{"id":66949,"date":"2015-07-17T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=66949"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:48:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:48:25","slug":"va-gov-mcauliffe-opposes-investigating-planned-parenthood-baby-parts-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/va-gov-mcauliffe-opposes-investigating-planned-parenthood-baby-parts-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Gov. McAuliffe opposes investigating Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_42109\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42109\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/McAuliffe_Herndon_crop.png\" alt=\"Terry McAuliffe\" width=\"220\" height=\"275\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry McAuliffe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite calls to do so by state Republican lawmakers, the Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/va-republicans-call-on-mcauliffe-to-investigate-planned-parenthood\/2015\/07\/16\/5be78d1c-2bec-11e5-a5ea-cf74396e59ec_story.html\">reports<\/a> that Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe opposes investigating Planned Parenthood over this week\u2019s <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-planned-parenthood-director-caught-on-tape-selling-aborted-baby-parts\/\">aborted baby parts sale revelations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor McAuliffe was disturbed by the content of the video in question,\u201d spokesman Brian Coy said,\u201d but does not believe it should be fodder for political attacks on women\u2019s access to health care.\u201d According to Coy, McAuliffe \u201cis confident that\u201d the state\u2019s existing health laws and regulations are sufficient to ensure \u201cany violation of those laws and regulations will be reported and appropriate action taken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Leaders in Congress, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, and Texas <a href=\"\/news\/state-federal-investigations-planned-parenthood-baby-parts-scandal-explode\/\">have all launched<\/a> investigations into how widespread the practices in the video are and whether Planned Parenthood is violating organ trafficking laws.<\/p>\n<p>But Virginia Delegate Jackson Miller suggests McAuliffe\u2019s reluctance to join them is political: \u201cGovernor McAuliffe received nearly $2 million in campaign contributions from the abortion industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News has previously covered, McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said while campaigning for governor he would be a \u201c<a href=\"\/news\/terry-mcauliffe-will-brick-wall-late-term-abortion\/\">brick wall<\/a>\u201d against \u201cany restrictions\u201d on abortion, including abortions past 20 weeks, and that he would <a href=\"\/news\/va-gubernatorial-candidate-terry-mcauliffe-vows-put-abortion-activism-womens-health\/\">oppose implementation<\/a> of health regulations that only one of eighteen abortion clinics in Virginia meets, despite extensive reporting of health violations in the state\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite calls to do so by state Republican lawmakers, the Washington Post reports that Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe opposes investigating Planned Parenthood over this week\u2019s aborted baby parts sale revelations. \u201cGovernor McAuliffe was disturbed by the content of the video in question,\u201d spokesman Brian Coy said,\u201d but does not believe it should be fodder for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[4178,19,4175,14,4023,385],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VA Gov. McAuliffe opposes investigating Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"VA Gov. Terry McAuliffe promised to stand against &quot;any restrictions&quot; on abortion. 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