The video, which purports to out Planned Parenthood for profiting from the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses to medical research groups, has been used as a rallying cry for politicians, who have launched campaigns on the national and state level to investigate and defund the organization.
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Ashford says taking funding away from Planned Parenthood is not an appropriate response. These donation programs are regulated and legal – and they exist in many hospitals and clinics not associated with Planned Parenthood. Utah law already bars any organization from using state funds for abortions, and that prohibition extends to Planned Parenthood’s federal grants, Herbert said in a statement Friday afternoon.
The clinics say they have stopped performing 13- and 14-week abortions as a precaution, but Planned Parenthood is seeking an emergency injunction from a county circuit judge to allow them to continue offering the procedure at that point in pregnancy.
A string of videos shot clandestinely with Planned Parenthood officials has been released by the Center for Medical Progress.
“Nearly a decade ago, state officials made it clear that Planned Parenthood is operating fully within the law, and nothing has changed”, Barbara Zdravecky, CEO, Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida said earlier this month. The funding makes up about 40 percent of Planned Parenthood’s budget. I would also like to correct what I believe is misinformation in a recent letter from a Southampton woman. “In Louisiana, all of our work is about preventive health care”, including breast exams, cervical cancer screenings, and STD testing and treatment. “It will depend on whether they will create new and excessive reporting burdens or additional barriers to women accessing abortion health care”. After investigations sparked by the series of undercover videos attempting to smear Planned Parenthood, probes in Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, and South Dakota have found “Planned Parenthood affiliates to be in full compliance with the law”, according to the Huffington Post.
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“Planned Parenthood’s rigorous medical standards and guidelines are informed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Society for Family Planning, other professional organizations and published literature”. Arkansas, along with two other states, has decided to disregard the Federal Government’s warning and cut funding to the controversial organization.
