First Steps to Defund Planned Parenthood Taken by Senate Republicans Monday

Leading the charge is presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, whose campaign website is running a petition calling on Congress to take away Planned Parenthood’s funding. “That will provide the health care services that women need but don’t go selling fetal body parts“, Toomey said. Planned Parenthood follows all laws – period.

O’Donnell also appeared in third video filmed by the Center for Medical Progress regarding Planned Parenthood, in which she said that the abortion provider does benefit from the donation of aborted fetal tissue.

Expressing shock and pain at the stand taken by these states about terminating the contract, Planned Parenthood’s Southeast CEO Staci Fox stated that this step will deny much needed medical assistance to men and women from low income groups, who do not have any kind of insurance. Lila Rose, president of pro-life group Live Action, pointed out that abortion practices make up a very significant portion of Planned Parenthood’s operations, however, and said there is no excuse for suggesting the organization should receive any taxpayer money. “And these mothers don’t know“, O’Donnell said.

As it has for weeks, Planned Parenthood said it has done nothing wrong.

The newly-formed Senate Committee on the Sanctity of Life will hear from the Department of Health and Senior Services about the resumption of abortions at the Planned Parenthood facility in Columbia.

There is an alleged form that is required to be signed by patients if they consent to donate after the abortion. The interviews were conducted and released by anti-abortion activists at the Center for Medical Progress posing as researchers.

Earlier videos in the undercover series showed top Planned Parenthood officials casually discussing the price of body parts of aborted babies with actors who presented themselves as representatives of tissue procurement companies.

“My primary responsibility in that research was when I operated on people and obtained the tissue”. “What we want is a law that will stop what happened on the videos, and we’ll certainly watch throughout the process as to how they get something like that to us”.

“[They say] they care no matter what, [that] they’re truly there for women – and you can see [from this video] that this is nothing but a business”, says Hawkins.

Planned Parenthood says patients decide if their fetal tissue will be used for scientific research.