Florida Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio sat down this weekend for a lengthy interview with KCCI News 8, a CBS affiliate in Iowa. Within that interview, he suggested that someone is selling and profiting from aborted fetal tissue. But, uh, who? Who’s doing that? Follow us in this nightmare of a sentence…
Yesterday, a U. S. District Court in Northern California ruled that the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the group that has released “sting” videos targeting Planned Parenthood, must turn over evidence. The Hill reports: “Judge William Orrick said in a hearing that the Center for Medical Progress must comply with…
The GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee is having themselves a very reasonable and neutral-sounding hearing on Planned Parenthood today, sensitively entitled “Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider.” Not invited to testify: a single person…
The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has released its eighth video purporting to show five Planned Parenthood employees breaking federal laws. In the heavily-edited two-minute video, the five employees discuss the costs associated with transporting tissue (CMP claims that those discussions amount to the organization…
On Friday, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson ended the state’s contracts with Planned Parenthood. Arkansas is the third state to defund the organization, Alabama and Louisiana both ended their contracts earlier this month.
The anti-abortion and moderately sketchy Center for Medical Progress continues to churn out videos claiming Planned Parenthood is little more than a barbaric baby-harvesting mill staffed by infant-hating demons. The latest few have centered around interviews by a woman named Holly O’Donnell, who describes herself as…
The Senate is expected to vote Monday on S. 1881, a bill to “defund Planned Parenthood,” i.e. take away $528 million in federal funding from the non-profit on the strength of some sketchy videos from some sketchy folks. And if they don’t manage to defund PP, GOP senators are more than happy to shut down the…
David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, the moderately sketchy group behind the recent undercover videos attacking Planned Parenthood, has begun stepping out for interviews, telling CNN Friday he plans to release “eight to 10” more videos, and telling the National Review that Planned Parenthood…
The Los Angeles Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday prohibiting the ironically-named Center for Medical Progress from releasing its latest video, which features officials from fetal tissue provider StemExpress.
At a clown car of a press conference this afternoon, nine Republican senators vied to show the American public who hates abortion the worst, vowing to defund Planned Parenthood so hard, you bet. By that, I guess, they mean taking away Title X funding, the federal money used for family planning services. Planned…
Recently Planned Parenthood has been entangled in what their president Cecile Richards refers to as a “smear campaign.” Accused of selling fetal parts by way of highly suspect videos from anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, Congress has initiated investigations into the organization. Yet some of those…
The Texas Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, like politicians in several other states, is taking advantage of the heavily edited videos by the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress which purport to show Planned Parenthood illegally selling fetal tissue. At the same time, a Planned Parenthood in Houston…
Last week, a group calling itself the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released an undercover video claiming to show a Planned Parenthood physician selling body parts harvested from fetuses. Though the video was heavily edited and didn’t show anything illegal—tissue donation is both legal and heavily regulated the…
An undercover video is circulating from a group calling itself the Center for Medical Progress, which purports to show a Planned Parenthood employee discussing the sale of body parts from aborted fetuses. In a statement, PP says the video is false and portrays a deeply misleading portrait of their practice of donating…
