Three inquiries into Planned Parenthood have already been opened since the beginning of August with the Energy and Commerce Committee, along with the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee each running one.
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In a statement, a spokeswoman for the state health department said, “We are still reviewing the filing, however, the department’s position on Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has not changed”.
PPCW offers women receiving abortions the option to voluntarily donate placental tissue to two studies being conducted at OHSU. While that is true, Planned Parenthood opponents have pointed out that the organization has plans to build an abortion clinic in New Orleans. But more strikingly, she didn’t come even close to answering Tapper’s original question, either.
“Taking taxpayer dollars away from Planned Parenthood doesn’t affect their ability at all to hand out abortions”, Koolman said.
In turn, Planned Parenthood has hotly denied any wrongdoing and filed a restraining order in July seeking to prevent CMP from releasing any more incriminating videos and transcripts.
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, compared the Republican committees to the early-1950s investigations of alleged communist infiltration led by Sen.
PPCW President and CEO Stacy Cross said in her letter that PPCW doesn’t profit from voluntary placental tissue collection. The videos by all accounts were heavily edited and were made by an antiabortion group that misrepresented itself to gain access to Planned Parenthood officials.
Current state law prohibits abortions at about 24 weeks, if a physician determines an unborn child could survive outside of the womb.
Thayer is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom in a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood of the Heartland.
Carpentier said Planned Parenthood affiliates in Michigan have “never” provided fetal organs or intact fetal tissue in the way described in the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress.
If Frelinghuysen remains willing to write the organization a check because of its good work, why did he oppose continuing federal support for Planned Parenthood?
This controversy has caused uproar in the pro-life community, causing several states to commence investigations of the abortion giant, with numerous calls for the federal government to cease all funding of Planned Parenthood.
“Chaffetz has in his possession right now, a computer hard drive that contains videos produced by David Daleiden, the head of the group that tried to entrap Planned Parenthood”, Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., said Wednesday, interrupting the chamber’s debate on legislation expanding the investigation into Planned Parenthood. Yet this week, House Republicans announced that they are creating a new special committee to further investigate Planned Parenthood.
Activists against abortion rights say this is proof the group has a history of trying to “illegally sell baby parts”, as Stemberger’s letter said.
“There is a reason that, despite technically being a nonprofit, Planned Parenthood has reported $765 million in excess revenue over the last 10 years“.
The congressman’s explanation that he switched his vote on Planned Parenthood because of the videos seems spurious at best.
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“Most days, we have at least a single case to process”, she said. Senate Democrats blocked GOP efforts to strip funding for the group, which uses federal taxpayer money to provide women’s health and birth control services.
