As Eighth PP Video Appears . . . California Commentator Explains Why Media Avoid Facing Facts
By DEXTER DUGGAN
Media people and politicians who are “married” to the pro-abortion view would rather be “biting into their wrists” than give up that belief, a veteran California reporter, anchor woman and talk host told The Wanderer as the pro-life Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released its eighth sting video on selling baby parts.
The abortion defenders “are married to the idea that abortion is a woman’s right, and if you do anything to undermine it, they’ll lose that right,” said Barbara Simpson, who worked at major electronic news outlets in Los Angeles and San Francisco before becoming a Bay Area radio talk host. She currently writes a weekly commentary for World Net Daily.
“They just will not do anything that will begin to undermine this idea they’ve had” favoring permissive abortion, including not providing news coverage of the videos as a serious, important story, Simpson said in an August 25 interview.
When The Wanderer suggested that the CMP would receive a special Pulitzer Prize for journalistic excellence if its investigative work had exposed a major scandal that liberals wanted to expose, Simpson replied, “Absolutely. No question about it.”
Simpson recalled that selling aborted baby parts had surfaced as an issue earlier in this century, but it didn’t become as much of a controversy because getting the news out through the Internet wasn’t as advanced as today.
Describing herself as “appalled” by the videos, Simpson added, “I knew a lot of this. I did radio programs about the selling of baby parts eight or ten years ago,” but the issue didn’t expand into public consciousness because of dominant media pro-abortionists whose attitude was, “If you ignore it, it doesn’t exist.”
She recalled that pro-life activist Mark Crutcher’s Life Dynamics organization in Texas helped shock pro-lifers with revelations about baby parts from abortuaries being sold, but the news had a harder time reaching the wider public.
However, Simpson said, today “it’s color pictures and we have the Internet.”
The eighth video features executives of the California procurement company StemExpress casually chatting about passing along to labs unborn baby remains obtained from abortion clinics including high-volume supplier Planned Parenthood.
StemExpress tried to prevent the release of this video made on May 22 at a California restaurant, but a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on August 21 allowed its distribution.
As in previous videos, this one shows the abortion enablers drinking wine poured from a bottle into stylish glasses, eating and laughing as they discuss dissected babies.
The video includes remarks by StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer about seriously unsanitary conditions at some abortion clinics, the shipping of intact baby heads so as to preserve their fragile brain tissue, and the profitability of procuring tissue then selling it to researchers.
Dyer spoke of the emotional turmoil that seeing the babies’ body parts causes to some researchers, who prefer to have the hands and feet removed before they receive the remaining flesh.
She also referred to obtaining “intact cases,” but subsequently said in an August news release that she was referring to babies’ highly sought livers instead of entirely intact babies.
In the video at the restaurant, Dyer said, “If you have intact cases, which we’ve done a lot, we’ve sometimes shipped those back to our lab in its entirety, and that would also be great if you have those.”
If Dyer meant only whole livers, one would wonder why she referred to “sometimes” shipping them to her lab “in its entirety,” because the context of her comments made plain StemExpress is a high-volume business that easily could use another 50 acceptable baby livers per week.
In a story posted August 25, the conservative Washington Free Beacon website quoted Dyer: “We’re working with, you know, almost like triple-digit number of clinics. So it’s a lot on volume. We still need more than what we do. So it’s a lot. . . . I don’t think you’re going to hit a capacity with us any time in the next 10 years.”
As in previous CMP videos, damning comments exposing the abortion industry come out in this eighth release — comments that would be the top headline for major U.S. news organizations if they concerned a different topic, such as a callous environmental polluter.
The Christian Post website on August 25 quoted Dyer: “Contamination is a big issue. We’ve seen all sorts of things. I’ve seen rampant, rampant problems with bacteria in certain clinics. Some where you’re in question, should they — I’ve seen staph (infection) come out of clinics; I’ve seen all sorts of things come out of clinics.”
Bearing in mind that pro-abortionist Dyer simply is candidly mentioning facts instead of trying to harm the clinics, a person might think that major media would jump on such a topic to investigate, simply to protect women’s health, which they always claim to be concerned about.
However, when it’s a choice between protecting women and protecting massive abortion, these media come down in favor of what the abortionists please.
As for researchers’ ethical queasiness about working on aborted babies, the Christian Post quoted Dyer:
“So many of the academic labs say, ‘we need limbs, but no hands and no feet attached.’ It’s almost like they don’t want to know where it’s coming from. The lab techs freak out and have meltdowns. That’s why a lot of researchers get into other things. . . . They want to get away from having to publish a picture and paper that says this is derived from fetal tissue.”
Yes, medical researchers who actually touch the body parts suffer serious moral problems, but fiercely pro-abortion news media shut their eyes tight and hope this horror goes on forever.
Planned Parenthood resolutely has insisted publicly that it’s only being reimbursed for its costs when it sells baby parts, even though in previous videos its executives clearly are negotiating for the best price they can get.
In the eighth video, when Dyer is asked if clinics complain that their work in baby parts hasn’t been profitable for them, she replies, “I haven’t seen that.”
In an August 25 news release, CMP repeats a point it made previously, that StemExpress promises financial benefits for PP:
“StemExpress publishes a flyer for Planned Parenthood clinics that promises ‘Financial Profits’ and ‘fiscal rewards’ for clinics that supply aborted fetal tissue. It is endorsed by Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dorothy Furgerson.”
The news release adds: “The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2). The Sacramento Business Journal reported in June that StemExpress has an annual revenue of $4.5 million.”
After the videos began to be released, an embarrassed StemExpress said it was terminating its business relationship with PP.
CMP project leader David Daleiden said in a statement: “StemExpress is the ‘weakest link’ that unravels Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts chain — they readily admit the profit motive that Planned Parenthood and their proxies have in supplying aborted baby parts. Congress and law enforcement should immediately seize all fetal-tissue files from StemExpress and all communications and contracts with Planned Parenthood.
“The evidence that Planned Parenthood profits from the sale of aborted baby parts is now overwhelming, and not one more dime of taxpayer money should go to their corrupt and fraudulent criminal enterprise,” Daleiden said.
California commentator Simpson, who once wanted to show an abortion being performed when she worked in Los Angeles television news, before she had crystallized her own views on the issue, praised Daleiden for exposing the subject now.
“It takes great courage” to reveal this, she said.
“This man with his videos is forcing the issue, and I think that’s very healthy” for society’s well-being, Simpson told The Wanderer. “I think we have to clean out the cobwebs in the corner.”
Her boss at the Los Angeles station in the 1970s approved her abortion story idea, Simpson said.
“What we got was pictures of the tubes coming out of the woman. . . . It wasn’t bloody. It was natural color. . . . They wouldn’t let me use these pictures of the stuff going through the tubes. . . . They were squeamish about it. I was arguing to show it,” Simpson said.
Although the story ran, “these big, tough guys” at the TV station wouldn’t let this portion go on the air, she said.
Asked if she’d formed her own view of abortion back then, the pro-life Simpson told The Wanderer, “You know, I’m not sure that I did,” although she thought “something about it was not right.”
Simpson told of a situation she knows of personally where a pregnant woman was considering abortion but had an ultrasound, “when the mother could see what was inside her. That’s when she changed her mind” and went on to give birth to a baby who can be held and loved.
The CMP videos show “insanity,” Simpson said. “How does it differ from (Nazi experimenter Dr. Josef) Mengele? It doesn’t. . . .
“Even if you are solidly pro-choice,” she said, “if you see a plate of baby parts, doesn’t it affect you?”
Citing the major media attention recently given to the death of Cecil the lion in Africa, versus much less major reporting of this Planned Parenthood scandal, Simpson said, “There’s something wrong with the value system. I think we have lost our guidance.”
Over the years working in the news business, she said in a subsequent email to The Wanderer, “I counseled a couple of young women reporters who confided in me they were pregnant — and married, I might add — but concerned that their pregnancy would interfere with their jobs and career. They were considering abortion, and they knew I worked full-time, had three children and was divorced. They asked my advice.
“I told them the best thing in the world was happening to them — having a child — and no job could compare,” Simpson continued. “I also told them that the business is such that it chews you up and spits you out — that they would get no sympathy from management, and to do what is right for their family — and things will work out.
“I do know that years later, one of the women made a point to come up to me and thank me for my advice. She said I was right and appreciated my insight. That made me feel good,” she said.
