Part I - When Abortion and Human Trafficking Meet
Often in the pro-life movement we think of abortion as an isolated thing. We see it as the debate between those who know life begins at conception and those who think abortion is choice, but the depths of this industry lead so much further into darkness than we can imagine. Recently, a disturbing but substantiated piece of research was presented to me. So alarming were the findings that I found my cries for mercy for our nation more desperate than ever.
Vicki Evans, Respect Life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco's Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns wrote her thesis last year on the side of the abortion industry pro-aborts don’t want us to discuss: The financial side. I encourage you to take time to actually read a PDF of this research. I’ve read it. It’s credible and it’s terrifying.
Fetal research is a profitable industry that goes far beyond the abortion clinics themselves. While we know that Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics profit nicely off abortions, what happens when those babies are killed is more alarming. Technically, fetuses are reported to be disposed of as organic medical waste, but Evans points out that that doesn’t always happen and cites that “Stericycle, the largest medical waste disposal company in the country, refuses to dispose of fetal remains due to a clause in their drivers’ labor contract that allows the drivers to refuse to accept fetal waste. Typically, cremation of the remains takes place or they are released into the sewage system” (27).
Evans goes on to cite a study by Life Dynamics regarding wholesaling fetuses:
Three participants are commonly involved---the “seller,” the “buyer,” and the “wholesaler.” The wholesaler (or middleman) enters into a financial agreement with an abortion clinic (the seller) to pay a monthly “site-fee”, comparable to rent, to the clinic. In exchange, the wholesaler is allowed to position a retrieval agent inside the clinic, where he is given access to the dead fetuses and a workspace to harvest their parts. (27)
