NEW YORK (AP) — Responding to a furor over undercover videos, Planned Parenthood says it will maintain programs at some of its clinics that make fetal tissue available for research, but will no longer accept any reimbursement to cover the costs of those programs. Anti-abortion activists who recently released a series of covertly filmed videos […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House neared creation Wednesday of a special committee to investigate Planned Parenthood and its procurement of fetal tissue as Republicans continued pressing an issue that has galvanized conservatives since secret videos surfaced this summer. A vote establishing the select panel was expected to fall closely along party lines, with Democrats dismissing […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of Planned Parenthood defended the women’s health organization Tuesday before a Republican-run Congress bent on slashing its federal funding, telling lawmakers that accusations against her group fed by stealthily recorded videos are “offensive and categorically untrue.” In Planned Parenthood’s first appearance before Congress since those videos emerged this summer, Republicans […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will likely lose Monday’s Senate showdown over halting federal aid to Planned Parenthood. Yet the political offensive by abortion foes has just started, prompted by a batch of unsettling videos that has focused attention on the group’s little-noticed practice of providing fetal tissue to researchers. Conservatives have long targeted Planned Parenthood, […]
Roland Martin talks with Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, about the attack on Planned Parenthood and women’s healthcare access.
