StemExpress Website Drops References to ‘Financial Profits’ for Tissue Harvesting

Published August 31, 2015 11:00am ET



StemExpress is the bio-medical company featured in a number of the undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress in connection with its Planned Parenthood exposé on fetal organ and tissue harvesting. StemExpress made several changes to its website last week, some cosmetic but others more substantial. One significant change was to remove references to “financial profits” available to clinics who provide “raw materials”, the term StemExpress uses for blood and tissue “usually discarded during procedures,” including abortions. The change came during the same week the Center for Medical Progress released a new video showing the CEO of StemExpress acknowledging that a clinic’s relationship with StemExpress can be “financially beneficial.

Until recently, StemExpress’s page on “Partnerships” appears as followed (via the Internet Archive):

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