Rep. Martha Roby is calling for an investigation into Planned Parenthood in the wake of a video that shows one of the organization's executives discussing the transfer of tissue from aborted fetuses.

The undercover video, filmed in June 2014 by the Center for Medical Progress, shows Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, at a lunch meeting with two people claiming to be with a tissue donation center. The video includes Nucatola discussing in graphic detail how abortions can best be performed to preserve certain body parts.

"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," Nucatola said in the video.

Roby, R-Montgomery, called the comments "horrifying."

"The casual, callous way (Nucatola) details how babies can be killed in such a way that their tiny hearts, lungs and livers can be taken and sold for profit is simply horrifying," Roby said during a Tuesday speech on the House floor.

"It is honestly hard to believe a human being could bring themselves to believe this is OK," she added.

U.S. law prohibits the purchase or sale of human fetal tissue. Altering the timing or method of an abortion to gain tissue for research is also illegal.

Planned Parenthood issued a statement about the video Tuesday night in which they confirmed it was Nucatola in the video but claimed it had been edited. The organization also denied it receives any financial benefit from the donation.

"At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does--with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards," Planned Parenthood spokesman Eric Ferrero said. "In some instances, actual costs, such as the cost to transport tissue to leading research centers, are reimbursed, which is standard across the medical field."

Roby: Admissions warrant investigation

Roby said the admissions in the video warrant an investigation into Planned Parenthood. She said it also warrants greater discussion into the issue of abortion.

"This is a moment that - as a nation- we have to ask ourselves, 'who are we? Are we really going to tolerate this inhumanity? Are we going to look the other way while babies are brutally killed and organs harvested for profit," she said. "These aren't specimens! These are babies for goodness' sake!"