The latest CMP video comes as state leaders in Texas are moving to block funding for Planned Parenthood.
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If Wisconsin defunds Planned Parenthood, what would fill the void in preventative health services for women?
She and an unidentified colleague from a different facility then launch into a conversation about how someone in the Planned Parenthood office likes to dissect dead babies after they are aborted.
It is unclear if the abortion cases discussed in this latest undercover video would qualify as violations.
The Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life, medical ethics group, has released the eleventh video in its ongoing undercover and investigative series purporting to show that Planned Parenthood has sold fetal body parts and performed illegal partial-birth abortions.
Profiting from the sale of human body parts-including the body parts of the unborn-is a felony in the United States.
Spokespersons for Planned Parenthood have denied participation in illegal transactions. “I’m glad to hear that (clinic staff) were not notified in advance”.
So it was no surprise when Richards was asked a second time by a member if Congress she believed medical care should be administered when a live abortion occurs and once again, the stone-cold Planned Parenthood president refused to say “yes”.
Usually the audits are announced in advance, said Jennifer Warren-Ulrick, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s director of health services.
But states can cut their own Planned Parenthood funding without federal intervention. A previous video showed Planned Parenthood Dr. Deborah Nucatola saying that she uses certain procedures to avoid crushing fetal tissue so that it can be used for medical research.
Seago also warned that the abortion industry will not take this action lying down, but will likely seek to circumvent the actions of state legislatures and governors by “judicial activism”. Planned Parenthood affiliates performed more than 327,000 abortions during 2013, making it the largest abortion provider in the country. In other words, Planned Parenthood sought – as Seago put it – to “achieve through judicial activism” what it had ” fail[ed] to accomplish through legislation”.
Disclosure: Planned Parenthood was a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune in 2011.
While the facts are different in Louisiana, the principles are the same, and it is a shame that a federal judge has so blatantly overstepped his proper authority to prevent the government of Louisiana to make this decision for itself. Even those who don’t consider themselves pro-life can likely agree that all else being equal, less abortion is better than more abortion.
Seago expects a lengthy legal battle as Planned Parenthood tries to hold onto it’s share of the state’s Medicaid funding.
Patients in need of abortion services will be referred to health centers in Madison and Milwaukee, the organization said.
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State regulators can conduct “focused” inspections at Planned Parenthood and other health clinics once every five years, or before that if HHS hears of potential issues, changes in management or any “event that raises concerns about the maintenance, operation, or management of the health clinic”.
