To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Defend Planned Parenthood
Certain partisan members of Congress are leaping to judgment over a
heavily edited video, recorded apparently illegally, in yet another
of the incessant initiatives to defund Planned Parenthood.
The fact is that those behind this video sting tried and failed to
get Planned Parenthood to take substantial sums of money for the
procurement of fetal tissue.
The fact is that the sums being discussed, $30 to $100, for the costs
of transportation and storage only, are expressly authorized by
federal law applicable not just to Planned Parenthood, but to any
other organization, and Planned Parenthood is in full compliance with
that law.
The fact is that the law in question, to make such research materials
available, has been responsible for tremendous breakthroughs, saving
literally millions of lives.
But if members of Congress don't like the law they passed, and want
to shut down such important medical research, then the debate should
be about whether to change the law or not, and not about whether to
blame Planned Parenthood for following it to the letter.
heavily edited video, recorded apparently illegally, in yet another
of the incessant initiatives to defund Planned Parenthood.
The fact is that those behind this video sting tried and failed to
get Planned Parenthood to take substantial sums of money for the
procurement of fetal tissue.
The fact is that the sums being discussed, $30 to $100, for the costs
of transportation and storage only, are expressly authorized by
federal law applicable not just to Planned Parenthood, but to any
other organization, and Planned Parenthood is in full compliance with
that law.
The fact is that the law in question, to make such research materials
available, has been responsible for tremendous breakthroughs, saving
literally millions of lives.
But if members of Congress don't like the law they passed, and want
to shut down such important medical research, then the debate should
be about whether to change the law or not, and not about whether to
blame Planned Parenthood for following it to the letter.
Why is this important?
Remember the people who dressed up as a pimp and a whore to try to
wrongfully entrap ACORN a number of years ago and also did a parallel
sting on Planned Parenthood? The SAME basic people are behind the
elaborate multi-year sting operation which surfaced the other day as
a deceptively edited video that so many Republican presidential
contenders are going all demagogue about.
The costumed entrappers were lucky to have been granted immunity from
prosecution for their various illegal recordings before. And we hear
the Justice Department is not taking these new incidents lightly.
wrongfully entrap ACORN a number of years ago and also did a parallel
sting on Planned Parenthood? The SAME basic people are behind the
elaborate multi-year sting operation which surfaced the other day as
a deceptively edited video that so many Republican presidential
contenders are going all demagogue about.
The costumed entrappers were lucky to have been granted immunity from
prosecution for their various illegal recordings before. And we hear
the Justice Department is not taking these new incidents lightly.