While under investigation, @PPFA lied to Congress and said @PPGulfCoast had "rebuffed" a proposal to sell fetal livers for $750 each.

But under oath, @PPGulfCoast contradicted @PPFA and testified they "wanted to move forward with it".

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42 U.S. Code 289g-2 broadly prohibits selling fetal tissue for any amount of money, or "valuable consideration."

"Valuable consideration" means the Quid Pro Quo in an exchange. It's not strictly about profit or reimbursement, it's about what the transaction is incentivizing:

Newly unsealed emails from @PPMarMonte show how they switched from selling body parts to Advanced Bioscience Resources and started selling to @StemExpress instead, because StemExpress offered to come to more clinics more often to harvest specimens, meaning larger payments.

Federal law only permits reasonable reimbursement of a specific group of tasks, that PP did not do, when donating fetal tissue for free.

@StemExpress paid @PPMarMonte solely based on the number of specimens @StemExpress harvested and "determined in the clinic to be usable"

$65 per "usable" body part might not seem like a lot, although people go to jail for selling drugs for less. But @PPMarMonte does 17,000 abortions a year, so those numbers can add up quickly.

Clinic owners told us undercover they were looking at $250k/year from @StemExpress