Abortionist in leaked tape aborted baby same age as her own preborn child

There is violence in abortion, especially in second trimester procedures… Of course, acknowledging the violence of abortion risks admitting that the stereotypes that anti-abortion forces hold of us are true – that we are butchers, etc.

Leaked undercover video footage from the Center for Medical Progress, received this week by GotNews.com and put online by a hacker, shows an undercover CMP representative speaking with a Michigan Planned Parenthood abortion doctor about harvesting baby body parts for research. This abortionist, Lisa Harris, once described doing a late-term abortion while pregnant, has admitted that abortion procedures are violent (and that abortion victims really do look like pro-lifers’ photos), and has said that re-assembling fetal body parts often elicits “feelings of awe” in abortionists.

Harris, described by the pro-abortion blog RH Reality Check as a Assistant Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Studies at University of Michigan. Harris is also co-medical director of Planned Parenthood of Mid and South Michigan, and the Director of University of Michigan’s Fellowship in Family Planning. She is also a member of the board of directors for the Reproductive Health Technologies Partnership.

In a 2008 paper entitled, “Second Trimester Abortion Provision: Breaking the Silence and Changing the weeks Discourse,” Harris describes performing an abortion on a preborn baby at 18 weeks while she herself was 18 weeks pregnant. Harris writes:

In the same paper, Harris later writes about a 23 week abortion she performed and how she had to re-assemble the parts of the baby:

After she dismembered this 23-week preborn baby, she “rushed upstairs to take overnight call on labour and delivery.”

Harris’s words conjure up pictures of a mad serial killer who can repeatedly kill without feelings of empathy for her victims. But in the leaked CMP video, you would get a completely different sense – the sense that Harris is a decent person who simply cares for the health of women. That is, if you didn’t listen to her own words about what Harris does to these children:

Harris tells the undercover CMP investigator that she performs abortion up to “19 and 6” meaning 19 weeks, 6 days. She also tells CMP that she has been involved in fetal tissue research in the past with, “independent / individual researchers” who needed either fetal tissue or organs.

Harris, who asked in her paper mentioned above, “What normal person does this kind of work?“ told CMP that all “research projects” at the Planned Parenthood affiliate she is with go through their VP of medical services. She also says that, “All research projects pay – pay for the effort but there’s never been like a per specimen fee.”

Harris appears distracted during the conversation but made it clear to CMP that she was most concerned about the “research regulations” that “get in the way.” She said her interest in using aborted children for research was that women be allowed to “feel good” about their abortions.

Despite this, Harris once admitted that there is violence in an abortion, even suggesting that the label of abortionists as “butchers” might be accurate:

To date, the Center for Medical Progress’s videos have exposed the horrific body parts harvesting operation of several Planned Parenthood affiliates, prompting some members of Congress to question their $528 million in annual taxpayer funding.