A measure to prohibit the sale of fetal body parts in Kentucky easily won approval Wednesday in the state Senate. The sale of fetal body parts is already prohibited by federal law.
A Houston grand jury this week cleared a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas and instead indicted the undercover videographers who leveled charges that the organization sold organs of aborted fetuses. Bill Sponsor Max Wise says federal prohibitions are not enough. “The Commonwealth should not tolerate the callus, dehumanizing notion that organs of deceased pre-born infants can be exchanged for money for any purpose,” said Wise.
The legislation makes it a class C felony to sell any portion of a fetus as the subject of an induced abortion. Louisville Senator Perry Clark voted no. Clark said selling fetal body parts is not an issue in Kentucky. “We have not sold baby parts," Clark said. "That has not gone on in Kentucky. It’s not going on, hasn’t gone on in the past, has not gone on in the future, and it’s against federal law.”?
The measure emerged from the senate on a 36 to 2 vote and now heads to the House.
