The criminal case against two pro-life activists who exposed Planned Parenthood's sale of aborted baby body parts is unfolding in California, but the biggest revelations to date concern how babies are treated in the desire to turn a profit.

David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress went undercover to interview Planned Parenthood officials and executives from various labs. Those officials openly described how the system worked in a series of 2015 videos.

After initially expressing revulsion at what was discussed on the videos, Planned Parenthood went on offense to bring the legal fight to Daleiden and Merritt for allegedly recording people without their consent - something that is usually illegal in California.

But in recent testimony, the CEO of of the research lab Stem Express confirmed what the videos show.

Known only as Doe 12 to the court, the CEO admitted to wanting fetuses delivered "intact" before various organs or tissue are procured for the labs.  And the defense says that description means exactly what it sounds like.

"In their words, the better the body part that's intact and whole, the more they can get for the sale of that body part.  That's what they sell to Stem Express and other entities, such as Stanford University," said Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver, whose organization is providing legal counsel to Sandra Merritt.

Staver gave specific examples.

"Doe 12 has now admitted on the stand that she sold some of these intact body parts to Stanford University, including intact brains.  In order to have an intact brain, you have to have it attached to the body and then remove it after the baby is outside of the womb.  So these babies are being butchered alive," said Staver.

"We will also have information about beating hearts, that the hearts once they're removed have to remain beating, which means that they're beating at the time that they're removed and they continue to remain in a beating state through artificial electrical stimulation until they get to the research and other specimen labs.

"What we're talking about is killing, butchering live babies for profit," said Staver.

Listen to the full podcast to learn why Staver believes the law is strongly on the side of Daleiden and Merritt concerning the secret recordings.