MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, Pa., (CBS) – Middletown Township, Bucks County has declared a state of emergency for the weekend of the Pope’s visit, according to police.
The township will be directly impacted by having one of the five train stops in the county, according to a press release from Chief of Police Joseph Bartorilla.
“The state of emergency simply places the township in a state of readiness and preparedness for the challenges the weekend may present, and ensures adequate resources are available, if necessary,” said Chief Bartorilla in the press release.
“The state of emergency declaration allows the township to ensure that all of its employees are available to work that weekend, if necessary. It allows the township to recover expenses used for the event should federal or state funding become available. And finally, the state of emergency will allow greater access to resources and equipment from the county and state that may be needed for the weekend traffic and crowd management issues,” said Chief Bartorilla.
The chief says the township is working very closely with Bucks County emergency management personnel and with SEPTA in preparing for this event.
While some people are spending as much as $600 a night at hotels for Pope Francis’ highly anticipated visit to Philadelphia, a North Jersey church group is spending less money on a far less luxurious place to stay: the Philadelphia Zoo.
“The zoo makes it a little more down to earth because it’s more like a pilgrimage,” said Melissa Peters, a congregant at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey. “We’re not gonna be staying in a hotel room where we have showers or where we have continental breakfasts and things like that. Instead we’re sleeping with animals in order to see the pope.”
Peters and 220 other parents and children from the church will sleep on the floor of the Philly Zoo buildings housing the bird and insect exhibits during the Pope’s visit to Philly for the World Meeting of Families in September.
“A pilgrimage is very different from a vacation or a trip,” said Cathy Hunt, another congregant. “A pilgrimage is a prayer experience and any discomfort that you’ll feel the excitement will be tenfold that.”
Church leaders say Pope Francis was named for Saint Francis, the patron saint of animals. They plan on publicizing their unique accommodations on Instagram and Twitter in the hopes that Pope Francis will take notice.
“If he kisses one of our kids I’ll be smiling the whole ride home,” said Father Gino de la Rama.
The church members will pay $120 a person for the overnight stay at the zoo and the bus ride. The church office said they’re getting phone calls from people asking if there is still room on the zoo floor.
Philadelphia zoo officials say they’re completely sold out however.
Forty-five thousand sign up for WYD only a few hours after Pope Francis - Meeting on the field of mercy...
Less than 24 hours after registration opened for
next year's World Youth Day (WYD), 45,000 people had already signed up.
The
first to register was Pope Francis himselfwho had previously announced that
the theme of the meeting would revolve around mercy.
According to the website's
managers, thus far there are 250 “macrogroups” and 300 volunteers signed up.
The countdown to the event is already surrounded by great enthusiasm. In exactly
one year — from 26 to 31 July 2016 — young people will meet in Krakow for the
31st WYD.
Twenty five years after its start, WYD will return
to Poland, the land of the Pontiff who created it. Even if Pope Wojtyła loved
to say that “it was the young people themselves who invented WYD”. In 1991 in
Częstochowa, a strong wind of faith was announced to the young people and from
them the faith blew beyond the iron curtain. The young Christians of eastern
and western Europe experienced the first large-scale encounter after the fall
of the Berlin Wall. Pope Wojtyła returned to his homeland for WYD which saw the
participation of more than one million people.
A true jubilee of young people will be celebrated on
a global level. Pope Francis recalled this at the Angelus and Cardinal
Stanisław Ryłko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, also
underlined it in a message published on the dicastery's website. The theme of
WYD is “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy” is part of the
extraordinary holy year which will begin on 8 December. WYD in Krakow will
complete a three part series of themes dedicated to the Beatitudes. The theme
in Rio in 2014 was “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven”. This year's theme for the 30th WYD on the diocesan level is
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God”.
SUNDAY IN RENO, NEVADA, THE INFAMOUS GAY-PRIDE RAINBOW FLAG REPLACED THE AMERICAN FLAG OVER CITY HALL.
The outrage was immediate. For very good reason, many see the gay pride flag as a symbol of oppression, hate and bullying. City leaders eventually backed down claiming that the fascist gay-pride flag was supposed to fly with the American flag, not replace the American flag. fter the uproar, the gay pride flag, a provocative symbol of anti-Christian hate and oppression, was taken down Sunday evening and replaced with the American flag. source
A GROUP UNVEILED
AN 8-FOOT-TALL BRONZE STATUE FEATURING A GOAT-HEADED SATAN IN DETROIT DURING A
GATHERING THAT WAS BILLED AS THE “LARGEST PUBLIC SATANIC CEREMONY IN HISTORY.”
But this is your hour, and the power of darkness. Luke 22:53 – DRV
EDITOR’S NOTE: It is no coincidence that Detroit, the American city with one of the largest Muslim populations, is now also home to the largest monument dedicated to Satan. I think the two go together quite nicely.
DETROIT – Last night the Satanic Temple‘s private event was open only to people with tickets, which sold for $25 each. Invitations to “The Unveiling” summoned guests to prepare for “a night of chaos, noise, and debauchery… Come dance with the Devil and experience history in the making.” The event location was not announced publicly and was known only to those with tickets.
The group said the bronze Baphomet monument, which weighs about one ton and has never been seen before in public, “is not only an unparalleled artistic triumph, but stands as a testament to plurality and the power of collective action.” The statue, which backed by an inverted pentagram and flanked by statues of two young children gazing up at the creature, shows Satan with horns, hooves, wings and a beard.
The group went on to say the unveiling event “will serve as a call-to-armsfrom which we’ll kick off our largest fight to date in the name of individual rights to free exercise against self-serving theocrats.”
Photography was strictly prohibited at the 18-and-older event unless, ofcourse, you’re a $75 VIP ticket holder. Those partygoers will have an exclusive opportunity to be photographed seated on the Baphomet monument. source
They’re
hoping Cardinal Timothy ‘Bravo’ Dolan hears their pleas…
Sign
of our Evil times: Meanwhile St. Pat’s soon to be most visited church by
pontiff outside Italy. $177 million restoration project in time for the Holy
Father’s arrival!
“It’s sad for a lot of people” said Father Patrick McCale. “For me, it’s
just kind of getting through it, encouraging people to have hope.”
St. Elizabeth is the only church in the archdiocese that offers masses in
sign langugage, and deaf worshipers come from far and wide to attend.
“That’s the most difficult of all — we’re dealing with people who don’t
understand why it’s happening, and I can’t explain why either,” McCale said.
The church is slated to close and merge with St. Monica’s. It’s one of 31
parishes affected by the major reorganization because of financial issues. The
archdiocese is hoping the move will lead to fewer but stronger churches.
“I’m depressed,” one woman at the Church of Holy Rosary in East Harlem
told 1010 WINS’ Roger Stern. “I love this church. This is like a family
church.”
“The decisions were made for us, not by us,” said another worshiper
there. “But we talked to each other and we prayed. And so the majority of us,
for now, will be going to Mount Carmel, and if it’s God’s will — we were doing
a lot of prayer — for us to come back, we will be here.”
Nearby at St. Lucy’s Church, Monsignor Oscar Aquino was saying goodbye to
his parishioners.
“We have to see brighter light because we always have to look at the
future,” he said.
At the Church of the Holy Agony in East Harlem, parishioners have been
fighting to keep the doors open. And at the Church of the Nativity on the Lower
East Side, they’ve appealed to the Vatican.
“We are working together,” said parishioner Mercedes Sanchez. “We are
being united, and thankfully we have a cannon lawyer who’s guiding us about
what we should be doing legally.”
They’re hoping Cardinal Timothy Dolan hears their pleas.
Dolan said he understand how difficult it is for parishioners, but said
the diocese will function more efficiently.
“What I hope they understand deep down — and I think they do — that as
important as a building is, that’s not the church, and that everything they
cherish there — the Mass, the sacrament, the prayer, the community, the works
of charity and love that they do — that can now go on in a new structure.”
HE’S HOPING THE PONTIFF WILL “FIND TIME TO LISTEN TO THE CHALLENGES FACED BY LGBT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE CATHOLIC AND WISH TO REMAIN A PART OF THE CHURCH…”
In line with the scheduled visit of Pope Francis to the United States in September this year, Rev. Warren Hall, the fired chaplain of Seton Hall University made a letter addressed to the Pope appealing that the pontiff give time to meet the LGBT Catholics in the U.S.
In his letter, which was also shared on Facebook, he asks the Pope to “find time to listen to the challenges faced by LGBT people, especially those who are Catholic and wish to remain a part of the Church they have grown up in, which they love, and yet which it seems is alienating them more and more”.
Rev. Hall was encouraged to write the Pope due to his recent firing as the chaplain of the Seton Hall University in New Jersey after publicly admitting that he is gay, in addition to his efforts against gay bullying. It was Newark Archbishop John Myers who called and fired him last May. According to the Archbishop, he decided on the grounds of Hall’s public support to the NOH8 campaign organized by the LGBT community after same-sex marriage was banned in California in 2008 after the passing of Proposition 8.
In an official statement coming from the Archbishop’s spokesman, they defended the decision to fire the chaplain from his post saying that “someone who labels himself or another in terms of sexual orientation or attraction contradicts what the church teaches”.
Rev. Hall defended himself arguing that he was not advocating against any church teachings. It was not his intention to advocate for gay Catholics neither does he wants his gender preference to become an issue.
Woe
unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Hall hopes to achieve two things in his letter. Primarily to show the plight of the LGBT community from the negative treatments of the Catholic Church and secondarily, he hopes to retain wonderful and good gay Catholics who are on the verge of leaving the church.
The case of Rev. Warren Hall is not the only instance where gays and lesbians are fired from their jobs because of their sexual orientation or beliefs. From the time same-sex marriage was legalized slowly across the United States, several teachers and parish ministers who belong to the third sex were sacked because of the contradicting views of the churches where they are a member of.
One of the most recent cases is the firing of a school staffer in a Philadelphia Catholic School. A student’s parent learned that the staffer married her lesbian partner prompting her to complain leading to the removal of the staffer from work. Philadelphia’s Archbishop Charles Chaput also defended the school’s decision saying that the school administrators “showed character and common sense”.
Rev. Warren Hall is not certain whether the Pope will respond to his letter or not although the pontiff is known to do surprises by replying to letters and even directly calling people.
After his dismissal from work, the gay priest received several offers from non-Catholic churches. But he refused and replied that “I’m Catholic, I’m not leaving”! Now unemployed, the priest solely depends on his savings and help from friends.
Brendan
Butler, from We are Church Ireland, Dr Richard O'Leary, from Faith in Marriage
Equality, and Jim O'Crowley, from Gay Catholic, at St. Patrick's Cathedral,
Armagh.
Pro-sodomite faith groups have met Dr Eamon Martin, the Catholic Archbishop of
Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.
The meeting with the Archbishop was requested by Faith in Marriage
Equality (FiME) during the recent referendum campaign on same sex marriage. The
meeting took place at the Archbishop's residence in Armagh, on Wednesday, July
22.
Dr Richard O'Leary of Faith in Marriage Equality said “We believe it is a
positive step to open dialogue with the Catholic Church as a contribution to
the 'reality check' signaled by the Church after the vote for civil marriage
equality.”
He was referring to the “reality check” Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid
Martin recommended to the Catholic Church following the success of the Yes
campaign in the marriage equality referendum on May 22.
O’Leary continued “We were positively received by Archbishop Martin who
said he was committed to continuing dialogue and that he was particularly
concerned about the pastoral care of gay persons”.
Jim O'Crowley, a gay Catholic, shared with Archbishop Martin the
experiences and views of gay Catholics and their families.
The delegation had sent in advance to the Archbishop, a copy of “To have
and to Hold”: stories and reflections of LGBT people their families and
friends” (edited by Patricia Devlin and Brian Glennon). Archbishop Martin said
that he found it helpful to read this book and also to listen to accounts by
gay Catholics.
Dr O'Leary impressed on the Archbishop that the absence of affirmation of
gay persons by the Churches contributes to the raised rate of suicide.
Brendan Butler, of We are Church Ireland, referred to the forthcoming
Synod of Bishops in Rome in October, at which Archbishop Eamon Martin and
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will represent the Irish bishops. Butler highlighted
paragraph 130 of the agenda of the Synod titled |Pastoral Attention towards
Persons with Homosexual Tendencies.”
Butler explained to the Archbishop “if the Catholic Church is to regain
credibility not only with the gay and lesbian community but also with the wider
Catholic community then existing Catholic teaching needs to change.”
He drew attention to paragraph three of the “Letter to the Bishops of the
Catholic Church on the pastoral care of homosexual persons” (CDF,1986) as
morally offensive as it describes “homosexual orientation as an objective
disorder and ordered towards an intrinsic moral evil.”
The pro-gay faith delegation requested Archbishop Martin to consider this
issue during his discussions at the Synod of Bishops in Rome. Archbishop Martin said that he was open to receiving additional material from We Are
Church Ireland on this subject.
When in modern times the world began to turn its
back on God, did it really think that he would not notice or that he would not
care? Today’s madness is reaching a climax in which more and more souls must be
realizing that for him to step in has become an absolute necessity, and that it
will be a great act of mercy. However, in order not to lose heart in the
meantime, let us see how even in Old Testament times the Psalmist urged God to
step in, without doubting for a moment in his power to do so. The Psalms are a
divinely inspired school of prayer for all time, and they apply just as much to
the New Testament as to the Old. Here is Psalm 73 (74, modern numbering):—
A. THE ANXIETY [1] O God, why hast thou cast us off
unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture? [2]
Remember thy congregation (Catholics) which thou hast possessed from the
beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: Mount Sion
(the Catholic Church) in which thou hast dwelt. [3] Lift up thy hands against
their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the
sanctuary (e.g. of the Novus Ordo). [4] And they that hate thee have made their
boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity (e.g. liturgy). They have set up their
ensigns for signs, [5] And they knew not (God) both in the going out and on the
highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees, [6] they have cut down at once
the gates of they solemnity, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.
[7] They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place
of thy name on the earth. [8] They said in their heart, the whole kindred of
them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God (Catholic
Feast-days) from the land. [9] Our signs we have not seen, there is now no
prophet: and God will know us no more. [10] How long, O God, shall the enemy
reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever? [11] Why dost thou
turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?
B. THE TRUST [12] But God is our king before ages:
he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. [13] Thou by thy strength
didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the
waters. [14] Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to
be meat for the people of the Ethiopians. [15] Thou hast broken up the
fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers. [16] Thine is
the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the dawn and the sun. [17] Thou
hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed
by thee.
C. THE PLEA [18] Remember this, the enemy hath
reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name. [19] Deliver
not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee (Catholics keeping the Faith):
and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor. [20] Have regard to thy
covenant (the Catholic Church): for they that are the obscure of the earth
(humble Catholics) have been filled with dwellings of iniquity (e.g. the New
World Order). [21] Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor
and needy shall praise thy name. [22] Arise, O God, judge thy own cause:
remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all day
long. [23] Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate
thee is continually rising.
God will at last rescue his Church, of course, But Catholics must cry out, till they are hoarse.
Last week’s “Comments” went so far as to suggest that to get a handle on the liberal mentality is a good way to keep the Faith today. Seeing how liberalism dissolves the Truth, one understands how it is undermining the Faith and destroying the Church. At the same time seeing how it corrupts minds, one understands how today’s churchmen are “diabolically disoriented” without necessarily being fully aware of how they are destroying the Church. Thus one need be neither liberal nor sedevacantist. So let us look at another classic text of Archbishop Lefebvre where he examines “The Catholic Liberal Mentality” in Chapter XVI of They Have Uncrowned Him:—
“A sickness of the mind. ‘Rather than a confusion of mind, liberal Catholicism is a sickness of the mind’ (Fr. A. Roussel in his book Liberalism and Catholicism): the mind is unable simply to rest in the truth. It can venture no statement without thinking immediately of the counter-statement, which it feels equally obliged to make. Pope Paul VI was a classic example of such a split mind, of a two-faced being – it could even be read physically on his features – perpetually tossed between two contradictory positions and driven by a balancing movement, swinging regularly between Tradition and novelty – would some people call it intellectual schizophrenia?
“I think that Fr Clérissac saw deepest into the nature of this sickness. It is ‘a lack of integrity of the mind’ ( Mystery of the Church, Chapter VII). It is a mind ‘lacking trust in the truth . . . . When liberalism prevails, this lack of integrity in the mind shows psychologically in two clear characteristics: liberals are malleable and anxious: malleable, because they too easily take on the state of mind of those around them; anxious, because for fear of clashing with different states of mind they are continually concerned to justify themselves; they seem to suffer themselves from the doubts they are fighting against; they do not have enough confidence in the truth; they are too concerned to be justifying their position, demonstrating or adapting or even apologizing.’
“Too concerned to be in harmony with the world, to be apologizing! That is so well said: they want to apologize for the whole past of the Church, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and so on. When it comes to justifying and demonstrating, they go about it very timidly, especially when the rights of Jesus Christ are involved, but when it comes to adapting to the world, they go at it, that is their basic principle. They start out from what they consider to be a practical principle, for them an undeniable fact, namely that the Church cannot be understood in the actual surroundings where it has to fulfill its divine mission without its getting in harmony with them.”
Since the time of Fr Clérissac and of Archbishop Lefebvre, the dissolution of minds and hearts by liberalism has only made great advances. In the 21st century, there are even fewer traces left of yesteryear’s framework of objective truth and objective morality than there were in the 20th century. This being so, for the Church to adapt to its surroundings becomes more and more deadly for Catholic Faith and morals, which are nothing if not objective. How we have had to suffer from a mind continually alternating statements with counter-statements, continually anxious to win over both of two parties completely opposed to one another, to reconcile irreconcilables, lacking not only confidence in the truth but even, as it seems, any knowledge of the truth, were it not that this mind can do such a good imitation of the truth. Such a mind used to be said to belong to a “liar.” Today?
We can only cry out, like the Psalmist: Lord, your own Catholics have become a mockery to non-Catholics. For your own honor and glory, hasten to our rescue!
In this video, Mary Gatter, the Medical director at Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley in Calfiornia, discusses selling aborted baby body parts with undercover investigators posing as officials with a biotech company that acts as a middleman to sell aborted baby body parts to universities and other places that conduct such research. Gatter is a senior official within Planned Parenthood and is President of the Medical Directors’ Council, the central committee of all Planned Parenthood affiliate medical directors.
Gatter discusses the pricing of aborted baby body parts — telling the biotech company officials that the prices for such things as a baby’s liver, head or heart are negotiable. She also tells the officials that she could talk with the Planned Parenthood abortion practitioners to potentially alter the abortion procedure to kill the baby in a way that would best preserve those body parts after the unborn child is killed in the abortion.
(FULL UNEDITED VIDEO AT BOTTOM OF THIS POST)
The video shows Gatter haggling over payments for intact fetal specimens and offering to use a “less crunchy technique” to get more intact body parts.
Actors posing as buyers ask Gatter, “What would you expect for intact [fetal] tissue?
“Well, why don’t you start by telling me what you’re used to paying!” Gatter replies.
Gatter continues: “You know, in negotiations whoever throws out the figure first is at a loss, right?” She explains, “I just don’t want to lowball,” before suggesting, “$75 a specimen.”
Gatter twice recites Planned Parenthood messaging on fetal tissue collection, “We’re not in it for the money,” and “The money is not the important thing,” but she immediately qualifies each statement with, respectively, “But what were you thinking of?” and, “But it has to be big enough that it’s worthwhile for me.”
Gatter also admits that in prior fetal tissue deals, Planned Parenthood received payment in spite of incurring no cost: “It was logistically very easy for us, we didn’t have to do anything. So there was compensation for this.” She accepts a higher price of $100 per specimen understanding that it will be only for high-quality fetal organs: “Now, this is for tissue that you actually take, not just tissue that someone volunteers and you can’t find anything, right?”
By the lunch’s end, Gatter suggests $100 per specimen is not enough and concludes, “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. I want a Lamborghini.”
Gatter also suggests modifying the abortion procedure to get more intact fetuses: “I wouldn’t object to asking Ian, who’s our surgeon who does the cases, to use an IPAS [manual vacuum aspirator] at that gestational age in order to increase the odds that he’s going to get an intact specimen.”
Gatter seems aware this violates rules governing tissue collection, but disregards them: “To me, that’s kind of a specious little argument.” Federal law requires that no alteration in the timing or method of abortion be done for the purposes of fetal tissue collection (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).
The video, like last week’s featuring Dr. Nucatola, was produced by The Center for Medical Progress and is part of CMP’s nearly 3-year-long investigative journalism study, “Human Capital.”
CMP’s Project Lead David Daleiden notes, “Planned Parenthood’s top leadership admits they harvest aborted baby parts and receive payments for this. Planned Parenthood’s only denial is that they make money off of baby parts, but that is a desperate lie that becomes more and more untenable as CMP reveals Planned Parenthood’s business operations and statements that prove otherwise.”
Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, who was also involved in putting the investigative expose’ video together told LifeNews that the refutes Cecile Richards’ claim that there is no profit for Planned Parenthood and raises further questions about the unethical altering of procedures to one “less crunchy.”
“The statements in the Gatter video prove that Cecile Richards flat-out lied when she said that Planned Parenthood does not profit in any way from the sale of aborted baby parts. It takes a lot of baby livers to buy a Lamborghini,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “And now it also appears that Planned Parenthood is also lying to women, altering their procedures in order to get body parts that can be sold for profit. These represent serious legal and ethical breeches for which Planned Parenthood must be held accountable.”
In the first video, as LifeNews reported, new undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, describing how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted unborn children and admitting she uses partial-birth abortions to supply intact body parts. Nucatola is an Obama administration adviser.
In the video, Nucatola is at a business lunch with actors posing as buyers from a human biologics company. As head of PPFA’s Medical Services department, Nucatola has overseen medical practice at all Planned Parenthood locations since 2009. She also trains new Planned Parenthood abortion doctors and performs abortions herself at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles up to 24 weeks.
Nucatola admits that Planned Parenthood charges per-specimen for baby body parts, uses pseudo-partial-birth abortion procedures in order to get salable parts, and is aware of their own liability for doing so and takes steps to cover it up.
In the first video, Nucatola admits that Planned Parenthood charges per-specimen for baby body parts, uses illegal partial-birth abortion procedures in order to get salable parts, and is aware of their own liability for doing so and takes steps to cover it up.
The footage shockingly depicts the top medical official at the Planned Parenthood corporation munching on her salad while she discusses the sale of body parts of unborn children victimized by abortions. She brazenly describes how the heads of unborn babies killed in abortions command top dollar.
The buyers ask Nucatola, “How much of a difference can that actually make, if you know kind of what’s expected, or what we need?”
“It makes a huge difference,” Nucatola replies. “I’d say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps. The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is calvarium. Calvarium—the head—is basically the biggest part.”
Nucatola explains, “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”
“And with the calvarium, in general, some people will actually try to change the presentation so that it’s not vertex,” she continues. “So if you do it starting from the breech presentation, there’s dilation that happens as the case goes on, and often, the last step, you can evacuate an intact calvarium at the end.”
Dr. Nucatola said, “You’re just kind of cognizant of where you put your graspers, you try to intentionally go above and below the thorax, so that, you know, we’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m going to basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”
The abortionist also explains that Planned Parenthood charges per-specimen for baby body parts and is aware of their own liability for doing so. When asked about a price, she said, “I would say it’s probably anywhere from $30 to $100, depending on the facility and what’s involved.” Unbelievably, she admits that some body parts, such as livers and heads, are much more popular and go for a higher price than other specimen.
