FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW FOOTAGE SHOWS ORGAN HARVESTING COMPANY WORKING AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN PITTSBURGH
The University of Pittsburgh and Planned Parenthood Both Denied Under Oath Fetus Harvesting At Clinic
Contact: David Daleiden, media@centerformedicalprogress.org, 949.734.0859
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10—New photographs and video recorded by pro-life advocates with 40 Days for Life in Pittsburgh, PA document a University of Pittsburgh-linked organ harvesting and tissue procurement company, the Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE), working at Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania’s abortion clinic in the city.
The footage shows a vehicle displaying the CORE logo parked in the driveway of the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, next to the clinic’s “bubble zone” entrance markings on the sidewalk, and a man wearing an identification badge lanyard carrying what appear to be specimen bags from the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic and storing them in a cooler inside the CORE vehicle.
CORE is based in Pittsburgh and supplies organs and tissues for research in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh’s Health Sciences Tissue Bank, which is a long-established distributor of human fetal organs and tissues from elective abortions for government-sponsored experimentation. Yet in sworn testimony before a Pennsylvania House of Representatives hearing in 2021, the University of Pittsburgh insisted it “does not obtain fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood”.
“The University of Pittsburgh swore under oath that it did not harvest fetal organs from Planned Parenthood—so what is the University’s organ harvesting company doing parked at the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic with coolers?” asks David Daleiden, founder and president of The Center for Medical Progress. “The lies from Pitt and Planned Parenthood must stop now and elected officials in Pennsylvania must demand the truth.”
Previously, CMP questioned Pitt’s denials because Planned Parenthood abortion providers operate the University’s abortion program, Planned Parenthood is a satellite clinical location of the University, and Planned Parenthood’s medical director is Vice Chair of the Pitt Institutional Review Board (IRB) overseeing all fetal experimentation at Pitt.
CMP is the investigative journalism organization responsible for the 2015 series of undercover video reports exposing Planned Parenthood leadership’s participation in the trafficking of aborted fetuses and has covered fetal experimentation at the University of Pittsburgh and Planned Parenthood over the past few years. The photos and video of CORE at Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania were provided by local advocate Katie O’Brien with 40 Days for Life Pittsburgh and Sidewalk Advocates for Life of Pittsburgh.
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See the photographs below and watch the new footage here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iCT1uPS-f74
Watch CMP’s reporting on fetal experimentation at Pitt and Planned Parenthood here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-JUzqswKZs
Learn more about CMP here: centerformedicalprogress.org
