“It’s a political organization, and that’s something that needs to be ferreted out”.
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“They sought to infiltrate Planned Parenthood affiliates and tried unsuccessfully to entrap Planned Parenthood physicians and staff for almost three years”.
Richards also said the videos have inspired an increase in threats against Planned Parenthood clinics. Federal funds are prohibited by law from being used for abortion, and Planned Parenthood’s federal funding covers services such as cancer screenings and birth control. But House committees began working Tuesday on separate legislation that would cut most of the organization’s federal money and would be immune to Senate filibuster by Democrats.
The measure approved Monday, which contained no such language, would keep the government operating until December 11 if it is approved by the full Senate, House and President Barack Obama.
Richards and Planned Parenthood supporters have blasted the heavily edited videos – released throughout the summer and produced by conservative activists at the Center for Medical Progress – as inaccurate.
Planned Parenthood has declared Tuesday National Pink Out day.
The audience witnessed bitter partisan exchanges between lawmakers that have typified their reactions to the videos.
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, left, will question Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards during a hearing scheduled to start at 10 a.m. today. He also called the organization’s fetal tissue work “barbaric”.
“We’ve known all along our care is ethical, it’s high-quality and it’s compliant with the law”, Kogut said.
Several Republican presidential hopefuls have condemned Planned Parenthood for the procedures.
But ramped-up investigations of Planned Parenthood – including a possible new House select committee focused on the group – are just one of the tactics Republicans in both congressional chambers are pursuing now that the government funding strategy has failed. But he said Monday that the probe “discovered no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis facility is selling fetal tissue”, according to Koster, a Democrat.
He added, “Later, the legalization of abortion gave Planned Parenthood an effective and lucrative means for furthering this eugenics agenda”.
Planned Parenthood in Utah was targeted based on the questionable videos that the governor knew had nothing to do with the group in the state, Tomsic said.
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So far, the most damage inflicted on Planned Parenthood by the videos is the insensitive way a few of its officials discuss the procedures.
