Planned Parenthood, which provides healthcare services to millions of women at hundreds of centers nationwide, has denied any wrongdoing.
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He goes on to encourage the prosecution of anyone who violates state law by buying or selling fetal tissue. Bentley informed Planned Parenthood last week that he was ending the state’s Medicaid agreement within 15 days.
Here’s what you need to know. O’Donnell is a phlebotomist, but she was hired by StemExpress to be a procurement technician. “Maybe he forgot that he’d done the research on fetal tissue?”
The recent revelations Gov. Hutchinson references are videos released online by, The Group for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion activist group.
In the July interview with FOX News, Carson stated there was “nothing that can’t be done without fetal tissue” and that babies aborted at 17 weeks were clearly human beings. Federal law requires that consent for fetal tissue donation. The mom of one answered her critics and criticized Presidential hopefuls who are in favor of slashing the budget for the said program.
That’s the statement that brought the crowd to their feet at the meeting, but this favorable reaction comes after scrutiny following the governor’s decision to terminate the agreement between the Alabama Medicaid Agency and Planned Parenthood. In an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor, Carson also said that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger had written about eugenics and “was not enamored of black people“. Both the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Judiciary committees had asked StemExpress for clarification of its relationship with Planned Parenthood before the announcement. He told reporters he was “very troubled” by the videos. “While we value our business relationship with Planned Parenthood, that work represents a small percentage of our overall business activity and we must focus our limited resources on resolving these inquiries”. In it, Planned Parenthood of the Gulf States Research Director Melissa Farrell discussed providing “intact fetal cadavers” to undercover buyers. Hutchinson said he’s received a similar request from other state lawmakers, including Republican Sen.
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“This really hasn’t been tried before”, Casey Mattox, senior legal counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, tells the WSJ. Without resolution, the move could land the state in court, or possibly lead to the loss of Alabama’s Medicaid funding. The new law, however, did not apply to Medicaid funding.
