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Lawmakers Examine Whether Antiabortion Videos Broke Laws
wsj ^ | Aug. 20, 2015 1:22 p.m. ET | Stephanie Armour

Posted on 08/20/2015 10:29:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The Center for Medical Progress, which released its seventh video Wednesday, didn’t immediately return a call and email seeking comment. In an earlier statement, the Irvine, Calif., group said it would contest any attempts to suppress its free-speech rights. It also said in a statement on its Facebook page that it “follows all applicable laws in the course of our investigative work.”

The letter reflects a growing offensive from state and congressional Democrats in their support of Planned Parenthood. The center is under investigation in two states, and a group of congressional Democrats has called on the Justice Department to launch a probe into whether the antiabortion group broke any laws, such as recording without consent.

Antiabortion advocates have said the videos show Planned Parenthood is illegally profiting from fetal tissue from abortions that it provides for research. Planned Parenthood said it has broken no laws, and that the videos are heavily edited and part of a smear campaign.

Planned Parenthood is also under investigation by congressional committees and some states.

The letter from Mr. Cummings says that the center’s “disturbing actions” raise questions about whether members of Congress were made aware of the center’s potentially illegal actions but took no action before the videos went public. It names Rep. Tim Murphy (R., Pa.), chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, as one member who was aware of potentially illegal activities by the center weeks before the videos went viral

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: abortion; california; deathpanels; facebook; irvine; obamacare; pennsylvania; plannedparenthood; timmurphy; zerocare
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1 posted on 08/20/2015 10:29:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Good to know they have their priorities straight.


2 posted on 08/20/2015 10:30:24 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: BenLurkin

Blow it out your substantial ass Cummings!


3 posted on 08/20/2015 10:31:55 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: BenLurkin

Splitting baby’s faces open for brains is fine, but secretly video taping the monsters that do this is not?

Leftists are absolute psychopaths.


4 posted on 08/20/2015 10:32:30 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: BenLurkin

Daniel Ellsberg broke laws when he handed the top-secret Pentagon Papers over to the New York Times, and the Left loved it.


5 posted on 08/20/2015 10:32:40 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: BenLurkin

Wow. Just...wow. Never mind what the truth is, let’s focus on the legality of the whistle-blowers’ actions in bringing it to light.


6 posted on 08/20/2015 10:32:43 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow (Cleganebowl 2016 - GET HYPE!)
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To: BenLurkin

Told a fib to catch mass murderers? That’s not going to hurt anyone’s feelings. The Planned Parenthood damage is done, though I doubt anyone will go to jail. Those of us who are anti-baby-murder and anti-baby-part-sales realize just how gross the world is and we won’t forget.


7 posted on 08/20/2015 10:33:24 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: BenLurkin

Really? That is what they are concerned about?


8 posted on 08/20/2015 10:34:34 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: BenLurkin

First, who is Cummings? Second, “some” minority party “Democrats” are not “lawmakers” with any legislative powers in the sense of having any authority..

Frankly, they’re on the wrong side of this and they can just suck it.


9 posted on 08/20/2015 10:34:35 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: BenLurkin
"It names Rep. Tim Murphy (R., Pa.), chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, as one member who was aware of potentially illegal activities by the center weeks before the videos went viral"

Why would Rep. Murphy need to investigate something that the left can't show breaks a single law?

10 posted on 08/20/2015 10:35:15 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: BenLurkin

Today - Democrats would bring up American Troops up on charges for liberating the WWII death camps


11 posted on 08/20/2015 10:35:35 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: BenLurkin

shoot the messenger!

we must never show videos of vivisection of brains being pulled from the skulls of babies with beating hearts or gasping fetuses twitching in laboratory pans

unbelievable


12 posted on 08/20/2015 10:36:29 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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"the center’s potentially illegal actions"

What does this even mean? If Rep. Cummings can show any illegality then do it - he's had a month and a half dozen staffers to investigate the matter.

13 posted on 08/20/2015 10:38:23 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: BenLurkin

We have three more releases of video from this investigative group. ech video has been more gruesome nthen the last. I am betting the last video will be a doozy


14 posted on 08/20/2015 10:38:44 AM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: BenLurkin

Catching democrats being evil is illegal.


15 posted on 08/20/2015 10:39:08 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Steely Tom

Bingo!


16 posted on 08/20/2015 10:39:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Ruh-Oh. 60 Minutes used to do this all the time and showed on national tv. What’s the diff? Congress has nothing better to do? After what they’ve shown, at this point, what difference does it make? Heh

So we’ve got a live birth abortion, intact brain dissection for sale and the priority is how the video was obtained? Really?


17 posted on 08/20/2015 10:39:28 AM PDT by wildwoodla
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To: circlecity

“Why would Rep. Murphy need to investigate something that the left can’t show breaks a single law? “

Cummings is saying that Murphy needs to be prosecuted.


18 posted on 08/20/2015 10:39:28 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is intended to scare people off from doing a similar video sting operation.


19 posted on 08/20/2015 10:40:58 AM PDT by uncitizen ("When a liberal speaks, a liberal is lying" - Mark Levin)
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To: Zhang Fei
"Cummings is saying that Murphy needs to be prosecuted."

Yeah, prosecuted for not investigating something that he (Cummings) can't show is illegal. This is just a fundraising pitch to PP by Cummings.

20 posted on 08/20/2015 10:43:43 AM PDT by circlecity
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