abortions after the 20-week period—a time that it has been   
   scientifically proven babies feel pain.   
      
   Surprisingly, the United States is one of these countries, along   
   with Canada, North Korea, China, Vietnam, Netherlands and   
   Singapore.   
      
   This is unacceptable.   
      
   It is time for Congress to take up and pass the Pain-Capable   
   Unborn Child Protection Act (S.1553) to ban abortions after 20   
   weeks and stand up for the right to life.   
      
   We must also stop providing taxpayer support for abortion   
   through funding organizations that abort children or engage in   
   the harvesting of body parts. By the way, Planned Parenthood   
   receives more than $500 million in taxpayer money every year.   
      
   The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full   
   Disclosure Act (S. 582) would enact a permanent, government-wide   
   prohibition of taxpayer funding for abortion. S. 582 is needed   
   to ensure that taxpayer money never goes to the killing of   
   innocent life.   
      
   Although Americans are divided on the issue of abortion, it is   
   common-sense that we shouldn’t force a person who is   
   passionately opposed to the killing of the unborn to assist in   
   paying for the procedure.   
      
   One of our generation’s greatest tragedies is that in the United   
   States of America, we allow elective killing of our children.   
      
   In our Declaration of Independence, the Founders of America   
   declared that everyone is endowed by their Creator with certain   
   unalienable rights, including and especially life.   
      
   That is a child, not a collection of organs and tissue for sale.   
   We have got to stand for life.   
      
   Republican James Lankford represents Oklahoma in the United   
   States Senate.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/07/16/cannot-be-nation-that-   
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