Planned Parenthood will no longer take money for fetal parts

A stunning development in Planned Parenthood’s alleged illegally profiting from the sale of fetal parts has just been revealed.

The nation has been closely watching Planned Parenthood for months now after the surfacing of disturbing videos from the Center for Medical Progress. The videos featured top employees discussing a fetal parts sales business.

Planned Parenthood CEO and president Cecile Richards on Tuesday sent a letter to the National Institute of Health. Its purpose is to highlight a policy change to no longer accept what Planned Parenthood refers to as “reimbursements” for fetal parts.

The move comes as the abortion provider wishes to reduce its scrutiny from state and federal governments and the American public. Richards still communicated a political agenda in her letter, however.

In part, the letter reads:

Over the last two months, opponents of safe and legal abortion have turned patently false claims about our role in fetal tissue donation into fodder to advance their extreme political agenda – including votes in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate that would have blocked Planned Parenthood from receiving federal reimbursements for providing cancer screenings and other preventive care. I am pleased to report that those efforts, which would have jeopardized millions of people’s access to health care, have failed thus far. But this isn’t just about Planned Parenthood, and it isn’t over. These false claims are being used to advance politically motivated legislation in Congress and in state legislatures across the country to deny women access to basic health care and to impose medically unnecessary restrictions on safe and legal abortion. The American public overwhelmingly opposes this political agenda.

Richards also sees the move as a winning issue as she criticizes her opponents:

The real goal of these extremists has nothing to do with our fetal tissue donation compliance process but is instead to ban abortion in the U.S. and block women from getting any health care from Planned Parenthood. Today, we’re taking their smokescreen away and pushing forward with our important work on behalf of millions of women, men, and young people.

In a press release Rep. Diane Black found it “curious that, while Planned Parenthood officials maintain there has been no wrongdoing, they still find it necessary to change their policy following the recent undercover videos. Clearly, this was a decision motivated by optics rather than the organization’s conscience.”

Richards’ tone is political and communicates her own radical agenda. The decision still ought to be celebrated by all: Planned Parenthood will no longer be making money off of the sale of fetal parts. If they can be held to their word, that is.

 

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