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Last week, Planned Parenthood came under fire for claiming that the Center for Medical Progress videos were fake<\/a>. Despite analyses by\u00a0multiple independent firms\u00a0that\u00a0found no trace<\/a> of\u00a0manipulation or tampering,<\/a>\u00a0Planned Parenthood is still trying to trick\u00a0the public into believing that the entire scandal was invented by pro-life activists.<\/p>\n

In addition, they’re trying to claim that they have been found innocent of any wrongdoing<\/a> in 12 separate investigations:<\/p>\n

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Officials in 12 states have concluded investigations into claims that Planned Parenthood profited from fetal tissue donation and each one has cleared Planned Parenthood of wrongdoing. Another eight states have declined to investigate based on a lack of evidence. This underscores what this is really all about–politics. And then \u2014 when politically motivated investigations turned up nothing \u2014 politicians in states like Ohio, Florida and Missouri pressed on anyway with their defunding attempts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And just like the claim that the videos were “fake,” this bold-faced lie doesn’t hold up, either.<\/p>\n

First, Planned Parenthood has been accused of breaking the law in a handful of states, and has been fined for abuses. An investigation in Florida revealed that\u00a0Planned Parenthood was allegedly committing illegal second-trimester abortions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

South Carolina<\/a> and Ohio<\/a> both found Planned Parenthood guilty of illegally dumping aborted babies in landfills, and the governor of Kentucky even\u00a0sued Planned Parenthood for performing illegal abortions<\/a>. Pennsylvania, too, found egregious abuses, and discovered\u00a0that\u00a0Planned Parenthood stored the bodies of aborted babies in janitors’ closets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In addition to these findings, several states, such as California and Colorado, outright refused to investigate Planned Parenthood. And then there’s Texas,\u00a0a state that Planned Parenthood has been eager to use as an example.<\/p>\n

A Harris County grand jury indicted David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt<\/a>, two Center for Medical Progress investigators, in a move that almost immediately came under fire after Harris County prosecutor Lauren Reeder was found to be a director of one of the Planned Parenthood facilities\u00a0under investigation.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, Daleiden and Merritt were\u00a0indicted for allegedly attempting to buy fetal body parts; however,\u00a0in order to buy the parts, Planned Parenthood would need to be selling them. This is something that Planned Parenthood has been suspiciously quiet about.<\/p>\n

However, just because Daleiden and Merritt were indicted does not mean that Planned Parenthood is innocent. After the indictments, Governor Greg Abbott released a statement<\/a> announcing that the investigation into Planned Parenthood is still ongoing. To this day, it has not concluded and Planned Parenthood is still being investigated.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is, Planned Parenthood was found to have allegedly broken the the law<\/a> by selling the body parts of aborted babies, sometimes even killing babies that survived abortions in order to harvest their body parts. This shouldn’t be surprising by now; Planned Parenthood has long\u00a0believed\u00a0they\u00a0are\u00a0above the law<\/a>,\u00a0but it’s time for officials to\u00a0hold them accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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