The controversy over the federal funding of Planned Parenthood, and of fetal tissue donation itself, began earlier this summer with the release of a series of undercover “sting” videos by an antiabortion activist group calling themselves the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), and accusing the women’s healthcare provider of illegally profiting from fetal tissue donation.
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He said the 670 FQHCs located throughout Illinois also utilize Medicaid funding to provide services beyond reproductive care and contraception, including mammograms, vaccines, diabetes screenings, pediatric care, blood tests and radiological services.
Tobias said Right to Life is concerned that a shutdown over Planned Parenthood could harm the anti-abortion cause in the long run, adding, “If we want to save babies, if we want to defund Planned Parenthood, we have to put a pro-life president in the White House” in next year’s elections.
With a handful of work days remaining, Boehner is in a tight spot, similar to one that resulted in a 17-day government shutdown in October 2013. Shimkus’ 15th Congressional District includes 33 counties, with parts of Champaign County although not Champaign-Urbana. It says a handful of its nearly 700 clinics have legally accepted payments covering their expenses for the tissue. Tuesday, Congressman Tim Ryan said the issue should not be a political one. “Many of us, regardless of your position, felt disgust and outrage over the Planned Parenthood videos”. The altering of procedures to target the specific recovery of organs is really a barbaric practice. I don’t feel like we should readily participate in discussions based on crap.
Planned Parenthood has said the videos were deceptively edited and it has done nothing wrong.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt is asking Planned Parenthood entities in Nevada for details about how they conduct abortions.
“Mr. Chairman, I find it so crushingly sad that the only time that this little baby was ever held by anyone in his short life was by those who cut his face open and took his brain”.
The president says Republicans should be working on the budget, not holding the government hostage to “ideological issues” like Planned Parenthood funding. Researchers at the Guttmacher Institute estimate that in 103 of America’s 491 counties, Planned Parenthood is the only safety-net family planning clinic. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said the focus should be on cures more than treatment and more resources should be spent fighting heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Our health centers stock the full range of FDA-approved methods of birth control so patients do not have to make multiple visits.
“Planned Parenthood stands for trust, respect, and regard for the dignity and worth of every person who turns to us for care – no matter what”. In the latest video, Deborah VanDerhei, the national director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers at PPFA, says, “I have been talking to the executive director of the National Abortion Federation, we’re trying to figure this out as an industry, about how we’re going to manage remuneration, because the headlines would be a disaster”.
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“No organization should be able to profit from the distribution of human tissue harvested from aborted fetuses, whether it’s an abortion clinic or a middleman”, Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said in an emailed statement to The Associated Press.
