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Since undercover videos that captured Planned Parenthood staff discussing fetal tissue donations were released last month, GOP officials in more than 10 states have clamored to launch investigations into the organization. On Tuesday, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley joined that group, ordering her state's health department to review the policies and practices of all abortion clinics in the state, including the three operated by Planned Parenthood.
"These practices are not consistent with the laws or character of our state," Haley wrote in her letter to the state agency tasked with regulating abortion clinics, adding that it "cannot allow an organization with broken internal oversight and a flawed corporate culture to behave the way Planned Parenthood has in other states."
In the videos, recorded surreptitiously and released by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood officials talk frankly about the organization's tissue donation program and the costs associated with donating fetal tissue from an abortion. Though fetal tissue donation is a longstanding and legal practice in the U.S., and has contributed to medical advancements like the polio vaccine, conservatives have used the videos to attack the healthcare organization, saying they provide evidence that Planned Parenthood illegally profits from the sale of aborted fetuses. And they've pushed for investigations to unmask this purported criminal wrongdoing.
But so far, those investigations are falling flat. Completed probes in Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, and South Dakota have spent thousands in taxpayer money, but turned up no evidence that Planned Parenthood is trafficking in the sale of fetal tissue. And in most of the other states that have launched investigationsincluding Ohio, Arizona, Texas, and KansasPlanned Parenthood affiliates don't even have fetal tissue donation programs, making it hard to believe the states will find any illegal activity related to the practice. In Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered an investigation in mid-July, Planned Parenthood does not even operate a single clinic.
"In every state where these investigations have concluded, officials have cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing," Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation, told the Huffington Post. "We've said all along that Planned Parenthood follows all laws and has very high medical standards, and that's what every one of these investigations has found."
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malaise
(269,157 posts)just remember the Acorn bullshit - Shirley Sherod, etc. M$Greedia always gives them a pass and rarely retracts when they fall flat on their faces as they always do.
Even some Democrats buy the BS.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Even after their lies are exposed.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)But the videos have served the intended purpose of the GOP. They have planted the message that they wanted into the crazy-glue brains of their ditto head followers.
dembotoz
(16,826 posts)flash in the pan my ass
Gothmog
(145,496 posts)The videos were heavily edited and bogus
90-percent
(6,829 posts)I know his heavily edited to the point of being false gotcha video technique worked great for crushing ACORN, but, other than the absence of journalistic integrity of both groups, how in any way is O'Keefe formally affiliated with the PP propaganda video haters?
-90% Jimmy
suffragette
(12,232 posts)http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/15/who-made-the-planned-parenthood-video.html
A 2009 post from Johnson refers to James OKeefe, the undercover activist behind the 2009 ACORN videoswhich seemed to show community organizers condoning prostitution and tax evasion, until investigators found that the tape had been edited to meet [an agenda] and subsequently cleared ACORNas a friend of David Daleidens. OKeefe has been publicly supporting Daleidens recent sting on Twitter:
90-percent
(6,829 posts)DU is sometimes like my own private squad of truth seekers. I do go to DU when google fails me about some point or another.
Thanks again,
-90%
djean111
(14,255 posts)brush
(53,840 posts)voter IDs, to announcing the wrong voting day in Dem areas , to putting doubt in students minds as to whether they can vote in their college town, to claiming mass instances of voter fraud (unfounded), and many other dirty tricks which include Citizens United, the false Acorn video, advocating for the repeal of the 14th Amendment and this false Planned Parenthood video.
They all know the video is edited falsely but they hurriedly draft legislation in multiple jurisdictions and try to push bills through before the videos' falsification is well known to the public.
And they can count on the corporate media to keep mum on reporting the results of investigations which disclose the falsehoods.
That's how they got rid of Acorn and they hope to torpedo Planned Parenthood in the same way.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)This is the new mode of RW annihilation of anything that helps people (rather than generating money).
It doesn't matter that the videos are obvious frauds, because the only intent is to create a slanderous myth to use as an excuse.
It's grotesque and inhuman.
I hope it doesn't work this time, but it still might.