By DEXTER DUGGAN
“Dead Baby Parts Business Booming,” said the main headline on the front page of The Wanderer.
This wasn’t in the summer of 2015, when the California-based Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released shocking videos that millions of people could see directly on their personal electronic devices.
The headline was in the September 30, 1999, issue of The Wanderer, 17 years ago, when most people still had to rely on hardcopy news publications whose content was filtered through liberal writers and editors.
Back then, readers of specialized publications like The Wanderer and other pro-life journals received this information, which even made a ripple in national consciousness. However, without being prioritized in the dominant media’s news flow, it sank back below the surface, which was where Big Media preferred to keep it.
The major growth of Internet access and social media after the 21st century began empowered people as never before, giving them unprecedented reach to information to act upon — and making governments like Barack Obama’s want to rein in this vital free flow.
Information used to be harder to access, and liberal censors would like to return to those times, but that might prove difficult to do.
The Wanderer asked a veteran pro-lifer Catholic woman why she thought the CMP videos resonated more than similar news 17 years ago. “I’m with you: The Internet and social media helped drive this thing,” she replied.
In 1999, harvesting of aborted babies’ organs already was well-established, with the same circumstances that CMP showed video evidence for in 2015 — including unethically altering abortion methods to better obtain parts, scheming to mask the illegal sale of the parts, and ordering desired body parts with chilling explicit descriptions.
Then as now, organ-procurement workers even shared space with abortuaries to obtain their organs on the spot. The 1999 Wanderer story quoted promotional material from one company that it “will lease space from your facility to perform the harvesting and distribution of tissue. The revenue generated from the lease can be used to offset your clinic’s overhead.”
Also as in the present day, body material from aborted babies was used in research employing non-human species.
Research mice known as SCID mice would receive human tissue, making them “humice,” The Wanderer reported, quoting a document: “Briefly, a SCID mouse is engrafted with either a human bone-marrow fragment, thymus/liver graft, or a lymph node. These mice will then be used to study hemoglobinopathies in vivo.”
The pro-life revelations in the late 1990s didn’t resound as powerfully as in 2015 because media capabilities had changed in the meantime.
Seventeen years ago, The Wanderer story by news editor Paul Likoudis said research by Life Dynamics, a Texas-based pro-life organization, had produced shocking information about what the abortion industry had become.
It’s “a double-profiteering, body-snatching supplier for the rapidly growing biologics and pharmacological industries which require a continuing supply of fresh human bodies, brains, organs, flesh and bones for research, product manufacturing, treatments and therapies,” the story said.
A price list from a procurer known as Opening Lines to purchase baby parts from abortionists included $999 for brains eight weeks old or less, $400 for an intact embryonic cadaver of eight weeks or less, $550 for gonads, and $350 for bone marrow, Likoudis wrote.
Pro-life activist Mark Crutcher started Life Dynamics Inc. in 1992. Five years later his organization began investigating the scandalous baby-parts business for about 31 months, resulting in a report that can be seen at the website lifedynamics.com.
For the report, click on “Reports & Projects” at the top of the home page, then scroll down to “The Marketing of Aborted Baby Parts.”
In a January 8 telephone interview, Crutcher told The Wanderer that the expansion of people’s ability to access information in the 21st century made a big difference between the way Life Dynamics’ research was received years ago and the greater attention the CMP videos reaped in 2015.
The abortion industry’s “stranglehold on the media . . . enabled them to keep this information away from the American people,” Crutcher said. But, he added, “the abortion industry and what I like to call the godless left lost their stranglehold” over disseminating information due to this expansion.
Whether it’s the abortion issue or many others, “our position was no longer being censored, and public opinion began to shift,” he said. “They lost that monopoly on the flow of information to the American people.”
David Daleiden, the CMP team lead, was aware of Crutcher’s work and consulted with him as CMP undertook its own project.
Just like CMP’s videos of Planned Parenthood officials relaxing at restaurants as they casually discuss dissecting baby body parts, the Life Dynamics website has a video of a doctor munching away in a restaurant as he discusses organ procurement.
“Feet are real common,” says the aborted-baby trafficker as the heart, brain, kidney, and liver are discussed.
The projection was for a $50,000-a-week business, he says, but that figure fluctuates with the week’s supply and demand.
“If you control the flow, it’s probably the equivalent of the invention of the assembly line,” he says.
Crutcher told The Wanderer, “There was some media coverage” of the Life Dynamics revelations. “. . . But it was always slanted.”
Although the shocking facts had been made public, they receded from attention, Crutcher said. “(T)he big-story part went away after about six months.”
The Wanderer story in 1999 also said: “Fetal-tissue research, harvesting organs from living, aborted babies, building ‘humice’ for research, and the rest of the brave new world of biomedical research is not new; the work goes back to the 1920s, according to the American Life League’s Judie Brown in Recycling Babies: The Practice of Fetal Tissue Research (1996).”
An article in the November 1999 newsletter of the Virginia-based Human Life International, HLI Reports, citing the Life Dynamics research, quoted a co-founder of one parts procurer, Brenda Bardsley, that it’s better to be vague when telling shipping companies what their packages of organs contain.
“You could have a part-time person delivering it who freaks out,” she was quoted in 1999. “So, we’ve learned through years and years and years of doing this.”
Years and years and years. The dominant U.S. media didn’t want to learn about this established practice in 1999, and still were little more receptive in 2015.
What Survives?
The HLI Reports story said a procurer identified as “Kelly,” who worked inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, told of receiving a list each day of what researchers wanted, then examining patient charts to see what could be obtained.
“These had to be the most perfect specimens we could give these researchers for the best value that we could sell for,” Kelly was quoted, saying sexually transmitted diseases and fetal anomalies were screened out.
This sounds quite like PP officer Dr. Deborah Nucatola in a CMP video, saying she had a huddle with abortion co-workers at the beginning of the day as to what needed to be obtained from the patients’ procedures.
The 1999 HLI Reports story listed some specific baby body parts being sought, including a “whole intact leg” with the “entire hip joint,” at around 22 to 24 weeks gestation, “to be removed from fetal cadaver” within 10 minutes of the abortion. “4-6 specimens per shipment.”
Also, one or both eyes, four to ten of them per day, gestation from 16 to 24 weeks; a whole brain, “both cortical hemispheres intact, if possible,” from 16 to 22 or more weeks of gestation; and livers from 12 to 15 weeks, to be implanted in primates.
In addition: “Normal fetal kidney, heart, lung, liver, spleen, pancreas, skin, smooth muscle, skeletal muscle, brain. . . . Need 5-10 samples of each per month, 15-24 weeks gestation.”
The story said Kelly left the procurement business after an abortionist showed her 24-week-old twins still alive in a pan. After she complained because they were alive, the abortionist poured water into the pan to drown them.
This sounds similar to procurement specialist Holly O’Donnell in the CMP videos quitting her job after she was told to cut open a newly aborted baby’s face to remove his brain and did so.
There’s no doubt why an aborted baby doesn’t survive such ruthless attacks on her body. The question is: How can the conscience survive of major media executives like Andy Rosenthal and Dean Baquet at The New York Times? They do all they can to cover up and shrug off this slaughter of innocents so it can continue in the millions.
And Catholics like Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, and Paul Ryan cut deals in Congress to make sure Planned Parenthood’s coffers overflow. As well as its Dumpsters.
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