This afternoon, while abortion supporters protested outside the Governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge, Jindal set up a huge movie screen and speakers and played on a continuous loop all of the videos released in recent weeks showing the brutality of Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts business.
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Priests for Life is one of the national co-sponsoring groups organizing and promoting rallies against Planned Parenthood across the country on August. 22.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., asked the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress in a letter Thursday whether it used donations in its undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood. Jindal cited them as his reason for ending state Medicaid payments to the organization’s clinics for health services. “We hope the protesters will take a minute to watch them so they’ll have an opportunity to see first-hand our concerns with Planned Parenthood’s practices”. “These videos and this protest are just pieces of the latest political attack created to shut down Planned Parenthood and eliminate basic healthcare services for this community”. Selling fetal body parts is illegal; some Planned Parenthood clinics provide the tissue for a nominal fee to researchers, but Planned Parenthood Gulf States has said its operations in Texas do not engage in that practice. On the topic of affordability, I think Dr. Ben Carson commented well when he said, “I thought that they were supposed to get all those things based on ObamaCare”. StemExpress until recently contracted with Planned Parenthood to pay for donated aborted fetal parts, provided to labs for research and experimentation.
That’s what Planned Parenthood Florida has accused the state of doing.
The company, which broke ties with Planned Parenthood last week, claimed the videos were illegally obtained because officials weren’t notified they were being recorded and their right to privacy was violated.
“Since 2011 when the Department instituted annual and random unannounced surveys of Planned Parenthood facilities in Pennsylvania, the Department has never found a violation of the Abortion Control Act provisions regarding the procurement or use of fetal tissue”, Murphy adds.
The video also has interviews with Planned Parenthood officials and other human tissue companies, Advanced Bioscience Resources and Novogenix Laboratories where representatives talk about the process of injecting the drug digoxin into fetuses.
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Planned Parenthood denounced the move calling it a stunt.
