3 highlights from Marjorie Taylor Greene's hearing on aborted baby parts 'black market'
Greene plays CMP video footage
During the hearing, Greene played footage from several videos the Center for Medical Progress released in 2015, which drew national headlines and sparked a House probe into fetal tissue procurement practices at the time.
The videos purportedly show officials from the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, agreeing to the illegal sale of aborted baby body parts. Planned Parenthood has maintained that the videos were deceptively edited.
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Several of the videos shared during the hearing were some of the videos Daleiden and his colleagues secretly recorded at conferences with various abortion industry leaders, including facility directors and Planned Parenthood chief medical officers.
Daleiden alleged that the videos showed abortion industry workers discussing how much money they could make from selling tissue from aborted babies and expressing a willingness to skirt the law to obtain more intact aborted body parts to sell.
In one of the videos, a speaker at a seminar read various testimonies from abortion providers. One of the testimonies described an eyeball falling into the lap of the provider performing the abortion, prompting loud laughter from the event attendees.
The hearing also included a clip from a March 2022 recording that showed Bukovinac and her colleague Lauren Handy unboxing the human remains they obtained from the Washington Surgi-Clinic. In the clip, Handy and Bukovinac can be heard weeping after the former removed a fully-formed baby from one of the boxes.
In her opening statement, Bukovinac repeated the claim that she and Handy obtained the 115 remains after asking the driver of a Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services truck if they could take them and give them a burial.
The PAAU founder showed a picture of one of the five late-term babies her group named Harriet, arguing that the baby's wounds suggest she may have been aborted illegally via a partial-birth abortion.
The activist also showed pictures of a Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services truck outside the Washington Surgi-Clinic on the day PAAU recovered the remains. The company has denied that it transports aborted remains and that its drivers handed over any boxes to the PAAU activists.
Bukovinac testified that the babies PAAU recovered were not to be used for research purposes, stating that their bodies likely would have been incinerated. The activist also noted during her testimony that Curtis Bay pleaded guilty last year to multiple charges, including failing to dispose of medical waste properly.
"They were not trash to be burned, spare parts to be experimented on," Bukovinac said about the remains her group recovered. "They were human beings, just like you and me."
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman
