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  • UPDATE: Texas Poised To Close Abortion Trafficking Loophole Exposed by Abortion Free New Mexico

    UPDATE: Texas Poised To Close Abortion Trafficking Loophole Exposed by Abortion Free New Mexico

    By Bud Shaver,
    ​
    Albuquerque, New Mexico- ​Abortion Free New Mexico’s Project Weak Link investigation into the waste hauler, Biocycle/Oncore Technologies is bearing fruit in the state of Texas. The local Albuquerque Planned Parenthood surgical center was utilizing this company that would show up weekly to their facility to take aborted babies away for disposal. Tara discovered their vehicle wasn’t properly labeled but that was only the beginning of their numerous violations. Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn is leading the charge in Texas, trying to put a stop to this practice because of what our initial investigation uncovered.

    ​See the related articles below and stay tuned for more updates.In response to these encouraging developments, Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement,

    Abortion Free New Mexico fully supports the measures that Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn is pursuing in Texas to encourage the Texas legislature to close the abortion trafficking of aborted babies loophole and their proactive measures in Amarillo, TX to become a Sanctuary City for the Unborn, while also addressing the practice of transporting and disposing of babies killed by elective abortions as well as the abortion trafficking of Amarillo residents into pro-abortion states like New Mexico.” 

    Here is the full report published by Live Action.

    Abortion business ‘waste’ hauled into Texas from across America for disposal

    By Tayte Ward | March 13, 2024 (Guest writer at Live Action)

    In March of 2021, an unmarked vehicle with Texas license plates was seen receiving material on a weekly basis from a Planned Parenthood in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tara Shaver, a sidewalk counselor with Abortion Free New Mexico, noticed this and contacted the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) with photo evidence of large red shipping containers being placed in the vehicle.

    ​Shaver noted state administrative codes require commercial haulers (of infectious waste) to

    conspicuously label all solid waste collection vehicles with the company, municipality, or county department name,” as well as “conspicuously label all solid waste collection vehicles with the environment department registration number.”

    These violations prompted NMED to investigate. Daniel R. Galasso, the Solid Waste Bureau (SWB) Enforcement Officer, met with Amy Dickson, Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. She supplied the SWB with 17 special waste manifests, showing the company Oncore Technology, LLC, received and hauled what was deemed as “infectious waste” from the abortion facility for a brief period of time. Oncore, located in Grand Prairie, Texas, was found to be an unregistered commercial hauler.

    (Oncore facility sign)

    Thomas Simmons, the Operations Manager of Oncore Technology, told Galasso in August of 2021 that Oncore Health Solutions and BioCycle operated in conjunction for hauling purposes for Oncore Technology, LLC. SWB records determined Oncore Health Solutions was the transporter arriving at the New Mexico clinic; Oncore Health Solutions was also not a registered commercial hauler. These manifests used the registration number for a registered commercial hauler, BioCycle, Inc., located in Amarillo, Texas. As a result of the violations, the New Mexico Environment Department fined Oncore Technology $300 — which was less than the price of the abortion pill regimen administered by the Planned Parenthood in Albuquerque during the time of this investigation.
    ​
    In 2015, prior to abortion being outlawed in Texas, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Inc., located in Houston, released a response to the Department of Health and Hospitals regarding a video seeming to verify the taking part in illegal fetal tissue sales from abortions, which Planned Parenthood denied. In this response, the president and CEO Melaney A. Linton stated products of abortion are defined as “pathological waste” under Texas law.

    ​Linton stated, 

    [Planned Parenthood Center for Choice (PPCFC)] contracts with a company to dispose of its Special Waste from Health Care-Related Facilities, which includes Pathological Waste from PPCFC… PPCFC contracts with Oncore Technology, LLC for the disposal of Special Waste from Health Care-Related Facilities, including Pathological Waste. Oncore’s address is 2613 Skyway Dr. Grand Prairie, TX 75052.” 

    As a result of how Planned Parenthood and others were treating the remains of unborn children as “pathological waste,” the Texas legislature passed a fetal burial bill known as Senate Bill 8 (2017). That bill clarified that

    Embryonic and fetal tissue remains are not pathological waste under state law” and required health care facilities within the State of Texas that provide “health or medical care to a pregnant woman” to “dispose of embryonic and fetal tissue remains that are passed or delivered at the facility by: (1) interment; (2) cremation; (3) incineration followed by interment; or (4) steam disinfection followed by interment.” The law was clear to say, “The ashes resulting from the cremation or incineration of embryonic and fetal tissue remains: (1) may be interred or scattered in any manner as authorized by law for human remains; and (2) may not be placed in a landfill.”

    (BioCycle facility sign)

    On Saturday, February 24th, 2024, an employee who was leaving BioCycle Healthcare Waste Management Services in Amarillo, Texas, stopped to answer some questions from a couple of curious bystanders outside of the facility’s gated entrance. One of those bystanders was Mark Lee Dickson, a director with Right to Life of East Texas and the founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative. 

    Dickson asked the employee if the company ever picked up from Planned Parenthood. The employee shared with Dickson that he was picking up from a Planned Parenthood in Wichita, Kansas — over six hours away.

    When asked if he picked up from any abortion facilities outside of Wichita, Kansas, the employee answered,

    That’s the only one that I know about off the top of my head because it’s the one that I do because I’m just a driver here. So there’s probably more but I just don’t know off the top of my head.”

    When asked how often his company picked up from the Wichita abortion facility, the driver responded, 

    ​Every month. Once a month.”

    Upon being asked if the Amarillo facility was disposal or storage, the driver answered,

    It’s both. We store it, and then we dispose of it as well.” ​

    BioCycle/Oncore Technology has a broad service range, providing business to several states, including Arizona, Arkansas, California, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

    Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, said, 

    I find it utterly demonic that a waste management company in Amarillo, Texas, would be doing business with an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas.”

    Abortion Free New Mexico missionary Tara Shaver, who filed the initial BioCycle complaint in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shared,

     Abortion Free New Mexico firmly believes that biohazard waste hauling and disposal companies are the weak link of the abortion industry. These companies make it possible for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers across the nation to kill innocent unborn babies and then inhumanely discard their bodies as biohazard waste.” 

    Shaver continued,

    The fact that abortion is illegal in Texas but aborted babies from states including New Mexico can be disposed of, in a pro-life state like Texas, by BioCycle Healthcare Waste Management Services is egregious.” ​

    Texas medical waste management facility types include medical waste autoclave facility, medical waste processor, incinerator, and medical waste transfer station. BioCycle is a medical waste autoclave facility. According to BioCycle’s website

    , the process of disposal of medical waste begins by weighing containers on an industrial scale. Then, waste-filled carts are loaded into the autoclave, a device used to sterilize the waste. This process is followed by unloading the materials into a shredder and then placing the shredded waste into a compactor. It is unknown how waste is ultimately disposed of. 

    Currently, there are no Texas laws prohibiting the hauling of fetal remains into Texas and disposing of those remains.

    In 2017, Texas passed a fetal burial law,”

    said Mark Lee Dickson. ​

    Unfortunately, that law has a massive loophole. While state law addresses the disposal of remains of unborn children from medical facilities within the state of Texas in §697.004 of the Health and Safety Code, state law does not address: (1) the transportation of the remains of unborn children who have been killed by an elective abortion from an abortion provider in another state, and (2) the disposal of the remains of an unborn child killed by an elective abortion outside the State of Texas at a waste management facility inside the State of Texas.”

    Dickson concluded,

    BioCycle/Oncore Technology/Oncore Health Solutions have a history of working with baby-murdering cartels across our nation and nothing in the laws of Texas stops them from continuing to have that history of ‘cleaning up’ for the baby murdering industry. In one report, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc. in California reported giving Oncore Technology, LLC $166,255 for medical services. Organizations like Oncore Technology must stop assisting the baby killers in this work.”

    Representative Dustin Burrows, who cosponsored Senate Bill 8 (2017), shared,

     “Texas needs to close the loophole; however, Amarillo has the power to close it now.”

    Burrows stressed the importance of cities like Amarillo doing their part to address this issue now instead of waiting for over 18 months for a State law to take effect, or in case the Texas legislature fails to pass a bill addressing this loophole.

    Citizens of Amarillo are attempting to close this loophole and other loopholes through a Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Ordinance and their city’s citizen initiative petition process allowed for by their city charter. Volunteers have been working to gather a sufficient number of residents’ signatures in support of the Amarillo Initiative to petition the Amarillo City Council. If they collect enough signatures and the measure is passed by a vote of the city council or the citizens of Amarillo, BioCycle will be forced to cease its interactions with out-of-state abortion facilities. 

    RELATED:Amarillo by Morning: Abortion Clinic “Waste” Hauled into Texas City for Disposal

    Read all of our Project Weak Link Reports:

  • BREAKING: Babies Aborted In New Mexico Transported To Texas For Disposal

    BREAKING: Babies Aborted In New Mexico Transported To Texas For Disposal

    By Bud Shaver
    ​
    ​Albuquerque, New Mexico– Abortion Free New Mexico’s latest investigation has uncovered that Oncore Health Solutions (a conglomerate of Oncore Technology LLC and BioCycle Inc.) is transporting babies that are aborted in New Mexico across state lines to be disposed of as biohazard waste in the state of Texas. These disposal facilities are located in Amarillo and Grand Prairie, TX. 

    Due to the recent SCOTUS decision, Texas law now bans babies from being aborted. However, no law currently exists preventing aborted babies from the neighboring state of New Mexico from being transported to Texas and disposed of as, “biohazard waste”. 

    “The fact that babies can’t be killed in Texas but aborted babies from New Mexico can be disposed of as biohazard waste in Texas by companies like Oncore/BioCycle must be remedied by the Texas legislature,” stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.

    This alarming discovery has come after months of documentation and several complaints with the New Mexico Environment Department.

    In November 2020, local sidewalk advocates began sending Abortion Free New Mexico pictures of an unmarked waste hauler vehicle that routinely picked up the biohazard waste containers full of aborted babies that were killed at the Planned Parenthood surgical center in Albuquerque. Planned Parenthood performs abortions up to 19.6 weeks of pregnancy.

    Abortion Free New Mexico filed a complaint with the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) based on the statute, NMAC 20.9.5.14 (A) (7) and (8) which, requires commercial haulers of infectious waste to:

    • (7) conspicuously label all solid waste collection vehicles with the company,municipality, or county department name;
    • (8) conspicuously label all solid waste collection vehicles with the environment department registration number.

    After a six month investigation the NMED determined that the company servicing Planned Parenthood was, “Oncore Technology LLC”, a waste hauler with an expired registration as of March 2019. 

    According to Thomas Simmons, the Operations Manager for Oncore Technology, they purchased BioCycle and no longer operated under the name “Oncore Technology” but are also known as Oncore Healthcare Solutions, LLC. However, they failed to re-register with the state of New Mexico and had been operating with multiple violations.

    The NMED noted the following manifest violations with both the waste generator (Planned Parenthood) and the waste Hauler (Oncore Technology LLC.) These manifests accompany each pickup and transport of biohazard waste and document how much waste is being transported. On average there were two to three 28 gallon containers that were collected weekly from the Albuquerque Planned Parenthood surgical center between January-April 2021.

    Of the 17 manifests Planned Parenthood submitted to NMED, all of the

    “generator blocks of the special waste manifests were insufficiently completed.”

    Oncore Technology LLC’s specific manifest violations are as follows:

    1. Oncore Technology LLC is currently an unregistered commercial hauler.
    2. The manifests used were in Oncore Technologies LLC’s name but BioCycle’s NMED commercial hauler registration number was used.
    3. The treatment facility block information required on the manifests was not completely filled-in and lacked the: 
    • telephone number of the facility
    • total weight deposited/unloaded
    • printed name of the facility’s representative
    • the date of the signature
    • section, instead of an actual hand-written signature.    
    • a signature stamp was used to “sign” the manifests in the treatment facility block 

    Oncore Technology was ultimately also found to be in violation of the following: 

    1. Failure to re-register as a commercial hauler (unregistered commercial hauler), violation of 20.9.3.31.A NMAC, seventeen (17) instances of violation, occurring on or before January 8, 2021 to April 30, 2021;
    2. Misrepresentation of information on special waste manifests (used BioCycle’s NMED commercial hauler registration number), violation of 20.9.8.19.C NMAC, seventeen (17) instances of violation, occurring on or before January 8, 2021 to April 30, 2021;
    3. Failure to properly complete special waste manifests, violation of 20.9.8.19.C NMAC, seventeen (17) instances of violation, occurring on or before January 8, 2021 to April 30, 2021; and
    4. Failure to properly label vehicles for infectious waste removal, violation of 20.9.5.14.C (4) NMAC, seventeen (17) instances of violation, occurring on or before January 8, 2021 to April 30, 2021.

    Just a Slap on the Wrist

    In a letter dated May 19, 2021 from NMED Enforcement Officer Daniel Galasso to Amy Dickson, Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, he simply instructs Planned Parenthood to begin filling out the special waste manifests properly to document chain of custody. Regarding Oncore Technology LLC, BioCycle and Oncore Health Technologies violations, they were instructed to correct the violations within 10 days.This amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist from the NMED even though there are legitimate documented violations of New Mexico statute that have occurred.

    2nd Complaint Filed- Aborted Babies illegally transported in the Front Seat

    (THESE RED BINS CONTAIN THE HUMAN REMAINS OF ABORTED CHILDREN.)

    On April 7, 2022, Abortion Free New Mexico’s Tara Shaver filed an additional complaint with the New Mexico Environment Department after volunteers outside of the Albuquerque Planned Parenthood took pictures and video of Oncore/BioCycle waste haulers illegally placing biohazard containers in the front seat of a pickup truck. These red bins contained the human remains of aborted children. The vehicle still lacked proper identification in accordance with New Mexico statute.

    Dan Galasso, Enforcement Coordinator and Environmental Scientist informed Tara Shaver that the company has been instructed to correct these items of non-compliance but at this time, there has been no disciplinary action taken.

    Abortion Free New Mexico has sent letters to Oncore/BioCycle’s President, Otley Smith, CEO Vernon Wells and Vice President, R. Mason Bryant to urge them to sever ties with Planned Parenthood of New Mexico. The Project Weak Link initiative that Abortion Free New Mexico has teamed up with Created Equal to implement in New Mexico believes that,

    “If abortionists are going to kill babies, they should be forced to dispose of the bodies by themselves. The abortion industry does not exist by itself. It is deeply ingrained in cultural institutions, norms, and economies. To end abortion, we must decrease the industry’s relevance by socially and financially isolating it from other industries.”

    It’s time to implement the next phase of this initiative because the New Mexico Environment Department has failed to properly discipline Oncore/BioCycle for their violations. Abortion Free New Mexico may be calling on the public in the coming weeks to let their voices be heard by Oncore/BioCycle leaders as well as leaders in the Texas Legislature.

    Tara Shaver continued,

    “Not only is Abortion Free New Mexico sounding the alarm about the transportation and disposal of aborted babies across state lines, we are also calling for the U.S. Congress to address the constitutional crisis that is looming for pre-born babies. How is the right to life lost by crossing a state line? This crisis is very reminiscent of the earliest days in this nation when free states and slave states existed. Surely we are not going back into that dark place where your place of residence determines your value. Pre-born babies all across America need and deserve constitutional personhood from the moment of conception.”