November 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Among the grisly details revealed about the abortion industry in the ongoing Center for Medical Progress (CMP) trial in San Francisco is the fact that abortionists intentionally rip out hearts from babies while they’re still beating.

CMP has been locked in legal battles with Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation (NAF) since the summer of 2015, when their undercover videos revealed abortion industry insiders expressing interest in profiting off organs from aborted babies, which is illegal. The abortion groups accuse the pro-life investigators of breaking California privacy laws, and obtained a gag order against the release of additional videos.

Pro-life investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt are currently on trial in the case, which CMP welcomes as an opportunity to force abortionists and other industry figures to take the stand and answer questions about CMP’s revelations, under penalty of perjury.

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In September, Dr. Theresa Deisher of Stanford University School of Medicine testified that “some of the babies had to have beating hearts when they were harvested.”

“Once the heart goes into contraction, you can’t get it to come out of that position,” she explained, so it “has to be beating and be arrested in a relaxed position” by perfusing it with a potassium solution. Then it can be restarted electrically after transportation.

Deisher, who founded a company in Seattle working on ethical alternatives to “human exploitation in medical research,” called this detail the “most horrific thing” about the baby-parts scandal, in her view.

“Basically, to cut through what that means, it means that the baby hearts that are being sold to biomedical companies ... have to be harvested from the chest of living babies,” LifeSiteNews’ Jonathon Van Maren said during this week’s episode of his show. “Their hearts have to be cut out while they're beating. This is a monumental barbarism.”

“This is a discussion happening in open court right now in San Francisco,” he continued. “And what have you heard about this? This should be breaking news on every TV network. It should be on the front page of every newspaper. And you're hearing almost nothing.”

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