Four congressional committees are now investigating Planned Parenthood’s practices, and House Republicans voted last week to create a special panel to probe the organization.
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After an undercover video was released by the Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion group, in July allegedly showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing procurement of fetal tissue, the organization has been under five different congressional investigations, state inquiries, and threats of federal funding cuts.
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the committee’s top Democrat, said in a written statement that aides who examined the videos think they are copies.
David Daleiden is an anti-abortion activist who worked for Live Action before founding the Center for Medical Progress (CMP).
The Center for Medical Progress, an antiabortion group, blamed the Planned Parenthood that they supply fetal tissue from abortions to researchers to gain money and profit. Planned Parenthood denies these allegations, and has said that the videos were highly edited. “Planned Parenthood’s stunt today tells us nothing”.
Megyn Kelly: If Planned Parenthood Has “Done Nothing Wrong, Then Why Are They Canceling The Reimbursement?” . The video also showed the doctor admitting how partial-birth abortions are used to procure body parts intact.
Richards’ letter “amounts to an admission of guilt”, said Kellie Fiedorek, ADF litigation counsel.
“And, second, our decision not to take any reimbursement for expenses should not be interpreted as a suggestion that anyone else should not take reimbursement or that the law in this area isn’t strong”, she added. “They don’t mind having big government go interfere with a woman’s right to choose and to try to take down Planned Parenthood”, Clinton said to loud applause. “The price-per-specimen approach she admitted to in her August letter to Congress is a profit-driven system, pure and simple”.
America’s largest abortion provider released a statement on Tuesday stating that their clinics will no longer accept reimbursements for fetal tissue donations.
According to Planed Parenthood, its fetal tissues programs are now conducted in two states, California and Washington where about a half-dozen of the 700 health centers run by the organization in the states.
“Planned Parenthood is more concerned about its bottom line than about the health and safety of women”, Thayer stated before the House Judiciary Committee on October. 8.
By law, the lab must send pathology reports to both Planned Parenthood and the Department of Health and Senior Services.
With its decision, PPFA is taking opponents’ “smokescreen away”, Richards wrote.
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Planned Parenthood did not respond to a request regarding how much the organization will lose financially by participating in the fetal organ and tissue donation program without receiving reimbursements. Past year alone it was involved in more than 300,000 abortions. However, Green said, Herbert had concern that the national Planned Parenthood organization may be “coloring outside the lines”.
