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On Wednesday, the Congressional Judiciary Committee conducted\u00a0its first hearing on the investigation of Planned Parenthood. Titled \u201cPlanned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation\u2019s Largest Abortion Provider,\u201d this first hearing featured expert witnesses and revealed some truly shocking details about the inhumane practices of Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

But later that day, in a memo<\/a> to the House\u00a0Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, the Democrats of the House <\/span>Committee on Energy and Commerce<\/span>\u00a0quickly\u00a0came to the defense of\u00a0Planned Parenthood. The memo attempts to discredit Center for Medical Progress\u2014the group behind the undercover videos\u2014 and to portray the hearing as nothing more than political game-playing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Claiming that “there is no evidence that Planned Parenthood<\/span>\u00a0or its affiliates\u00a0have violated any\u00a0federal or state laws,” the Democrat politicians\u00a0behind the memo made every attempt to explain away Planned Parenthood’s illegal actions. The memo\u00a0even turns blame on Center for Medical Progress, and\u00a0makes a point to highlight\u00a0the benefits of fetal tissue research.<\/p>\n

\"DefundAd-400b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a> posted to the Center for Medical Progress website, David Daleiden responded to the Democrats’ memo…<\/p>\n

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It is telling that the House Energy & Commerce Committee\u2019s Minority Memo, drafted by Planned Parenthood\u2019s political cronies, can only cite multiple contracts between Planned Parenthood affiliates and Tissue Procurement Organizations which explicitly confirm that Planned Parenthood charges per fetus and per fetal body part for only high-quality procured tissue specimens, but the Memo cannot cite any evidence at all of actual costs incurred by Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

The facts are clear that Planned Parenthood receives substantially scalable payments for harvested fetus body parts, but there is still no evidence that these payments correspond in any way to any actual costs.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood\u2019s political cronies, paid for with Planned Parenthood\u2019s abortion and baby parts money, continue to abuse the English language the credulity of the American people by shrilly insisting that Planned Parenthood\u2019s admissions of payment for baby parts and alterations to abortion procedures are not evidence of criminal activity and barbaric atrocities against humanity that the American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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