Monday, September 28, 2015

Cecile Richards ‘Proud’ of Planned Parenthood’s Organ Harvest but Claims ‘Minuscule’ Activity



Cecile Richards ‘Proud’ of Planned Parenthood’s Organ Harvest but Claims ‘Minuscule’ Activity
by Breitbart News 28 Sep 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Planned Parenthood’s first congressional appearance since the release of undercover videos, the group’s president is defending its provision of fetal tissue for researchers and castigating Republicans for not investigating the anti-abortion activists who furtively made the recordings.

In testimony prepared for a hearing Tuesday, Cecile Richards said the organization’s donation of tissue from aborted fetuses is a “minuscule” part of its work proving health services for women. She said the group has nearly 700 clinics but obtains fetal tissue in less than 1 percent of them.

“Planned Parenthood is proud of its limited role in supporting fetal tissue research,” she said, arguing that the donations have helped scientists search for cures.

Abortion opponent David Daleiden obtained the videos by posing as an executive of a fake company seeking to supply fetal tissue to researchers. Richards said Daleiden, despite three years of doing that, didn’t entrap any Planned Parenthood officials into doing anything illegal.

“It is clear they acted fraudulently and unethically – and perhaps illegally,” Richards said. “Yet it is Planned Parenthood, not Mr. Daleiden, that is currently subject to four congressional investigations” by the GOP-run Congress.

Congressional Democrats have demanded that Daleiden be called to testify, but Republicans have ignored those pleas.

The videos ignited a political uproar among conservatives and Republicans that has revived abortion as a potent issue for the 2016 presidential and congressional campaigns, with many GOP presidential candidates condemning the group.

Conservatives’ demands that Congress cut Planned Parenthood’s federal payments – for which Republicans lack the votes to succeed – indirectly contributed to the GOP unrest that prompted House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) 35%, R-Ohio, to announce his resignation last week. The organization receives about a third of its $1.3 billion annual budget, around $450 million, from federal coffers, chiefly reimbursements for treating Medicaid patients.

Richards’ testimony was provided by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where she was set to appear. Her prepared remarks contained little her organization has not already said since the abortion foes began releasing the videos in July.

Conservatives and some Republicans say Planned Parenthood has broken federal laws forbidding sales of fetal tissue for profit. The group has denied breaking any laws.

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Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.          
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).      
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)
Ted Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the chairman for the Turner Foundation, and the founder of CNN.
Cecile Richards was a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation, is the president for the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Walter Isaacson was the chairman & CEO for CNN, and is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Jack Valenti was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
Ann McLaughlin Korologos was a chair emeritus at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and married to Tom C. Korologos.
Tom C. Korologos is married to Ann McLaughlin Korologos, and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
John A. Boehner is a member of the Burning Tree Club, the House leader for the Republican establishment, and the speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives.

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