Posted on 07/18/2015 2:10:19 AM PDT by Libloather
Congressional Democrats are coming to the defense of Planned Parenthood as Republicans launch investigations into the group’s use of fetal tissue from abortions.
Multiple Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday dismissed a secretly recorded viral video that shows a Planned Parenthood executive detailing how the livers, lungs and hearts of fetuses are preserved during abortions for medical research.
“It’s got a Benghazi feel to it, for me,” centrist Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) said.
“They’ve been attacking Planned Parenthood for years,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), another prominent abortion rights supporter. “They’ve been calling for investigations for years.”
Still, the footage, which was recorded by anti-abortion advocates posing as fetal tissue buyers from a research company, is putting Democrats in an uncomfortable spot.
While Democrats have for years defended Planned Parenthood against GOP attacks, the graphic discussion about “fetal parts” in the video has energized conservative groups that say the reality of abortion is deliberately obscured by the media.
The remarks from Planned Parenthood’s chief medical director surfaced Tuesday in a nearly nine-minute video that was created by a new group, the Center for Medical Progress.
Planned Parenthood, which receives federal funding that cannot be used for abortions, has acknowledged that the video does feature its top medical officer but says the footage is heavily edited and “grossly mischaracterizes” the organization’s practice of donating fetal tissue to research.
At least one anti-abortion Democrat, Rep. Dan Lipinski (Ill.), said he supports the GOP for its planned investigations. Lipinski denounced the video in a press conference with several House Republicans on Wednesday and said he believes more of his colleagues in the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus will follow.
“I’m hopeful that some of the pro-choice Democrats also come out in support of the investigation to find out what’s going on at these clinics,” he told The Hill. “I think everyone should be concerned about it, no matter what your position is on abortion.”
Some Democrats, like Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.), the co-chairwoman of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, have been cautious in their response to the video.
In a statement to The Hill, she expressed support for Planned Parenthood, though it fell far short of a sweeping defense.
“Planned Parenthood has spoken clearly on the specific circumstances surrounding this video, and I will let their experts explain for themselves. Circumstances of this video aside, people need to understand the important research that specific tissue types contribute to,” she wrote in a statement.
The video, which is nearing 1.5 million views online, reverberated across Capitol Hill and the campaign trail on Wednesday.
Less than 24 hours after it surfaced, lawmakers in the House had opened a pair of congressional investigations. Dozens of Republicans, including Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), have condemned the claims in the video as “inhumane” and “grotesque.”
GOP presidential hopefuls, including Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rand Paul (Ky.), are also raising the issue’s national profile.
The remarks by Planned Parenthood’s medical director in the video are shockingly candid.
While sipping wine in a Los Angeles restaurant, she describes “crushing” the fetus in a way that preserves its organs for researchers. She also describes the growing demand for liver, lungs and “intact” hearts.
Democrats have said there’s no evidence that the group is violating federal laws from her remarks, though none of them told The Hill they had seen the video.
“Planned Parenthood is actually allowed, is my understanding, for scientific research, to use fetal tissue, and that is not illegal,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), a member of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus who said she had spoken to Planned Parenthood leadership.
When asked about Republicans’ planned investigations into Planned Parenthood, Schakowsky said she wanted an investigation into the Center for Medical Progress, which she called “a phony company.”
The issue of abortion has already caused trouble for members of Congress in both parties this year, from a bipartisan Senate bill to fight human trafficking to a House bill banning late-term abortions that drew objections over its language on rape.
Earlier this week, House leaders pulled a bipartisan bill from Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) that would have created a commemorative coin to help raise money for breast cancer research because some of that funding would have gone to Planned Parenthood.
The bill was ultimately passed Wednesday with broad support from both parties. But Maloney hinted that the delay was, in part, because of the Planned Parenthood video.
Asked if she thought the outrage over the video fueled sudden opposition to her bill, Maloney responded, “Yes.
“It is an unusual coincidence, shall we say.”
Vile monsters they are. Despicable!
What motivates these suck bags to want to kill babies, other than money, and they are just evil?
And don’t forget to buy your PP Soap on the way out. Made from the finest aborted fetuses. Makes your skin soft and kissable. You can get in the gift shop next to the Lampshades..All Proceeds go to the DNC.
The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done. (emphasis added)
--Revelation 16
Human sacrifice.
Oh, it is in the name of “convenience”, but once it was just Molech.
Democrats have said there’s no evidence that the group is violating federal laws from her remarks,
Democrats have said there’s no evidence that the group is violating federal laws from her remarks, though none of them told The Hill they had seen the video.
Democrats, with their heads in the sand, combined with disordered minds, see no evidence that Planned Parenthood is violating federal laws. Here are some dots to connect, if you can:
Abortion: No Life
Contraception: No Life.
Same sex marriage: No Life.
Satan loves chaos and is the Prince of Death
Only God creates life.
Democrats support the Culture of Death.
Get it?
Well, as a centrist myself I completely agree. It seems like premeditated murder, just like Benghazi.
It’s all Population Control.
The eugenicist ideology of Margaret Sanger permeates our government and most of our elected officials.
Basically, it means more for them if they kill off as many people as possible.
Doing it like the Chicoms, Soviets, Nazis, and ISIS is too obvious. They will do it through abortion and a “health care” system that kills people with incompetency and neglect.
And they’re betting on a little help from their genocidal Moslem helpers. They use them as pathogens to help reduce population.
As for pathogens, the flood of people over the borders carrying pathogens we haven’t seen for generations in the states will also ultimately help reduce the population.
See, it’s all about “mother erf”, and more for the elites.
They don’t need as many people, now that they have machines to do their bidding.
This isn't some strange mystery. We are forced to pay for people to murder other people and sell their body parts. God help us.
“no evidence”
That’s a pretty lame defense. How about “no evidence YET.” It’s pretty hard to defend the indefensible, so they have to go with arguments like “no controlling legal authority”, or attacking the people who dare to bring it up.
Stay on the attack, conservatives! Make them try to defend their evil.
I can imagine a leftist surgeon stitching the baby body parts together and giving it an electrical jolt to bring it back to life - the next Obama candidate.
They are closet racists,the majority of abortions terminate a black person’s life.
Caught that, too. Peters means "It's a buzzed-up non-issue inflated for partisan purposes.
In a purely rational sense, it should surprise no-one that these people would seek to profit from their butchery. They are seeing their state and federal funding dry up, so if they can turn a few bucks from selling the residue of their labors then it only helps them continue their activities. In their minds they see nothing wrong with it since they see nothing wrong with killing the fetus in the first place.
Child molesters - everyone of them.
The Democrats would defend them.
One should ask these Dems if its wrong to sell a whole human for profit why is it ok to sell parts.
Do the mothers of the aborted children get a piece of the action?
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