OH will pay Planned Parenthood almost $50,000 as part of a high-profile settlement after its top legal official accused the group of illegally dumping fetal remains in landfills.
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Almost 80 pages of documentation accompanied the letters to support the Select Panel’s conclusions that Planned Parenthood and StemExpress broke the law.
Planned Parenthood clinics shared patient health information with StemExpress in order to provide specific types of fetal tissue for resale.
“What this really was was an agreement between the department of health and the plaintiffs for attorney fees”.
“The key to understanding the HIPAA and consent violations that we’ve referred to HHS is that there’s a business contract between StemExpress and the abortion clinics under which both sides make a profit from the baby body parts inside the young woman’s womb”, Ms. Blackburn said in the letter. The university claims that the new law, which is set to take effect July 1, will intervene with its research for neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s.
Planned Parenthood challenged the law, saying it violates the organization’s constitutional rights by denying the funds “in retaliation for” providing abortions.
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The women’s health group claimed that OH had tweaked a state rule requiring fetuses to be disposed of in a “humane manner” – without defining the term – in an attempt to target abortion clinics. It said the panel’s documentation show they “engaged in a five-year-long scheme to profit off aborted baby body parts” in direct violation of HIPAA and other federal laws. The investigation was initiated after the Center for Medical Progress released undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood officials haggling over the price of aborted baby remains.
