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One in five women American women reports having been to Planned Parenthood for care. The women’s health organization has said the videos are maliciously edited and misrepresent the organization’s work.
The original footage totals more than eight hours between two visits with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Medical Director Melissa Farrell.
Gov. Maggie Hassas, D-N.H., front center, and members of the New Hampshire Executive Council, clockwise from left, David Wheeler, Christopher Pappas, Christopher Sununu, Colin Van Ostern, and Joseph Kennedy, listen to Nicholas Toumpas, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Wednesday, August 5, 2015, in Concord, N.H. before voting on a state funding plan for Planned Parenthood. According to the video, Farrell said extra costs can be attributed to more complicated procedures for second-trimester abortions.
The U.S. Senate on Monday blocked Republican legislation to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood in the wake of the videos.
A letter from Bentley says the state is terminating an agreement with Planned Parenthood Southeast to serve as a Medicaid provider. But the videos that raised questions about fetal tissue transactions have galvanized state lawmakers and governors as well. “Grants are awarded to both states and nongovernmental organizations that demonstrate strong capacity to provide high-quality family planning and other preventive health care, with priority given to low-income and underinsured women and men”, said Clare Coleman, President & CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association.
“This newest video makes it clear it is time for prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation in Harris County immediately”, Patrick said in a statement.
While Roberts seemed to agree with Finney’s claim that defunding the abortion giant would be bad for the liberal agenda, he continued to argue that Democrat defenders of Planned Parenthood should at least view the videos so they know what they’re defending.
This announcement comes after a controversial video was released accusing Planned Parenthood of selling fetal body parts.
Republican councilor Chris Sununu was at the center of attention Wednesday.
But one supporter was already one step ahead of him, having donated $25 to Planned Parenthood’s Rocky Mountains chapter “in honor of Jeb Bush“.
By saying they want to defund the women’s health organization, Republicans are setting up a false dichotomy between Planned Parenthood and community health centers. Sununu is now widely known to be considering a run for governor in 2016. “Larger than any the other affiliates’ combined”, Farrell said.
Now, the idea of whether women can visit a Planned Parenthood clinic at all has become part of the ideological debate.
The Washington Post Fact Checker wrote that Planned Parenthood cited a Huffington Post/YouGov online survey taken in 2013. “I mean that’s- It’s all just a matter of line items”.