The eight and a half minute video concludes with Gatter joking about wanting a Lamborghini, implying that she saw the donation program as profitable.
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“Gatter appears to suggest “$75 a specimen”, as a price that would “work” for fetal tissue of aborted babies.
The charge came in a five-page letter from a Planned Parenthood lawyer that was the group’s initial response to an investigation by Republicans on a House committee.
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The two senators, as well as many others from the Republican party, have criticized Planned Parenthood after an edited video surfaced last week showing a doctor from the organization speaking about buying fetal tissue for medical research.
And regardless of the outcome of the investigations, Planned Parenthood’s actions are still “inhuman and troubling”, Yoest said.
The latest video, released by the Center for Medical Progress, features Mary Gatter, a senior medical director for Planned Parenthood in California, answering questions from undercover investigators about purchasing fetal organ tissue.
Senator Joe Scarnati (R), president pro tem of the Senate, and Rep. Mike Turzai (R), speaker of the House, wrote a letter to Kane July 17 citing federal law, and the state’s Abortion Control Act, as prohibiting the sale of fetal organs or tissue.
“(The Center for Medical Progress) likely has “thousands of hours of videotape” that it will ‘deceptively edit into short video clips to release for many months, ‘” said Roger Evans, a Planned Parenthood attorney, according to The Huffington Post. “We need to protect the sanctity of life and ensure that Planned Parenthood is not encouraging women to have abortions for the grotesque objective of profiting from selling body parts“, he said in a statement Tuesday.
“Planned Parenthood’s top leadership admits they harvest aborted baby parts and receive payments for this”, said project leader David Daleiden.
“These political attacks claiming that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation or illegal activity are simply not true.” “I think it’s time we get a bit more courage”.
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“The woman is casually drinking wine and eating her salad while she talks about crushing the head to keep intact the heart, lungs, livers and other organs”, Santorum said.
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Some lawmakers have called for hearings on the issue, and a few states have announce plans to investigate if any laws have been broken.
