Ohio AG: Planned Parenthood involved in disposing aborted fetal parts in landfills

Ohio’s attorney general is planning to seek an injunction today to prevent Planned Parenthood from throwing away fetal remains in landfills.

Ohio’s Planned Parenthood chapter has caught the eye of the state’s attorney general after an investigation found that the non-profit’s three locations in the Buckeye State sent aborted baby parts to their disposal service, who then dropped them into landfills, according to the Hill.

“The reality is that we handle medical tissue just like other health care providers do, and we always have”, Stephanie Kight, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, said in a press statement.

A Missouri Planned Parenthood branch will not to comply with a subpoena to give abortion-related records to Republican state lawmakers, the women’s health group said Friday.

DeWine had initially launched an investigation into the clinics after a series of web videos launched over the summer by the Center for Medical Progress exposed several improprieties at northern California Planned Parenthood facilities.

He now claims the group is violating a vague OH provision that says that fetal remains have to be disposed of “humanely”.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, a Republican, also said the investigation did not turn up any evidence that the women’s health organization is selling fetal tissue, an allegation that was the subject of a heated political debate in recent months.

“Disposing of aborted fetuses from an abortion by sending them to a landfill is callous and completely inhumane”, DeWine said in a statement. She says Planned Parenthood won’t stand for it.

Planned Parenthood’s letter to Richard said answering a request for documents of any incidents where an ambulance was called would violate a federal patient privacy law.

Attorney General DeWine referred his investigative findings to the Ohio Department of Health for further action. “It is important the public be aware that these practices are taking place at these OH facilities”.

“It’s a very unfortunately act of vandalism and violence against a health care provider”, she said. The attorney general’s office failed to let Planned Parenthood address the allegations, attorneys for the organization said.

DeWine’s office opened the investigation into Planned Parenthood in July after anti-abortion activists released undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the price of fetal body parts.