CP's Top 10 News Stories of 2015 (Part 2)
3. Planned Parenthood videos expose baby parts industry.
Following the release of undercover videos and transcripts from a three-year investigation conducted by the pro-life group known as The Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood 1.) admitted that the nation's largest abortion business has never provided life-saving mammograms, and 2.) stopped accepting payments for harvesting aborted babies' organs, tissue and limbs amid congressional investigations into its policies and clinic operations.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, testified under oath before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Capitol Hill in Washington in September that despite receiving millions of dollars to provide (function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); According its catalog, prices for fetal liver tissue samples range from $3,031 to $24,250. The company is ranked by Inc. magazine as No. 363 on its list of the fastest-growing privately held companies in 2014. StemExpress grew more than 1,300 percent over a three-year period, starting with $156,312 in revenue in 2010 to pulling in $2.2 million in 2013. In its seventh video, CMP released more of its interview in which O'Donnell, the former StemExpress fetal tissue procurement technician who quit her job after she was told to harvest a brain from an almost fully gestated aborted baby whose heart was still beating at a Planned Parenthood clinic in California. In the pathology lab a senior StemExpress technician named Jessica showed O'Donnell how to procure an intact brain. "This is the most gestated fetus, the closest thing to a baby I have ever seen," O'Donnell said. "She is like, 'OK, I want to show you something.' She has one of her instruments and she just taps the heart and it starts beating. …" O'Donnell explained that Jessica started cutting the head of the baby, starting at the bottom of the chin making her way up through the middle of the mouth. Then, Jessica handed the scissors to O'Donnell and told her to finish cutting through the rest of the baby's head so they could secure the intact brain. "That was the moment I knew I couldn't work for the company anymore," O'Donnell said. After O'Donnell and other former and current StemExpress employees appeared in CMP's undercover videos, StemExpress announced that it was cutting ties with Planned Parenthood.











