Posted on 08/29/2015 2:27:44 PM PDT by Morgana
The Planned Parenthood abortion business has filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama after Governor Governor Robert Bentley made the decision to yank its taxpayer funding. The state cut Planned Parenthood’s funding after a national scandal involving the abortion company selling the body parts of aborted babies.
This is the second Planned Parenthood lawsuit against a state for its decision to revoke taxpayer funding — following a suit against pro-life Louisiana Governro Bobby Jindal after his state canceled a state contract with Planned Parenthood. After Louisiana and other states yanked taxpayer funding, the Obama administration threatened them — but Louisiana officials indicated they would stand their ground.
After the first expose’ videos were released, Governor Robert Bentley announced that Alabama would also be cutting all state taxpayer funding to the abortion company.
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“The deplorable practices at Planned Parenthood have been exposed to Americans. I’ve terminated any association with the organization in Alabama,” he said on Twitter. “As a doctor and Alabama’s Governor, the issue of human life, from conception to birth and beyond, is extremely important to me. I respect human life, and I do not want Alabama to be associated with an organization that does not.”
Planned Parenthood Southeast filed the lawsuit against Gov. Robert Bentley Friday saying that he violated federal law by cancelling the state funding. Planned Parenthood Southeast abortion business CEO Staci Fox said Alabama officials were “hell-bent on ending a woman’s ability to make her own deeply personal and private health decisions.”
“Governor Bentley is trying to dictate where a woman can go for contraception and other preventive care if she’s enrolled in Medicaid,” the abortion company said. “Meanwhile, Alabama is dealing with some of the nation’s worst health outcomes, and restricting access to providers will do nothing to help the urgent problems we face.”
Other states also de-fnuded Planned Parenthood in light of the massive controversy. In New Hampshire, the Republican-led Executive Council has rejected roughly $650,000 in state taxpayer funding for the abortion company. The move followed Senate Democrats defeating a bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood.
Today, the Center for Medical Progress released the full, uncut video of the conversation between undercover investigators form CMP and top officials with StemExpress, which buys aborted babies and their body parts from Planned Parenthood. The full footage is of a shorter video that summarized the meetings earlier this week.
The release of the full, unedited video also comes one day after Planned Parenthood released a new report claiming the eight videos released exposing it were “altered.” The abortion giant says the videos were manipulated and therefore not eligible for serious inquiry by Congress, which has launched two joint investigations of the abortion corporation. Still, Planned Parenthood’s own paid for experts admitted that there was no evidence of any manipulation of the audio in any of the eight shocking videos.
Meanwhile, two committees in the House of Representatives have already launched investigations of Planned Parenthood. One committee is looking into whether or not the abortion business is breaking federal law by altering abortion procedures to better obtain aborted baby body parts for sale. Another committee, among other things, is investigating the Obama administration and whether there is any connection between it and the abortion giant.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wants to know if the Obama administration, via the Department of Health and Human Services, provided any federal grants to Planned Parenthood that ultimately went to pay for the sales of aborted baby body parts and if they were used by Planned Parenthood to “support transactions involving fetal tissue.”
The expose’ videos catching Planned Parenthood officials selling the body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation. Here is a list of all eight:
* In the first video: Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.” * In the second video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joked, “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price for baby parts. * In the third video: Holly O’Donnell, a former Stem Express employee who worked inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the unspeakable atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs. * In the fourth video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde stated, “We don’t want to do just a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.” She also laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that were “good to go.” * In the fifth video: Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of Planned Parenthood’s skill in obtaining “intact fetal cadavers” and how her “research” department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in the United States.” * In the sixth video: Holly O’Donnell described technicians taking fetal parts without patient consent: “There were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.” * In the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video: Holly O’Donnell described the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs from a nearly intact late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose, CA. “‘You want to see something kind of cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think.”
So far, 12 states have responded to the Planned Parenthood videos and launched investigations into their abortion and organ harvesting business including South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Kansas, Missouri, Arizona, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, Texas and Louisiana. The district attorney in Houston Texas is also investigating after the Houston-based Planned Parenthood abortion facility was caught selling aborted babies.
Congress has expanded its investigation into the Planned Parenthood abortion business and five states have revoked taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood’s abortion business, including Utah, Arkansas, Alabama, New Hampshire and Louisiana and Iowa’s governor has ordered a review of Planned Parenthood funding.
The full, unedited videos have confirmed that revelations that some aborted baby remains sold by Planned Parenthood go to biotech companies for the purpose of creating “humanized” mice. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood has been exposed as having sold body parts from aborted babies for as much as 15 years.
The federal law that technically prohibits the sale of aborted babies and their body parts was written by a pro-abortion Congressman decades ago and essentially spells out a process by which sellers of aborted baby body parts can meet certain criteria that allows the sales to be legal. That’s why a Colorado congressman has introduced legislation to totally ban the sales of aborted baby body parts.
Interesting thought: Is government funding of an entity inherently a contract? It’s not like the situation where the government contracts to buy a defined number of things, like vehicles, airplanes, or cleaning services.
I would think that if no contract is there, it boils down to whether or not the governor of a state has the authority and discretion over the part of the budget out of which PP is funded. If the governor has line item veto authority... fuhgeddaboutit.
Good. They can use the money they were going to pay PP on lawyers to defend their action.
I wonder .... is there any kind of contract that a governor is violating by pulling the funding ?
Who Ray for Ala.
Why would any tax exempt non profit have a right to receive taxpayer money?
Let private donors give to your cause if they believe in it.
in 38 years there will be a judgement
The Alabama taxpayers need to countersue the PP butchers for murdering Alabama infants.
So now these murderers feel they are entitled to the taxpayer money. Nonsense!!!
Even if PP was a bunch of sweet old ladies teaching girls to lock their knees together, the government has no damn business confiscating the *earnings* that I work damn hard for and giving them to *anyone* else.
James Madison (the father of our Constitution) wrote disapprovingly, “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
Dr. Thomas puts it this way, “What exactly is your *fair share* of what someone else has worked for?”
Time for DISCOVERY. PP will fold like a cheap lawn chair.
Do you remember the beggar on Fiddler on the Roof who asks the poor but generous Tevye the Dairyman why he should suffer without his handout just because Tevye has fallen on hard times?
The fact that poor Tevye works hard for everything he earns and has a large family to support is totally lost on the beggar.
The State of AL is going to have fun during the discovery process!
State list ping!
There is no wonder the Democrats support PP and Hillary admires Margaret “kill the unfit” Sanger.
www.ewtn.com/library/prolife/pphistry.txt
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