Abortion opponents plan to rally Tuesday in front of the Syracuse office of Planned Parenthood, joining a nationwide protest calling for an end to taxpayer funding for the organization. Any funds collected are for processing and shipping of the fetal tissue, Planned Parenthood officials said.
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“The selling of baby parts is merely the latest incident of exploitation”, Syracuse rally organizer Caroline Bennett, a Cornell University student, said in a statement.
“Planned Parenthood, with more than 700 health centers, is a trusted health care provider for 2.7 million women each year”, Debra Ness, president of the national partnership, told allies in an email Friday. For one, consider the source: Texas conservatives and other GOPers are eating up dubious claims from the Center For Medical Progress – an ardently anti-choice group associated with Live Action, known to release heavily edited videos that have historically targeted Planned Parenthood. It is illegal to sell such fetal tissue for profit.
To increase the effectiveness of this effort and to force government to conduct the kind of oversight of Planned Parenthood that was proven to be so despicably lacking in the Gosnell abortion murder case we also urge you to sign our separate letter to Congress demanding that the Republican leadership actually follow through and conduct an investigation rather than engage in their usual “go nowhere” political posturing.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, has called for an investigation into Mr. Daleiden’s activities.
You can read the article “Meet the 39 Companies That Donate Directly to Planned Parenthood” through this link. “They were not ever charged”.
Hillary Clinton defended Planned Parenthood during remarks at a campaign stop in South Carolina on Thursday.
Nicole Safar, lobbying director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, said that the legislation and the recent criticism were a politically motivated attack on her group.
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“The real agenda here is becoming clearer every day”, the group said.
