Christie was asked whether recently released undercover video showing a senior Planned Parenthood official discussing the disposal of aborted fetuses should spur a federal investigation into the group or possible defunding.
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Rick Santorum said Planned Parenthood should “absolutely” be defunded.
Ducey’s announcement Monday follows investigations announced by other states and several congressional committees in response to the release of an undercover video made by anti-abortion activists.
(Dr. Mary Gatter/Planned Parenthood) “Are you looking at eight or nine week specimens or only second trimester specimens?” In the letter, Roger K. Evans, lawyer for Planned Parenthood, said that the group’s chief medical officer, Dr. Raegan McDonald-Mosley, will explain everything about the organization’s practices in which they take permission from patients before providing tissue to medical researcher.
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Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood maintains it does not profit from the sale of aborted baby parts.
“This morning, another very heavily edited video was released by activists who have been widely discredited and who edited a video last week to twist its meaning completely and support false claims”, said Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. We should stop all funding for Planned Parenthood.
The relevant law regarding the “donation” of such “tissue” for research was sponsored in the House of Representatives by left-wing Democrat Henry Waxman and signed into law by President Clinton in 1993. The commercial sale of fetal tissue is illegal, but Planned Parenthood has said it legally helps women who want to make not-for-profit donations of their fetus’ organs for scientific research.
But Planned Parenthood denies the allegations, saying that the company was a fake that tried to induce the employee into selling organs as part of “decade-long harassment” against the organization, AP notes. “And now it also appears that Planned Parenthood is also lying to women, altering their procedures in order to get body parts that can be sold for profit”.
“I think they’re both totally appropriate techniques”.
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“I am sickened by the complete disregard for innocent unborn life evident at Planned Parenthood“, Rubio told Politico.
