Posted on 08/27/2015 5:57:36 PM PDT by markomalley
Planned Parenthood is launching a counterattack to defend itself in the wake of increased pressure on its public image and government funding sources due to a series of undercover videos exposing its abortion business.
Since July 14, the Center for Medical Progress has released eight videos — edited versions accompanied by full footage and transcripts — centered on Planned Parenthood’s role in procuring fetal tissue and body parts from aborted children to companies that process them for scientific researchers. The videos feature frank discussions with Planned Parenthood officials about the abortion industry almost never seen in public discourse on abortion.
Although a measure provoked by the videos to withdraw $528 million in federal funds failed in an Aug. 3 vote in the Senate — despite being supported by a 53-46 majority that included two Democrats, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Joe Donnelly of Indiana — the nation’s single largest provider of abortions is taking action in hopes of preserving a major source of its income from anticipated repeated efforts by Congress to defund it.
House and Senate congressional committees are investigating whether Planned Parenthood violated any federal laws for its role in procuring tissues from aborted children and whether there is connection with federal money and the Obama administration.
Planned Parenthood has decided to target with an advertising campaign four Republican senators whose seats are up for reelection in 2016: Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Rob Portman of Ohio and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
The ad buy is six-figures according to Politico. The ads, running in the senators’ respective states, allege they will shut down the government in order to defund the organization and put women’s health at risk.
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Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards makes two key admissions today in Planned Parenthood’s letter to Congress: that Planned Parenthood gets paid $60 per baby body part harvested, and that Planned Parenthood doctors alter their abortion procedures to get higher-quality body parts. Both of these admissions speak to Planned Parenthood’s financial benefit and profit motive for supplying fetal tissue, and both are the points CMP’s videos have documented and illustrated from the very beginning. When a Tissue Procurement Organization handles all dissection, packaging, and shipping of fetal organs, and all Planned Parenthood does is spend 10 minutes consenting a patient, the $60 per body part harvested quickly adds up to illegal baby parts profit for Planned Parenthood. And when a Planned Parenthood doctor manipulates the abortion to get higher-quality baby parts, they are prizing Planned Parenthood’s financial interests ahead of women’s health.
Planned Parenthood’s desperate, 11th-hour attempt to pay their hand-picked “experts” to distract from the crimes documented on video is a complete failure. The absence of bathroom breaks and waiting periods between meetings does not change the hours of dialogue with top-level Planned Parenthood executives eager to manipulate abortion procedures to get high-quality baby parts for financially profitable sale. While even Planned Parenthood’s “experts” found “no evidence of audio manipulation” in the recordings, it is telling that Planned Parenthood is trying so hard to pretend that their staff did not refer to a dismembered fetus as “a baby” and “another boy.” Planned Parenthood’s abortion providers are far more honest about the brutal reality of their work than the paid political consultants at the national office. If Planned Parenthood really wants to disprove the now-overwhelming body of evidence that their affiliates traffick in baby body parts, they should release their fetal tissue contracts with the for-profit company StemExpress for law enforcement, Congress, and all the world to see.
There is NOTHING redeemable in the use of dead children for anything. There is no video PP could show to get them off the hook.
Taxpayers are paying for these ads. The rest is just shell game to say that these are 'other' PP funds paying for the ads.
The Obama stimulus was designed to funnel money to Left wing causes and fund the next umpteen election cycles. Give money to the base groups and get it back in the elections.
Where’s the IRS? Oh, wait...
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