Planned Parenthood Gains Some Traction in Fight Over Antiabortion Group’s Videos

On Monday, Dawn Laguens, the vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement that the allegation that it performed second-trimester abortions “is completely false”. Other clinics are in Charleston and Greenville.

“These extremists show a total lack of compassion and dignity for women’s most personal medical decisions”, an August. 4 statement from Planned Parenthood said.

Haley noted that a Legislative Audit Council report in May found the agency hasn’t consistently inspected the state’s three licensed abortion clinics as required by law. Planned Parenthood officials say that doctors measure a pregnancy’s length from the woman’s last menstrual cycle, and so an abortion performed in the 13th week falls within the state’s regulations for the first trimester of pregnancy.

Though the Republican effort to stop all federal funding to Planned Parenthood failed in the Senate earlier this month, the crusade to undermine the health nonprofit is far from over. Now, Planned Parenthood has filed suit, claiming that the state is trying to redefine what a trimester is.

The nonprofit’s leaders have said the videos are highly edited and fraudulent.

Jim Esquea, the assistant secretary of legislation at HHS, also wrote, “We have confirmed that HHS researchers working with fetal tissue obtained the tissue from non-profit organizations that provided assurances to us that they are in compliance with all applicable legal requirements”.

Attorney General Maura Healey has cleared the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts of any wrongdoing after conducting a review at the behest of state Rep. James Lyons (R-Andover), though her close political ties to the organization has some anti-abortion supporters crying foul.

A conservative activist says new steps need to be taken to address Planned Parenthood, beginning with truth about research.

The group has more events planned this weekend.

The group accused the state of moving the goalpost by using different standards from ones AHCA had used over the past decade to calculate first- and second-trimester abortions. The school has said it does not.

“I just don’t think they ought to receive my money that I pay in taxes”, said Kathy Scholl, 66, a Republican from Iowa Park, Texas.

Meanwhile, last week, Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson ended the state’s contracts with Planned Parenthood for services covered by Medicaid.