Posted on 08/21/2015 6:28:22 AM PDT by maggief
Planned Parenthood is threatening legal action against the pro-life organization that has released a series of secretly recorded videos scrutinizing the health provider’s fetal tissue donation program.
In an exclusive interview with The Hill, Planned Parenthood's executive vice president Dawn Laguens said the group is "considering everything" in going after the Center For Medical Progress, the group behind the release of videos.
"I absolutely do believe that they have violated laws in terms of how they secured these videos," she said in an interview at the group's Washington D.C.'s headquarters. "But the fraud is also in how they have presented them and in the editing."
"We are considering everything," she said. "I'm not a lawyer — but everything is on the table when you look at these videos and the fraud and the conspiracy behind it."
She slammed Republicans for threatening to take away the group's $528 million in annual federal funding — and she predicted Planned Parenthood would defeat their conservative critics after this fall's budget battle.
"The Republican presidential candidates are completely out of step with the American people," she said.
Asked point-blank whether the group would still receive federal funds after the fall, she answered confidently: "Yes."
"I certainly believe that [we'll be funded] because I believe the American people are speaking — and our patients, the one-in-five women who rely on Planned Parenthood over their lifetime — are [speaking to lawmakers]," she said.
In the aftermath of the videos, the group's funding has become a flashpoint in the presidential race.
Republicans, including top-tier candidates such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), have called for lawmakers to end federal funding for the group.
“I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live,” Rubio said at the first presidential debate.
Laguens said that "if you look at what the American people believe — it's more important than what Sen. Marco Rubio believes."
"If every woman who had an abortion in this country stood up, this debate would be over," she said.
She criticized another presidential candidate, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), for considering showing the controversial videos at an outdoor movie screen outside of the governor's mansion.
"He is severely lagging in the polls, and I believe this is a political stunt aimed at trying to invigorate his far-right base," she said.
Laguens said their running political attack ads earlier this week will only continue.
"These ads aren't anything about fundraising," she said. "They're reminding people that their senators are taking positions that those people have said they absolutely oppose."
She called on the video creators to submit "all of the videos and the source footage unedited and they would hand it to Congress and law enforcement" instead of having to "splice it together in all sorts of crazy ways in order to tell a political story."
OH PLEASE DO, YOU MURDERING F***S!!!!
Discovery will be a bitch.
Planned Abortionhood is the single most evil organization in the world.
“Everything is on the table when you look at these videos...”
That’s right. A pie plate full of tiny arms, legs, hands, feet, livers, brains....
If every woman who had an abortion in this country stood up, this debate would be over," she said.
"If every woman who had an abortion in this country AND REGRETTED IT stood up, this debate would be over," she said.
It’s not like legal action will cost PP... they’ll be using tax dollars and/or baby-part-sales dollars to do so.
I thought Obamacare Covered EVERYTHING Planned Parenthood does for FREE, why do they need any funding at all from Taxpayers?
I agree...let’s go to court and openly discuss the baby chop shops. Which is worse-secretly taking a video and possibly editing it or taking taxpayer money to kill babies and then negotiate the selling of baby brains for a profit?
There are probably lawyers prepared to take this into court, but this would all go public. As much as CBS or Washington Post would try to pretend the court episode isn’t occurring....the internet today would pick up the whole thing and twist it in a very public fashion.
I do agree....Planned Parenthood is losing tons of state contracts and they won’t be easily regained. My guess is that it’ll dissolve at some point and get a totally new name.
I also think some folks took cash or ‘gifts of value’ on the side and never declared it on taxation....to either federal or state tax authorities, and that might be the next little problem that pops up.
oh yes! let’s get it on!
legal action!!!!!
Or they will all go to prison, if not get executed.
I’ll bet they are, LOL. They will lose, big time!!!
>>>”If every woman who had an abortion in this country stood up, this debate would be over,” she said.
Well, excluding the 5% that have committed suicide because of the psychological trauma.
DISCOVERY
I thought Obamacare Covered EVERYTHING Planned Parenthood does for FREE, why do they need any funding at all from Taxpayers?
Dr Ben Carson brought up that wonderful point. EVERYONE should be shouting that from the rooftops - including Trump - when the *wonderful* “free” services” PP provides are praised.
Looks like PP is “going to the mattresses”.
But the fraud is also in how they have presented them and in the editing.”
Snippets like “I cut into a breathing baby to get his brain” does not show anything fraud like.
By all means please file away. You might find some sympathetic leftist fascist to rule your way but the videos are out and you are toast.
They're really sucking air. They don't even seem to have a plan, except treading water in the hopes that this will all go away while they bribe and threaten politicians. They can't say privacy laws were broken, or they'd say it. They can't say the tapes aren't real, because they're complaining about the editing.
Gosh, you think it would look better if people only watched the unedited videos? Er, no, it looks worse. You get a total sense of Hannah Arendt's phrase, when she heard how the top Nazis at the Nuremberg trials described what they did to Jewish prisoners: "the banality of evil."
They sip Chardonnay, talk about trivialities, and bargain over baby parts.
What a sick and depraved woman! Her and anyone who defends PP.
“Heavily edited videos” “Mammograms” “Heavily edited videos” “Mammograms”.
Repeat as needed. Unfortunately most Americans don’t need anything more that that to go back to whatever they’re doing on their smart phones.
Planned Muderhood
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