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Posted on 07/28/2015 5:36:57 PM PDT by markomalley
The week-long outcry over secretly-taped videos revealing Planned Parenthood's practice of selling body parts of aborted fetuses won't be investigated by the federal agency that provided $67.2 million between 2010 and 2012 -- or even watched by the department's boss.
The House Education and the Workforce Committee Tuesday released videos of testimony from Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell explaining why she won't probe the Planned Parenthood affair. It included this back and forth:
(video at link)
Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.): Have you seen those videos?
Burwell: I have not seen the videos. I have read the articles about them.
Also:
Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA): I would like some commitment from you here today on when your department will conduct an investigation on this very, very serious matter…Can you tell me when we're going to do something about that?
Sec. Burwell: This is an important issue and one that there is passionate and emotion and belief on many sides of the issue and want to respect that … With regard to investigating or looking into those issues, as I said, because it is a statutory legal issue, the Department of Justice and the Attorney General has said she has taken those issues under review and will determine what the appropriate next step is.
And:
Chairman John Kline (R-MN): The activities which have been so abhorrent to so many of us that have been revealed in these videos that are the actions of Planned Parenthood, you believe that is solely a matter for the Department of Justice. Is that correct?
Sec. Burwell: With regard to the determination of if a law has been broken, in those cases, that is the Department of Justice. If there are any concerns at all with our grantees, we would want to refer that to our IG and/or the Department of Justice depending on those circumstances.
(video at link)
A third video was released Tuesday by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress that showed a whistleblower who says her biomedical company paid for fetal organs from Planned Parenthood. The Examiner's Paige Winfield Cunningham had the story.
Evil doesn’t recognize evil.
Yes, they certainly aren’t so careful about pretending to respect the legalities when they’re persecuting conservatives and Christians, or the rights of legal citizens.
I think that this bunch is so evil, they embrace evil wherever they find it.
Lawless commie ‘RATS protecting lawless commie ‘RATS! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! Nobody has YOUR back!!!
I wonder why the committee did not the videos to show in the room
after HHS said they had not seen the videos?
I think you are right.
Perpetrators of evil and those who ran cover for them.
If this evil, evil doesn’t exist.
I that’s what they’re banking on, nobody willing to call them evil.
Without Christianity and Christian ethics, what’s the basis for claiming what they are doing is wrong?
“Hey, we don’t like it!” No power there.
“Hey, they’re the children of God!” There’s power there.
bttt
Burwell. Kathleen Sebelius with long hair?
Same old shits.
What an ugly witch.
The picture indicates that she is “slack jawed” which is a good indicator of low comprehensive abilities .... HHS policy of hiring the handicapped starting at the top!!!
Of course it does.
Evil will not stop evil. I think that is what you actually mean.
These are the ungodly among us, those who cannot even bring themselves to condemn the butchering of unborn children and selling their tiny hearts and livers.
When God’s judgment comes on America we will all suffer. We lost the right to complain about our suffering when we allowed the ungodly to take over our government, starting with the Supreme Court. They will find there is a truly supreme judge who will not be mocked, but it will be too late.
Sure it does, just before they embrace...
Chicago Democrats use the law to punish their enemies and protect their friends. It’s a tool to hold on to power, nothing more.
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