{"id":68411,"date":"2015-07-28T18:21:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T22:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=68411"},"modified":"2015-07-28T19:15:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T23:15:42","slug":"planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas is a bit worried because the Texas legislature has wasted no time in launching an investigation into the abortion giant. Tomorrow,\u00a0 the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services <\/a>has a hearing on its schedule. The legislative website says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n
Charge: Examine the business practices and regulatory structure of Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas, and investigate whether state or federal laws are being broken by Planned Parenthood and\/or its affiliates in Texas in regards to the donation and\/or sale of fetal tissue. Consider recommendations to strengthen regulations on abortion providers, including further restrictions on the sale of fetal tissue by these entities.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

“Scientists Say Fetal Tissue Research Rare, But Potentially Powerful<\/a>,” Houston Chronicle<\/em>, July 19, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

“State Leaders Order Investigations Into Fetal Organ Preservation<\/a>,” Texas Tribune<\/em>, July 15, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Texas Penal Code \u00a7 48.02<\/a>, Prohibition of the Purchase and Sale of Human Organs<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

42 U.S. Code \u00a7\u2009289g<\/a>, Fetal Research, \u00a7 289g-1<\/a>, Research on Transplantation of Fetal Tissue, and \u00a7 289g-2<\/a>, Prohibitions Regarding Human Fetal Tissue<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

45 C.F.R. \u00a7\u00a7 46.201-46.207<\/a>, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Additional Protections for Pregnant Women, Human Fetuses and Neonates Involved in Research<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yvonne Gutierrez, executive director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes, sent out a plea to supporters today saying that more “highly-edited” and “doctored” videos were forthcoming and Planned Parenthood needs supporters to join them in a rally outside the Texas Capitol tomorrow from 9-10:30 a.m.:<\/p>\n

\n

Now the political allies of this extremist group have joined the smear campaign and called for a legislative hearing tomorrow<\/span><\/span> in Austin. The alliances between anti-choice politicians and this extremist group are clear. This hearing is not about the truth; this is political grandstanding. And we know Texans aren\u2019t fooled and won\u2019t stand for it.<\/p>\n

The committee is not allowing any public testimony. We need to make sure the voices of all of those who stand with Planned Parenthood are heard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course her letter includes a fill-in-the-blank letter to send to Texas legislators. It’s identical to the form letter Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards sent today<\/a>, asking people to send to Congress. This letter is unique only in its opening lines<\/a>: “This hearing is not about the truth; this is political grandstanding. And Texans aren’t fooled and won’t stand for it.”<\/p>\n

However, Gutierrez and Richards probably know that it’s the American people who are no longer fooled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas is a bit worried because the Texas legislature has wasted no time in launching an investigation into the abortion giant. Tomorrow,\u00a0 the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services has a hearing on its schedule. The legislative website says: Charge: Examine the business practices and regulatory structure of Planned Parenthood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":59788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[246,4127,14,3831,82,4429,4430],"yoast_head":"\nPlanned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Texas legislature has wasted no time in launching an investigation into Planned Parenthood. Tomorrow, the Senate Committee on HHS will hold a hearing.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Texas legislature has wasted no time in launching an investigation into Planned Parenthood. Tomorrow, the Senate Committee on HHS will hold a hearing.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-28T22:21:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-07-28T23:15:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/texas-state-capitol.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"671\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"387\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Catherine Livingston, PhD\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Catherine Livingston, PhD\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Catherine Livingston, PhD\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/e546e5fbb46d771bbe66c0ab7690156c\"},\"headline\":\"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-28T22:21:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-07-28T23:15:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/\"},\"wordCount\":405,\"commentCount\":9,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Cecile Richards\",\"fetal parts\",\"Planned Parenthood\",\"Planned Parenthood Texas\",\"Texas\",\"Texas Senate\",\"Yvonne Gutierrez\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Newsbreak\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/\",\"name\":\"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal - Live Action News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-28T22:21:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-07-28T23:15:42+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Texas legislature has wasted no time in launching an investigation into Planned Parenthood. Tomorrow, the Senate Committee on HHS will hold a hearing.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/e546e5fbb46d771bbe66c0ab7690156c\",\"name\":\"Catherine Livingston, PhD\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/429a591954a90dff112876f5f329b226?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/429a591954a90dff112876f5f329b226?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Catherine Livingston, PhD\"},\"description\":\"Catherine Livingston holds a PhD in education from a major U.S. university, and is a researcher and writer who has been a teacher and speaker in the pro-life movement since 2008. Born as the result of rape, she was placed for adoption and is passionate about issues of life.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/catherine-livingston\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal - Live Action News","description":"The Texas legislature has wasted no time in launching an investigation into Planned Parenthood. Tomorrow, the Senate Committee on HHS will hold a hearing.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal - Live Action News","og_description":"The Texas legislature has wasted no time in launching an investigation into Planned Parenthood. Tomorrow, the Senate Committee on HHS will hold a hearing.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2015-07-28T22:21:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-07-28T23:15:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":671,"height":387,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/texas-state-capitol.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Catherine Livingston, PhD","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Catherine Livingston, PhD","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/"},"author":{"name":"Catherine Livingston, PhD","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/e546e5fbb46d771bbe66c0ab7690156c"},"headline":"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal","datePublished":"2015-07-28T22:21:36+00:00","dateModified":"2015-07-28T23:15:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/"},"wordCount":405,"commentCount":9,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["Cecile Richards","fetal parts","Planned Parenthood","Planned Parenthood Texas","Texas","Texas Senate","Yvonne Gutierrez"],"articleSection":["Newsbreak"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/","name":"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal - Live Action News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-07-28T22:21:36+00:00","dateModified":"2015-07-28T23:15:42+00:00","description":"The Texas legislature has wasted no time in launching an investigation into Planned Parenthood. Tomorrow, the Senate Committee on HHS will hold a hearing.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-face-texas-legislature-tomorrow\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Planned Parenthood to face Texas legislature tomorrow at hearing on fetal parts scandal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/e546e5fbb46d771bbe66c0ab7690156c","name":"Catherine Livingston, PhD","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/429a591954a90dff112876f5f329b226?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/429a591954a90dff112876f5f329b226?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Catherine Livingston, PhD"},"description":"Catherine Livingston holds a PhD in education from a major U.S. university, and is a researcher and writer who has been a teacher and speaker in the pro-life movement since 2008. Born as the result of rape, she was placed for adoption and is passionate about issues of life.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/catherine-livingston\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68436,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68411\/revisions\/68436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}