{"id":79534,"date":"2015-11-09T15:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=79534"},"modified":"2015-11-09T13:51:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:51:45","slug":"rep-blackburn-defends-mission-house-planned-parenthood-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rep-blackburn-defends-mission-house-planned-parenthood-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Blackburn defends mission of House Planned Parenthood committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), the head of the <a href=\"\/news\/u-s-house-votes-to-create-special-panel-to-investigate-planned-parenthoods-sale-of-baby-parts\/\">House special panel<\/a> to investigate Planned Parenthood, is pledging an examination of the abortion industry that &#8220;follow[s] the law&#8221; and will &#8220;follow the facts and see where that takes us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know anyone who has watched these videos who was not unsettled and disturbed by those videos,&#8221; she continued, decrying the &#8220;casual and callous nature&#8221; with which officials captured on tape by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerformedicalprogress.org\/\">Center for Medical Progress<\/a> discussed &#8220;these little unborn babies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->However, Blackburn also noted that \u201cour charge is not specific to Planned Parenthood,\u201d but will perform a broader investigation of all entities involved in harvesting organs and tissue from aborted babies, late-term abortion practices, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativereview.com\/commentary\/2015\/09\/a-comprehensive-guide-to-planned-parenthood-funding\">federal funding of abortion providers<\/a>, and whether abortion providers <a href=\"\/news\/a-guide-to-how-planned-parenthood-is-breaking-the-law\/\">are following laws<\/a> requiring them to care for babies born alive after botched abortions<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood&#8217;s defenders have condemned the special panel as a politically-motivated witch hunt, with pro-abortion House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi going so far as to label it &#8220;the Select Committee to Attack Women\u2019s Health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, as Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-owns-congressional-committee-investigating-it\/\">previously reported<\/a>, the six Democrats Pelosi named to the committee are the recipients of a combined total of more than $86,917, while the pro-abortion Emily&#8217;s List has given more than $112,000 to just two of the panel&#8217;s representatives and NARAL Pro-Choice America over $50,000 to another two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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