Last month, 16 Florida Planned Parenthood locations were investigated and three were cited for allegedly illegally performing second-trimester abortions. The Agency for Health Care Administration, ordered by Scott in July to undertake an investigation of the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics, has reported the abortions took place in the 13th week of pregnancy.
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Planned Parenthood said the abortions in question were first-trimester abortions and that the state appeared to have arbitrarily shortened its measurement of the first trimester.
When it’s been 14 weeks from a woman’s last period, she’s 12 weeks pregnant: Those first two weeks don’t count for pregnancy, but they are one way doctors gauge the age of the fetus.
Planned Parenthood is now seeking a temporary injunction to prevent state agencies from taking any further actions against its clinics or staff.
The state of Florida launched an investigation into the Planned Parenthood abortion business after multiple expose’ videos have caught the abortion business selling the body parts of aborted babies. “The state of Florida’s own records from nearly a decade ago clearly state that Planned Parenthood is following the law, and today’s news confirms nothing has changed”.
“I think this is an obvious political attack against Planned Parenthood“.
“Planned Parenthood will not back down from the politicians and anti-abortion extremists who are using every underhanded tactic they can to politicize these critical medical issues”, said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Planned Parenthood said the organization receives legal payment only for the cost of the procedure and requires a mother’s consent before the tissue is given to researchers.
Governor Terry Branstad says it’s “the responsibility” of Iowa’s Democratic attorney general to determine if Planned Parenthood of the Heartland is prosecuted for “any criminal wrong-doing”.
“We absolutely did not report any illegal procedures”, she said in a written statement.
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The seventh video from the Center for Medical Progress shows Holly O’Donnell, a former procurement technician from StemExpress, a stem cell research company that partnered with Planned Parenthood, discussing an experience in which she saw a fellow technician procure a brain from a fetus.
