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.
Planned
Parenthood
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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