An eighth undercover video released by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress shows the head of a company that supplies human blood and tissue products to researchers discussing the procurement of samples and saying “another 50 livers a week” would make her lab happy.
StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer says in the video she’s seen doctors mistakenly provide blood clots rather than a liver.
“We’ve seen plenty of those,” she said. “We can always tell right away because it’s just red water by the time it gets to us. … It’s like, whoa, it disappeared.”
She also said “yeast contamination” can be another issue.
Asked what would make her lab happy, Ms. Dyer replies, “another 50 livers a week.”
“I mean, if you had intact cases, which we’ve done a lot - we sometimes shipped those back to our lab in its entirety,” Ms. Dyer also says.
“The entire case?” she is asked by an actor posing as a buyer.
“Yeah, yeah,” she says. “The procurement for us, I mean it can go really sideways, depending on the facility, and then our samples are destroyed, and we’re like, ’really?’ This was all so much work, and then just to have them be destroyed is awful. I mean, we have…researchers wait forever and they want certain things perfectly done, so, you know, we started bringing them back even to try to manage it from a procurement expert standpoint.”
David Daleiden, project lead for CMP, said in a statement that 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,” Mr. Daleiden said.
CMP said an “intact case” refers to an intact abortion with a whole fetus. But the company said Ms. Dyer was referring solely to “intact livers.”
“Consistent with the company’s prior public statements, StemExpress has never requested, received or provided to a researcher an ’intact fetus,’ Ms. Dyer said in a statement, saying the group’s “continued lies” “reflect a sad attempt to malign StemExpress and me personally.”
“My use of the term ’intact cases’ is a medical term of art that refers solely to ’intact livers,’ as there was absolutely no mention of ’intact fetuses’ at any point in over two hours of illegally recorded video,” she said.
Though Planned Parenthood is less of a focus in the latest video, the other videos released by CMP, which show Planned Parenthood executives discussing fetal tissue preservation, have prompted requests for investigations into Planned Parenthood by Republicans on Capitol Hill and around the country.
StemExpress recently cut its ties with Planned Parenthood in the wake of the release of other videos. The latest video says it was recorded on May 22.
“You feel like there are clinics out there that have been burned, that feel like they’re doing all this work for research and it hasn’t been profitable for them?” Ms. Dyer also asks in the video.
Told no, she says, “Oh, OK, good. … I don’t see that, either. I haven’t seen that piece either with that.”
CMP posted a short clip of the latest video Friday after a Los Angeles judge dissolved a temporary restraining order against its release.
Planned Parenthood and StemExpress have said the videos are selectively edited and misleading, and Planned Parenthood has said it does not profit from fetal tissue. Congressional Democrats have opened their own investigation into CMP.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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