House speaker wants hearings on Planned Parenthood video
Source: WBAY, ABC affiliate from Green Bay, WI
WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker John Boehner called on congressional committees Wednesday to investigate whether Planned Parenthood is selling organs from aborted fetuses. He also said President Barack Obama should denounce the practice.
The statement by Boehner, R-Ohio, came a day after an anti-abortion group circulated a video it secretly made showing a Planned Parenthood official discussing the disposal of body parts from aborted fetuses.
Planned Parenthood has said the video was heavily edited. It says the organization legally helps women who want to donate their fetus organs for scientific research, and says it does not profit by donating the organs to science.
Read more: http://wbay.com/ap/house-speaker-wants-hearings-on-planned-parenthood-video/
ACORN 2.0 is in effect.
randys1
(16,286 posts)I volunteer
Not violence, just need to take some buses to the House and Senate and one by one, take them by the hand, lead the children in adult bodies out of these halls of power and take them back to the car washes where they worked before they were elected.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)It will make the GOP look foolish again. This only helps the Democratic Party.
blm
(113,136 posts)Mother Jones/2012:
Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show
And these documents challenge Romney's claim that he left Bain Capital in early 1999.
Qutzupalotl
(14,344 posts)This is just to rile up their base and get our side to respond, under the theory that anyone explaining themselves on abortion is "losing." No one should take this seriously or offer an official response. It's bait. Don't take it.
still_one
(92,526 posts)racists, sexists, anti-environment, anti-labor, war mongering vermin.
They have come a long way since Lincoln.
murielm99
(30,785 posts)Have our side show up with plenty of documentation about this group. Publicize it to high heaven.
And yes, get Mittens up there to testify about his company. If he won't do it, get someone else to speak about it.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)That's the way to point out their hypocrisy and that half of them have their hands in the cookie jar they are complaining about.
rocktivity
(44,588 posts)There are roving gangs who drag pregnant women off the street, forcibly abort them, and harvest the fetal organs? Oh, and about this recording -- was it taken legally?
rocktivity
deminks
(11,027 posts)Well, what do you know, it is O'Keefe. I wondered when he would try to make himself relevant again.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/07/15/live_action_distributed_the_planned_parenthood_sting_video_why_aren_t_they.html
nykym
(3,063 posts)Invite the Center for Medical Progress to bring both the edited version and the full unedited version of the video and have our esteemed congress critters sit through both.
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)Be honest with yourself. If you had decided to make a video like the one Center for Medical Progress did, and you had a LOT of unused footage on a memory card that proved your edited video was bullshit, your first step after completing the edited video would be to take a three-pound sledgehammer to the memory card. "No officer, there isn't anything else and there's no way to prove there is or ever was."
nykym
(3,063 posts)an unedited video plus a complete transcript.
go figure???
I cannot view it right now.
So if they both exist BAZINGA!
Javaman
(62,540 posts)blm
(113,136 posts)They don't know how to govern like adults - the GOP's idea of adult leadership is Bush/Cheney.
They get the bulk of their 'news' and information about this nation and its governance from RW propagandists developed over the last 3 decades by a Korean cult leader and an Australian extortionist. And few even know that dark, irrefutable truth.
CrispyQ
(36,567 posts)Fucked up priorities.
Vinca
(50,334 posts)beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)I trust that Mr. Gowdy will get to the bottom of this!
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)They're right next to the Whitewater documents.
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)...and how much space is taken up by your hard drive and cabling. I could probably fit a couple dozen fetal kidneys in my desktop at home, anyway!
I still think you probably nailed it with the drawer though, hahaha!
maxrandb
(15,401 posts)the Reich-Wing echo chamber can get Congressional Hearings on a BS issue, reinforced by highly edited and suspect "undercover" video.
What they are doing is what we used to call the last day of the month when I was a Navy recruiter. We called it "Spaghetti Day", when we would throw every applicant package against the wall and see what sticks.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)wolfie001
(2,320 posts)Repuke-controlled hearings up to Nov. 2016. Plus: Benghazi!!!!!
Ford_Prefect
(7,933 posts)and identify in no uncertain terms who paid them to make the video.
Then they should insist on seeing the unedited complete version, And then there should be a short recess while the thumbscrews are installed...
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)tanyev
(42,677 posts)heavily edits videos, and makes a general nuisance of themselves.
Oh, that's not what he meant?
Ford_Prefect
(7,933 posts)since he undoubtedly had something to do with inventing it.
Novara
(5,876 posts)Lots of companies donate tissue for research, which is all this is. Even including Romney's company. Nobody's "harvesting" or selling anything.
Go ahead, have hearings. The more they make fools of themselves, the better chance we have at replacing them during the next election.
I keep thinking there will be a tipping point with this anti-abortion nonsense at some point and the public will finally say ENOUGH. I ave no idea if or when that might happen, but In Just the Last Four Years, States Have Enacted 231 Abortion Restrictions. It's already ridiculous.
riversedge
(70,464 posts)be a tipping point a long time ago--I am still waiting.
riversedge
(70,464 posts)I have to wonder why the PP person talked so freely to this creep over lunch--knowing how groups are out to get them.. To me-after viewing most of the unedited film--the optics are not good for PP. She must have trusted him completely.
That said, the Bone man is jumping the gun on this one. But, The Republicans will have another Benghazi- type hit committees (plural) with this one. They will not let go and Fox news is all over this one.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/15/planned-parenthood-investigation_n_7803530.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016
Laura Bassett
lbassett@huffingtonpost.com
Congress Launches Planned Parenthood Investigation After Sting Video
Posted: 07/15/2015 2:21 pm EDT Updated: 07/15/2015 2:59 pm EDT
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called for an investigation into Planned Parenthood on Wednesday.............
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"When an organization monetizes an unborn child -- and with the cavalier attitude portrayed in this horrific video -- we must all act," Boehner said in a statement. "As a start, I have asked our relevant committees to look into this matter. I am also calling on President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to denounce, and stop, these gruesome practices.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce followed suit shortly after, announcing an immediate investigation into Planned Parenthood. "This video is abhorrent and rips at the heart," committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said in a statement. "The committee will get to the bottom of this appalling situation."
The sting video, produced by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, shows Planned Parenthood physician Dr. Deborah Nucatola describing how she would attempt to preserve fetal tissue and parts during an abortion for patients who decide to donate them for medical research. In the video, Nucatola tells the undercover actor that clinics can be reimbursed $30 to $100 per specimen for the cost of transporting and donating the fetal tissue.
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"These outrageous claims are flat-out untrue, but that doesn't matter to politicians with a longstanding political agenda to ban abortion and defund Planned Parenthood," said Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications at Planned Parenthood. "Women and families who make the decision to donate fetal tissue for lifesaving scientific research should be honored, not attacked and demeaned. Our medical practices and guidelines in this area are clear, and we do this important work just like other high-quality health care providers -- with full, appropriate consent from patients, under the highest ethical and legal standards, and with no financial benefit for the patient or Planned Parenthood."......................