Planned Parenthood has hundreds of family planning and reproductive health centers nationwide.
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“I do not believe that taxpayer money should be used to fund this organization; instead those funds should be sent to other healthcare providers”, said Democratic Senator Joe Manchin in a statement.
Coats’ office says that 1993 law prohibited the performance of abortions intended to preserve fetal tissue.
Democrats generally have rallied against the bill, painting the GOP drive as an assault on women’s health care.
This is also ironic, she says, because there has been a fairly broad bipartisan consensus in favor of using tissue from aborted fetuses in research for many years.
The anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress has so far released four videos in which people posing as representatives of a company that purchases fetal tissue converse with Planned Parenthood officials. In its most recent annual report, Planned Parenthood said it performed 328,000 of them.
“This raises not questions about Planned Parenthood so much as it raises questions about the whole process; that is, not just involving Planned Parenthood, but many institutions in our country”, Mrs. Clinton told the New Hampshire Union Leader.
That’s big money for Planned Parenthood.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is immune to the abortion controversy stoked by hidden-camera video of Planned Parenthood officials trading in body parts of unborn children, said a top Democratic political strategist. Many are choosing their words like Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who says of Republicans, “They’re attacking women’s health”. The measure calls for funneling Planned Parenthood’s federal aid to other providers of health care to women, including hospitals, state and local agencies and federally financed community health centers.
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But while the tie to fetal tissue is new, the fight to separate Planned Parenthood from its federal funding is, in fact, older than the 26-year-old Daleiden. Republicans in the House helped use those videos (which were later found to have been edited to make them misleading) to pass an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood. So some Republicans want to see whether congressional investigations of Planned Parenthood produce evidence that forces Democrats to concede.
