More investigations target Planned Parenthood policies

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin executive director Tanya Atkinson said Kremer’s call for an investigation is part of a series of “ongoing and unwarranted political attacks” on the organization. Three Republican-led congressional committees are investigating the matter.

“I want the committees to do their investigation”.

“It doesn’t bring me comfort to know that one child is torn apart so maybe they can do research on the child’s organs so at some future moment (they can) help a different child”.

On Wednesday, House Republican leaders announced an investigation of Planned Parenthood stemming from the video.

In the taped conversation with actors pretending to be buyers from a human biologics company, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, senior director of medical services is heard discussing over lunch how Planning Parenthood makes fetal tissue available from abortions for medical research.

The video depicts a woman identified as a Planned Parenthood doctor unguardedly discussing how to retrieve an aborted fetus in order to preserve fetal tissue for donation.

“According to Planned Parenthood, the monetary sums mentioned by Nucatola were for reimbursement of the clinics” costs in handling the tissue donations.

“It makes a huge difference”, she added. In the video, Nucatola says that tissue donation does not have “any revenue stream”.

DeWine says if money is generated from the practice it may be illegal.

Newman, president of Operation Rescue, an extreme anti-abortion organization, wouldn’t offer any more details but said “our evidence will come forth and show that”.

An antiabortion group called the Center for Medical Progress posted the video on its website. “It’s shocking. It’s awful”.

“I think it’s disgusting”. “She’s talking about doing things that are illegal in the United States”.

Several GOP candidates are campaigning against Planned Parenthood in full force.

A March state health inspection of Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis facility found it failed to ensure expired medications weren’t available for patient use, protect sterile instruments from dust, monitor the humidity in the instrument area and replace worn patient care items.

McCall joined a group of anti-abortion protesters Thursday afternoon in front of Planned Parenthood’s location at 2140 Babcock Road.

But Planned Parenthood says the charge is false.

“The fact that we’re funding it is a disgrace that beggars my ability to articulate”, Franks said. Selling human body parts is a federal crime.

The anti-abortion group that released the video alleges that Planned Parenthood is selling fetal organs for a profit, which the group says would amount to a felony.

Richards apologized for the tone of comments made in the video by a Planned Parenthood official – a tone she said that does not reflect “the compassionate care that we provide”.