Planned Parenthood to stop accepting payment for fetal tissue

The change, announced in a letter to the National Institutes of Health, comes following the onslaught of conservative attempts to completely de-fund and attack the women’s health care organization on the basis of its fetal tissue donation programs.

Planned Parenthood did not say how much income it stands to lose by ending fetal tissue payments. The new policy was implemented to take any ammunition away from anti-abortion politicians and activists.

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards introduces U.S. President Barack Obama before he addresses the Planned Parenthood Gala in Washington on April 26, 2013.

The Republican-dominated legislative branch has held hearings and debated multiple pieces of legislation geared at removing the $500 million of federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

Her letter did not address why Planned Parenthood, when the first videos appeared, apologized.

What’s more, a federal judge issued a ruling on Tuesday that will allow the Center for Medical Progress to respond to a congressional subpoena to release all its videos on Planned Parenthood, despite suspicious efforts by the National Abortion Federation to stop CMP from doing so.

“Planned Parenthood says it does not mean to suggest other providers should stop receiving legal reimbursements”. Senate Bills 237 and 238 further defund Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, the state’s largest abortion provider.

“Planned Parenthood’s decision is clearly an effort at damage control – to preserve its carefully cultivated (and ferociously defended) image as merely a women’s health care organization”, said by email.

Nonetheless, the policy change is unlikely to satisfy Planned Parenthood’s most vocal critics.

Until Planned Parenthood specifically details its new policy and how it plans to enforce it in every single Planned Parenthood facility in the country, and given Planned Parenthood’s documented record of dishonesty over the last several months, a little skepticism about the group’s latest claim seems to be be the best policy going forward.

Planned Parenthood has repeatedly insisted that the videos were deceptively edited and that selling the tissue only covered delivery and preservation costs.

Videos of undercover interviews were released by the Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion organization.

Indiana Planned Parenthood would likely seldomly consent to reimbursement for fetal cell tissues given for health-related investigation after abortions, her a physician said on Tuesday, the attention to really charges by anti-abortion campaigners that it literally benefited from abortions.

“The murder of an unborn child, and then to use the body parts from that baby and to justify that for economic reasons and research reasons, to me, is morally and ethically wrong”, said Sen. Daleiden said. “This proves what CMP has been saying all along – Planned Parenthood incurs no actual costs, and the payments for harvested fetal parts have always been an extra profit margin”. Eliminating federal funding to Planned Parenthood would “limit access” to healthcare for women, men, families and “disproportionately” affect low-income people, the OMB said.

“Clearly, this was a decision motivated by optics rather than the organization’s conscience”, said Ms. Black, a registered nurse.