Kentucky Senate votes to ban fetal tissue sales

Daleiden and Merritt created a fake human-tissue company and secretly recorded Planned Parenthood workers discussing the disposal of organs.

“What they’re hearing all the time is the criticism, and there is a community out there that supports them”, Miles said.

Salt Lake City Democratic Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck said Thursday that Herbert was reacting to a heavily edited video and it’s clear that the Utah Planned Parenthood organization did nothing wrong.

Plus, long before the fetal body part scandal Live Action used undercover videos to bust Planned Parenthood for all kinds of shenanigans, including failing to report sex abuse of women who sought abortions.

Brownback had referenced the videos produced by the Center of Medical Progress during his State of the State address earlier this month when he called for the state to cut off Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood.

“I think they need to stop trafficking in baby body parts”, he said Wednesday about Planned Parenthood.

According to Planned Parenthood, officials have cleared it of wrongdoing in 12 US states in the wake of the allegations. In it she says: “First, at a press conference today, the defense attorneys asked me re-present the investigation to another grand jury”. He responded to the Harris County decision by maintaining that multiple other investigations will proceed.

And critics point out that one of the prosecutors assigned to the case was a Planned Parenthood board member.

“There is now a pattern in Houston of District Attorney Devon Anderson’s office covering up abortion-related crimes”, she told LifeNews.

Although what happened during the grand jury’s secret deliberations may never be known, Schaffer said it did not vote on whether to indict Planned Parenthood.

As to the Karpen case and Anderson’s lack of an indictment, the pro-life group said that grand jury failed to return a “true bill” that would have led to Karpen’s prosecution.

The grand jury declined to indict anyone from Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast-the initial target of the investigation. The felony charge was in reference to the use of a fake ID.

Planned Parenthood sued, and the governor’s order has been put on hold while the case is before the 10th Circuit Court. While the Supreme Court will be deciding whether aspects of that law will remain in place, on Monday, January 25, Patrick’s plan to prove Planned Parenthood’s criminal activity took a surprisingly different turn. That charge reportedly stems from an e-mail Daleiden apparently sent to Planned Parenthood last June offering to buy fetal tissue for $1,600 per sample. Grand jury proceedings are secret and it is unknown if Anderson had suggested the charges.

“Either the government in the DAs office in Harris County will come to its senses and voluntary dismiss this indictment, or the criminal law attorneys that have been retained [by Daleiden and Merritt] will file a motion to dismiss and get these charges dropped”, the attorney said.

Unedited footage later released by the CMP itself actually showed that Planned Parenthood did nothing illegal, but instead received minor, and legal, compensation to cover costs in instances where it donated fetal tissue-with the consent of patients-for medical research.

“Numerous law enforcement and legislative bodies across the country have reached out to David”, Breen said.