A majority of Americans, including Republicans, support the current federal funding system for Planned Parenthood, according to a new poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos.
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Holly O’Donnell, a former StemExpress technician who appeared in other videos from the anti-abortion group, claims the fetus’s heart began to beat when another technician tapped it. That could have been a short-lived spontaneous reaction of the heart muscle.
Forck was also the organizer of the “Women Betrayed” rally held outside the Columbia Planned Parenthood affiliate earlier this month.
Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, and Rep. Trent Franks, R-Arizona, sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch Tuesday suggesting that Planned Parenthood may have broken three separate laws in the process of donating fetal tissue to medical researchers.
“In all technicality, we don’t need to fund Planned Parenthood“.
The state told ABC7 that it was Planned Parenthood officials who admitted they were performing illegal abortions in Fort Myers, Naples and St. Petersburg.
Planned Parenthood officials say that doctors measure a pregnancy’s length from the woman’s last menstrual cycle, and so an abortion performed in the 13th week falls within the state’s regulations for the first trimester of pregnancy.
Some on Capitol Hill want to end more than $500 million in annual federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
“Because fetal tissue donations are critical to life-saving medical research, we will be exploring other options”, the two said in the joint statement. Planned Parenthood has argued that the state changed the definition of second-trimester, without proper notice, and has filed for court injunction to stop prosecutions under the new definition. Planned Parenthood says it has operated in the state under those guidelines for the past 10 years with no previous controversy until now. Planned Parenthood says the agency is now defining the first trimester as the first 12 weeks. Another protest outside the facility has been planned for Saturday at 10 a.m.
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“I feel like the voice of the party has swung, especially on this issue, way, way, way to the right and most of us are moderates”, said Kevin Curtis, a Republican.
