New Evidence Reveals Major Indictment of Planned Parenthood

Ben Johnson : Feb 1, 2016
LifeSite News

"Because of this new evidence, we renew our call for a new grand jury to investigate Planned Parenthood to be directed by an independent special prosecutor not related in any way to Devon Anderson, anyone in the Harris County District Attorney’s office, or Anderson’s friend, Chip Lewis." -Douglas Karpen

(Houston, TX) - A pro-life organization has released documents that may show Planned Parenthood illegally profited from the sale of aborted babies' body parts, furthering a Texas state investigation and possibly triggering a new grand jury in Harris County. (Photo: LifeSite News)

The new receipts show that Planned Parenthood charges for each body part obtained, as pro-life advocates had maintained all along.

Operation Rescue attorney Briscoe Cain held a press conference in front of the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Houston, which is run by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC). After undercover investigators filmed PPGC officials discussing how such profit could be hidden in "line items," it touched off a series of investigations at the national, state, and local level.

One of those was in Harris County, where the grand jury on Monday took no action against Planned Parenthood but indicted David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the CMP investigators who shot the footage. They face up to 20 years in prison for using a fake ID.

New invoices show PPGC partnering with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to furnish aborted babies' tissue for medical research and experimentation.

An e-mail from September 7, 2011, shows a UTMB official telling Melissa Farrell (who personally signs some of her e-mails "Missy"), "We are needing to collect tissues as soon as possible."

Farrell, the director of research at PPGC, sent UTMB two invoices: one for $5,750 covering February-August 2010, and another for $2,374.98 for January-June 2011.

Each has a flat-fee charge - listed alternately as "reimbursement for study supplies" or "annual admin fee."

Both also contain a line charging $150 for each "consent" obtained - something lawyers say proves that PPGC charged a fee per specimen.

That designation is how Farrell was able to…

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