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Abortion Provider: We Should Admit 'It's Violence, It's a Person, It's Killing'


By    |   Monday, 02 November 2015 10:34 PM EST

One of the unreleased Planned Parenthood undercover videos allegedly leaked by a congressional staffer reveals a panelist at a National Abortion Federation conference telling abortion providers that they should stop ignoring the existence of the fetus in public comments on abortion, saying "let’s just give them all 'it’s violence, it’s a person, it’s killing.'"

The pro-life Center for Medical Progress conducted an undercover sting operation on Planned Parenthood that has garnered national outrage in recent months. The group was prevented by court order from publishing more videos. In response, The Washington Post reports, a congressional staffer is said to have leaked the videos to Charles Johnson, who runs the conservative GotNews website. Along with a hacker named Andrew "Weev" Aurenheimer, the videos were posted onto the Internet.

Aurenheimer posted video of a conference by the National Abortion Federation onto YouTube titled "Planned Parenthood Michigan Workshop Video."

The pro-life group Students for for Life of America has identified the video as a CMP recording made in San Francisco on April 7, 2014, of the "National Abortion Federation (NAF) annual conference for Planned Parenthood and other abortionists."

The group posted a condensed video of the conference highlighting quotes made by participants.

Around the 16-minute mark of the Aurenheimer video, a panelist SFLA identifies as Dr. Lisa Harris from the University of Michigan responds to an abortion provider's question about the reality of the fetus being disposed of in an abortion.

"Ignoring the fetus is a luxury of activists and advocates," she says. "If you aren’t in there every day… You can’t ignore the fetus, right? Because the fetus is the marker of how well, how good of a job you did, right?

"If you don’t account for all the parts, and you don’t look carefully, you, you may be setting someone up for infection or hemorrhage or whatever. The fetus matters. Clinically to us.

"Not to mention that women know what’s in there. You know about two thirds, over 60 percent of women are already mothers. And the remainder don’t want to be mothers. They’re not stupid. They know what’s in there."

Continuing, she says:

"I actually think it should be less about denying the reality of those images and more about acknowledging, that, 'Yeah that’s kind of true,' so given that we actually see the fetus the same way, and given that we might actually both agree that there’s violence in here. … Let’s just give them all 'It’s violence, it’s a person, it’s killing.'"

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One of the unreleased Planned Parenthood undercover videos allegedly leaked by a congressional staffer reveals a panelist at a National Abortion Federation conference telling abortion providers that they should stop ignoring the existence of the fetus in public comments on...
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