A Seventh Planned Parenthood Investigation Video Released
Jindal, who has been positioning himself to be the candidate for social conservatives, pulled Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood after videos leaked from a conservative organization alleged the organization was selling aborted fetuses.
Kasich is already under fire from anti-abortion groups in his state for declining to defund Ohio’s branch of Planned Parenthood, though he has denounced the group’s practices as “abhorrent”.
Planned Parenthood said on Wednesday it would drop a petition for an emergency injunction against Florida health officials, after the state backed away from what the reproductive health group had called an attempt to redefine gestation periods.
The day of protests follows the release of secretly recorded videos that have ignited debate over whether fetal tissue from abortions should be used for research.
“These videos are exposing the American people to the truth about Planned Parenthood and the truth about abortion“, Eric Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League said, according to a #ProtestPP press release. The videos will be played on a loop for the duration of the protests.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood supporters say fetal tissue is vital for medical research into cures for diseases that affect millions of people.
Chief Executive Officer Catherine Dyer said the company’s connection to Planned Parenthood led to violent threats and forced her to hire a security team.
“And we want that investigation to be a criminal murder investigation”, she says, “because killing these babies, with little heartbeats in their chests, is murder in anybody’s universe”. Dyer is laughing about how StemExpress purchases fully intact aborted babies from Planned Parenthood. “He is ready to cut health care for thousands of low-income women and men without batting an eye”.
Planned Parenthood apologized for the “tone” of one of the doctors, who discussed abortions and fetal tissue donations in the videos rather bluntly over lunch with an actor posing as a tissue procurement representative.
Fewer than half of the Planned Parenthood’s 700 clinics perform abortions, and none of them are paid for by government money except for Medicaid patients in cases of rape, incest or pregnancy that threatens a woman’s life.
“The undercover videos expose the potential illegality of Planned Parenthood’s actions, and the grisly, inhuman nature of their business”, added ADF Senior Counsel Michael J. Norton.