On July 14, the Center for Medical Progress released a covert video showing an employee of America’s largest abortion provider describing how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted fetuses.
Since then, eight additional videos have been released, each arguably more gruesome than the last.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest admitted during a briefing on Friday that he has yet to watch any of the Planned Parenthood videos:
“I have certainly seen the coverage of the videos and I’ve seen some of the snippets that have been shown on television, but I have not watched the videos in their entirety," said Earnest. "I know that there have been hours that have been released."
"My guess is that the forensic study that Planned Parenthood took probably took quite some time,” he added.
So he supports or trusts their findings?
The "forensic study" Earnest referred to was an analysis that Planned Parenthood itself commissioned.
Planned Parenthood hired Fusion GPS, a Washington-based research and corporate intelligence company, to study the Center for Medical Progress videos. Their findings were released to Congress on Thursday, Aug. 27, alleging that the videos were highly doctored — "that they do not present a complete or accurate record of the events they purport to depict."
In response, the head of CMP, David Daleiden, said in a statement,
“Planned Parenthood’s desperate, 11th-hour attempt to pay their hand-picked ‘experts’ to distract from the crimes documented on video is a complete failure.”
He added, “The absence of bathroom breaks and waiting periods between meetings does not change the hours of dialogue with top-level Planned Parenthood executives eager to manipulate abortion procedures to get high-quality baby parts for financially profitable sale.”