In the letter to Congress, Richards said some facilities receive a $45 to $55 per specimen reimbursement and one California facility receives a “modest” amount of $60 per specimen. CMP countered that the reimbursement can add up to hundreds of dollars because one abortion can provide multiple specimens. CMP also identified ABR as the company that pays Planned Parenthood $60 per specimen.
“We now know from Cecile Richards’ letter that $60 per collected tissue specimen is what will ‘get a toe in’ to harvest baby parts at Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest,” CMP’s project leader David Daleiden wrote in a response letter to Congress.
Perrin Larton, the procurement manager at ABR, also described some of the procurement process to an actor posing as a researcher. Because the abortion instruments usually rip the babies’ abdomens, “whenever we have a smooth portion of liver, we think that’s good,” she said. Occasionally, ABR can procure an intact fetus if a woman’s cervix is dilated enough, but Larton said ABR avoids born-alive infants.
“The whole point is not to have a live birth,” Larton said. But ABR can’t use fetuses killed with chemicals like digoxin, which CMP said last week indicates the infant is likely to be born alive.
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