This is only the latest in a series of articles Krumholz has written about what he’s learned from digging deep into the statistics behind Planned Parenthood’s activities and related societal data, and it may be the most damning.
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Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit that provides a spectrum of women’s health services, including abortions, has been fighting a national battle since last year to maintain its funding and services in the midst of a polarizing political climate and election year.
Sen. Ryan Silvey, a Kansas City Republican, said the politics of the issue must be set aside.
Missouri lawmakers in a rare move Thursday voted to summon the CEO of a regional Planned Parenthood to explain why she should not be held in contempt of the state Senate for defying a subpoena that demanded documents on how the organization handles fetal remains.
Abortion activists are resorting to increasingly dishonest tactics to attack Missouri Senators who are investigating Planned Parenthood. “Senator Schaefer has led the effort to seek the truth as to how Planned Parenthood is disposing of aborted fetuses and has never requested the medical information of any of its patients. No one is questioning that”, said Sen. The samples originated from the pathology lab that works with the St. Louis Planned Parenthood.
An attorney for Planned Parenthood responded a week later stating its objections.
In 2013, Anderson’s grand jury investigation into late-term abortionist Douglas Karpen-who has been called the Gosnell of Houston-failed to return a single indictment, even though Karpen’s former employees stated that babies were born alive and then murdered in his clinic on a daily basis. Texas passed a law requiring requiring the same medical standards for abortion providers as are required for other surgical facilities, and that case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
According to the Associated Press, the last time the Missouri Senate held someone in contempt was 1899, when they voted to hold a man named Harry Nuttall in contempt for his “conduct, bearing, demeanor and profanity” during a corruption investigation.
Rep. Walt Rogers, R-Cedar Falls and a member of the House committee that advanced the bill, said the state would fill the gap left by the removal of federal dollars. “Defendant also believes and has been informed that, throughout the instant grand jury proceedings, prosecutors provided some or all of the evidence produced to the grand jury – including TRO videos and other material produced by Daleiden – to the target of its investigation, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast”.
She noted that Latin America, one of the regions hardest hit by the virus, has “some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world”.
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Attorneys for the state, however, said the abortion group can provide the information without personally identifiable patient information.
