Thanks to the posturing by the so-called Center for Medical Progress:
"The videos attracted widespread media coverage, and after the release of the first video,
conservative Congressional lawmakers singled out Planned Parenthood and began to push bills that would strip the organization of federal family planning funding.
No such attempts by Congress to cut federal family planning money from Planned Parenthood have become law. Conservative
politicians in several states have also used this as an opportunity to cut or attempt to cut family planning funding at the state level.
"
Officials in twelve states initiated investigations into claims made by the videos, but
none found Planned Parenthood clinics to have sold tissue for profit as alleged by CMP and other anti-abortion groups. An investigation by the United States
House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee found no evidence of wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood. A select committee, the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood, was formed to further investigate Planned Parenthood. The Republican-controlled Select Investigative Panel released its final report on December 30, 2016, recommending that Planned Parenthood be de-funded. The report was heavily criticized as partisan and inaccurate by Democratic members of the committee, Planned Parenthood, and some news media.
"On
January 25, 2016, a Texas grand jury indicted CMP founder David Daleiden and member Sandra Merritt while finding no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood. The charges against Daleiden and Merritt in Texas were dismissed six months later. On
March 28, 2017, Daleiden and Merritt were charged with 15 felonies in the State of California - one for each of the people whom they had filmed without consent, and one for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy. On June 21, 2017, all the invasion of privacy charges (but not that of conspiracy) were dismissed with leave to amend. Soon after, the State of California re-filed amended charges.[1][2] "
"In a less-edited version of the first video,
PPFA staff repeatedly state that the organization makes no money from tissue donations, and that the US$30–100 charge only covers procurement costs.[3] PPFA have said they may donate fetal tissue at the request of a patient, but such tissue is never sold.[3][12] At one point in the video, a PPFA staffer states "nobody should be 'selling' tissue," and "that's just not the goal here".[13]
"According to
several experts in the field, the money Planned Parenthood received for fetal tissue was too little to make any profit for Planned Parenthood and constituted reasonable compensation for the costs of procurement, as allowed by Federal law. These experts included Sherilyn J. Sawyer, the director of Harvard University's and Brigham and Women's Hospital's biorepository; Jim Vaught, president of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories and formerly the deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research; and Carolyn Compton, the chief medical and science officer of Arizona State University's National Biomarkers Development Alliance and a former director of biorepositories and biospecimen research at the National Cancer Institute.[13]
"On
October 13, 2015, Planned Parenthood announced it would no longer accept reimbursement for the costs of collecting and shipping fetal tissue to research labs. Citing an "anti-abortion agenda" by some in Congress, Planned Parenthood stated the move was designed to remove a reason for politically motivated attacks.[14][15]"
(My emphasis - more @ the URL -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_2015_undercover_videos_controversy)
Yep, a human fetus will yield a human, if carried to term & nothing untoward happens to affect the health of the woman or the embryo. Why do you belabor that? The Supreme Court bypassed the question altogether, it wasn't @ issue.
