The anti-abortion groups who released these tapes worked for years to secretly record videos and edit them in completely misleading ways, all with one goal: “to ban abortion completely and cut women off from healthcare at Planned Parenthood”.
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The third video includes graphic footage, allegedly from inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, of an aborted fetus.
“Extremists have broken laws, harassed our doctors and patients, produced hack videos, and now are claiming to have committed a gross invasion of privacy – one that, if true, could potentially put our staff members at risk”, she said in a statement.
Women Betrayed, which protested on Tuesday, wants to pull federal funding from Planned Parenthood.
Both Georgia senators and Congressman Rick Allen have singed a letter to HHS asking to open a full investigation into Planned Parenthood’s practices. Other said they were glad their mothers didn’t abort them, even though they could have done so legally. Planned Parenthood supporters also gathered outside, wearing pink shirts and displaying a large banner that said, “Healthcare happens here”. “And I think that we may well get some Democrats who are going to say, ‘Enough is enough, we can’t keep funding a group that does this.'”.
Johnson plans to testify on Wednesday in front of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee to discuss her firsthand experience with Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue donations.
“For whatever we could procure, (Planned Parenthood) would get a certain percentage”.
With speeches and signs expressing their outrage, the group Students for Life of America called for government funding of Planned Parenthood to end.
“Fetal tissue has resulted in a lot of medical breakthroughs, and so it does seem to be an important part of of medical and scientific research”, Kight said.
Conservative critics have gone on the attack, saying that Planned Parenthood is making money of the sale of fetal parts and that the organization has broken the law.
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It is illegal to sell fetal tissue for profit, but legal for a group to recover the costs of donating the tissue.
