Two former Planned Parenthood employees described in detail the abortions they witnessed and what employees did afterward with the remains in two new videos released Tuesday.
Live Action, a pro-life organization, released the videos of interviews with former Storm Lake, Iowa facility manager Sue Thayer and former Indianapolis nurse Marianne Anderson. Thayer described seeing the remains of twins after an abortion procedure and Anderson described the "callousness" of two abortionists who sifted through the remains to make sure all of the parts were retrieved.
Thayer explained how she watched an abortion in her facility and saw three arms in a bowl afterward. A co-worker told her that twins had just been aborted. Thayer asked the co-worker if they ever tell the women having the abortions if they had twins.
"No, it usually just upsets them," the co-worker responded.
Thayer described the disposal of the remains.
"There's this big, white porcelain sink, and they would dump it in there, rinse it, put the bowl back to use next time, and hit the plunger and it would flush, kind of like a toilet," she said. "I just remember standing there thinking, 'All those babies are in the Des Moines sewer system.'"
Thayer also said they would later put the remains in bags, tie them off, and put them in a freezer.
"I remember kind of thinking, 'I wonder what they do with those,' because I thought if there's a buck to be made, they will sell those," she said.
Anderson went into detail about abortionists she worked with who seemed to enjoy going through the remains after the abortions were finished.
"There was one doctor that would sit there and he would sometimes talk to this, saying, I'll never forget him saying, 'Now, where's your little arm? I didn't see your, I'm missing this arm?' And he would sift through it trying to find the pieces," Anderson recalled.
"I remember him saying, 'Oh, there you are! Now where's the head and where's this?'" she added.
Anderson then told the story of a doctor who would sift through the remains and call the experience "cool."
"He would really seem to get into it," Anderson said.
Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, criticized Planned Parenthood in a statement after the videos were released.
"The science is clear: these preborn children are growing, developing human beings who have beating hearts at just three and a half weeks old," Rose said. "Taking their lives is the opposite of health care. Despite the lies they tell their clients, Planned Parenthood knows they aren't aborting clumps of cells, but innocent little human beings."