Indeed, in a press conference Friday, which Planned Parenthood said in a federal court filing was how it learned of the charges against it, DeWine said, “I think it will come as a shock to Ohioans to find out that fetuses are being cooked and then they’re being put in a landfill and they’re going to be mixed in with yesterday’s garbage”.
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Planned Parenthood received about $1 million in public funding through the state health department past year.
The extensions – from September 30 to December 11, and now to December 16, despite a deal to increase spending and give negotiators some room to maneuver – are the product of entrenched disagreements over riders on the likes of Planned Parenthood, Syrian refugees, the Export-Import Bank, climate change and tax breaks. He now claims the group is violating a vague OH provision that says that fetal remains have to be disposed of “humanely”.
Kight said that the new allegations are trying to bury the fact that the investigation found no evidence to support the original allegation that Planned Parenthood sells fetal tissue. The organization said it follows OH law and uses the same practices as hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities, which generally contract with outside companies to dispose of all medical waste.
Several large glass windows and a door at a Planned Parenthood center in St. Louis were shattered by a vandal Saturday morning, causing “thousands of dollars” in damages, according to the organization’s regional president and CEO. She said Sunday the tissue is processed and sent to a solid waste facility that’s specifically licensed for medical material, not a typical landfill.
Attorneys for Planned Parenthood accused the state’s health director, Richard Hodges, of abandoning his standard process of providing notice of alleged non-compliance and providing an opportunity to correct such issues.
Schaefer said the committee wasn’t asking for private health records and said Planned Parenthood could have redacted personally identifiable information from documents.
When asked where Planned Parenthood thought the aborted baby parts ended up, if not in landfills, Kight responded, “The Ohio attorney general hasn’t said that any law has been broken”.
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“This sudden and targeted treatment is no doubt motivated by his animus to a woman’s right to safe and legal abortion and to Planned Parenthood in particular”, he said. “I’ve tasked the Ohio Department of Health to work with the attorney general to take appropriate legal action”.
