Smith was the original author of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Bill in 1995, the bill the Senate is considering today.
Current law prohibits making a profit from the sale of aborted children.
However, loopholes in this law allow wholesalers to circumvent it. Planned Parenthood, the harvesters and research companies get around the law by saying the parts are donated, Smith said on the Senate floor. Unfortunately, the dirty little secret is that large amounts of cash are changing hands. Abortion clinics and the wholesalers are making a killing literally off the sale of human baby parts. According to Smith, one marketer of fetal body parts has admitted to trying to get abortion clinics to alter their procedures to get better tissue, which is a violation of federal law.