University of California at Planned Parenthood
The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) is collecting “tissues from fetuses” ranging from 4 to 23 weeks from women “undergoing pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego,” the California Globe reports, citing a “heavily redacted” UCSD Human Research Protections Program approved in early 2018.
The UCSD program has been exposed by David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), who notes that “the majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care.” The clinical data for each subject was to include “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilation and evacuation procedure,” and the program “sought to harvest fetuses from up to 2,500 patients.”
The revelation is not Daleiden’s first encounter with Planned Parenthood. For example, in 2015, the CMP secretly recorded Planned Parenthood Executive Mary Gatter discussing the sale of organs and other body parts. “Let me just figure out what others are getting, and if this is in the ballpark, then it’s fine, if it’s still low, then we can bump it up,” Gatter said. “I want a Lamborghini.”
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told reporters that “the allegation that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true,” but apologized “for the staff member’s tone and statements.” In another video, Dr. Deb Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, said she would use a “less crunchy” method to extract tissue, to “see if I can get it all intact.”
California’s then-Attorney General Kamala Harris did not investigate the possible sale of body parts, a violation of medical ethics and state law. At the time, Harris was seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, and posted on her campaign website a petition asking voters to “take a stand and join Kamala in defending Planned Parenthood.” In effect, Harris was their pro-bono attorney, but there was more to it.
Eight days after the posting of the video, the attorney general deployed eleven state Department of Justice agents armed with rifles and K-9 dogs to raid Daleiden’s Orange County residence. The agents seized Daleiden’s laptop and hard drives and attempted to take his phone as he spoke to his attorneys. One attorney described the raid as “an oppressive abuse of government power,” and if civil libertarians agreed it would be hard to blame them.
After election to the Senate, Harris hired, as her communications director, Lily Adams, daughter of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards. In 2017, Daleiden and colleague Sandra Merritt were charged with 15 felonies, but in 2019 a judge dismissed five of the charges. In 2023, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case about damages Daleiden was ordered to pay Planned Parenthood, and CMP lived on to fight another day.
As the Globe’s Katy Grimes noted, StemExpress LLC “was a major buyer of fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood, and one of the companies buying the supply of tiny hearts, lungs, livers and tissue.” The University of California at San Diego is now in the market, as other UC campuses make other news.
Stop Anti-Semitism has placed the University of California at Davis on its list of the 25 worst schools for anti-Semitism, surpassing UCLA and Columbia University in New York. UC Davis is also home to Professor Joshua Clover, who in 2019, after a criminal shot and killed Davis police officer Natalie Corona, proclaimed that cops “need to be killed,” an easier task when “their backs are turned.”
Meanwhile, the entire University of California system faces a $500 million budget deficit which they are attempting to fix by hiking tuition instead of junking their wasteful DEI bureaucracy. Maybe the University of California, San Diego–Planned Parenthood axis should also get a look. Despite the CMR revelations, and connections with the racist Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood continues to be regarded with favor in Sacramento and Washington. (READ MORE: Oh Say Can UC?)
On Nov. 20, President Joe Biden awarded former Planned Parenthood president Denise Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The Delaware Democrat said Richards had “led some of our Nation’s most important civil rights causes,” including “women’s reproductive rights and equality.” A leader of “utmost character,” Richards had “carved an inspiring legacy that endures in her incredible family, the countless lives she has made better, and a Nation seeking the light of equality, justice, and freedom.”
Lloyd Billingsley is a policy fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif.
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