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There are 54 Republicans and just a small handful of anti-abortion Democrats, though some abortion-rights Democrats have avoided defending the comments that Planned Parenthood officials made in the videos.

Several Republican presidential hopefuls have called for federal funding to be stripped from Planned Parenthood, and Democrats, such as California Attorney General Kamala Harris, are reviewing the group behind the videos to see whether any state laws were violated.

“Fetal tissue has resulted in a lot of medical breakthroughs, and so it does seem to be an important part of of medical and scientific research”, Kight said.

As a top Planned Parenthood official said in the first undercover video, they “want to break even. And if they can do a little better than break even, and do so in a way that seems reasonable, they’re happy to do that”.

The videos, recorded as part of thousands of hours of secret filming by CMP, show Planned Parenthood executives discussing fetal tissue donation.

It took 15 days – more than two weeks – before Richards conducted her first television interview. Richards said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”. Planned Parenthood’s actions of dissecting and removing organs has woken up people who do not identify...

Planned Parenthood does not at all profit from fetal tissue donation, which is an important element of healthcare research in this country. “They’ve faked tax filings and completely falsified what they were about, ‘ Richards said yesterday of ABC News”...

But while Richards stated on Thursday that Nucatola’s tone in the video lacked compassion, she refuted conclusions that Planned Parenthood makes money from fetal body parts and organs. The GOP leaders also requested that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates “preserve...

Planned Parenthood is now hitting back on claims that clinics might be illegally selling fetal tissue. Until Planned Parenthood breaks off its abortion/wholesale baby-part business from its women’s health operations, you’re a big investor.

Senator Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma, noted the irony that the Senate was in the midst of discussions on the “humane treatment of animals being put down”, while at the same time, “there were children still being aborted with an instrument reaching into a...

Richards’ response? It’s completely and utterly untrue.

In 2000, another undercover investigation by a Texas-based antiabortion group accused a Kansas clinic affiliated with Planned Parenthood of illegally selling the organs of fetuses. Dan Benishek of Crystal Falls and Mike Bishop of Rochester applauded the congressional efforts to...

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...

This evening, when I realized the website for StemExpress, the organization whose brochure emphasizes the “financial benefit” such fetal tissue can provide for clinics, was back online after being broken for the last couple of days. “Click to watch...

“A well-funded group established for the goal of damaging Planned Parenthood’s mission and services has promoted a heavily edited, secretly recorded videotape that falsely portrays Planned Parenthood’s participation in tissue donation programs that support...