Elizabeth Warren Defends Planned Parenthood in Passionate Speech

In the first video released by the conservative group Center for Medical Progress earlier in July, Planned Parenthood senior medical director Dr. Deborah Nucatola is shown discussing how she “crushes” certain parts of the baby in order to get desired organs intact to be available for sale to biomedical companies.

“The video, like previously ones released by the group, is highly edited”, Johnson wrote, referring to undercover footage released Monday.

“It’s our obligation to protect our wives, our sisters, our daughters, our granddaughters” from the GOP’s “absurd policies”, said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

New Hampshire’s Republican-led Executive Council rejected $639,000 in state funding for Planned Parenthood along party lines Wednesday amid a renewed national debate over whether the organization should receive public money. Monday’s vote was 53-46, failing to garner the necessary 60-vote threshold.

Some abortion doctors are researchers themselves and perform abortions in a way that allows them to get the most intact organs for their own research, Farrell said.

The Republican drive was prompted by graphic videos secretly recorded by anti-abortion activists that show Planned Parenthood officials coolly describing how they sometimes provide fetal tissue to medical researchers.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) argues that an investigation into the videos is necessary, but believes it should be the Center for Medical Progress under Justice Department scrutiny, not Planned Parenthood.

Dr. Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, issued the following statement following the U.S. Senate vote last night, which defeated a bill that would have prevented hundreds of millions of dollars from being funneled to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. Those efforts have angered many Democrats.

Three Republican senators seeking the nomination, Texas’ Ted Cruz, Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Florida’s Marco Rubio, voted on Monday in favor of advancing the bill to defund Planned Parenthood.

Perdue and Isakson recently joined 48 senators in sending a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell condemning the videos and urging Burwell to cooperate with ongoing and future investigations, including Georgia’s joint review of clinics in the state. “More favorable than any political candidate”. They say numerous organization’s centers are in areas with few alternatives for reproductive health care or for other services for the low-income women who comprise a majority of its clients. Jindal said the state is also concerned that chapters could be recommending abortions to clients in violation of Louisiana law.

By law, federal funds are already barred from being used for abortions except for cases of incest, rape or when a woman’s life is in danger.

If true, that would make Boxer one of the Senate’s most informed defenders of Planned Parenthood.