Planned Parenthood Will Pay Its Own Fetal Tissue Costs,Responding to a furor over clandestine videos, Planned Parenthood says it will beforehand programs at some of its clinics that accomplish fetal tissue accessible for research, but will no best acquire any array of transaction to awning the costs of those programs.
Anti-abortion activists who afresh appear a alternation of covertly filmed videos accept arguable that Planned Parenthood admiral approved profits from their programs accouterment post-abortion fetal tissue to researchers. Planned Parenthood said the videos were deceptively edited and denied gluttonous any payments above accurately acceptable agreement of costs.The new action — abnegating even permissible agreement — was categorical in a letter beatific Tuesday by Planned Parenthood's president, Cecile Richards, to Dr. Francis Collins, the administrator of the National Institutes of Health.
"Planned Parenthood's behavior on fetal tissue donation already beat the acknowledged requirements," Richards wrote. "Now we're traveling even added in adjustment to yield abroad any base for advancing Planned Parenthood to beforehand an anti-abortion political agenda."
The videos were appear starting in mid-July by a accumulation of anti-abortion activists calling themselves the Center for Medical Progress. Activists airish as assembly of a biomedical close and approved to accommodate the acquirement of fetal organs from some Planned Parenthood personnel.
Republicans in ascendancy of Congress accept responded to the videos by ablution several investigations of Planned Parenthood, forth with efforts to cut off the organization's federal funding. Most of that allotment is agreement for Medicaid patients accepting blight screenings, contraception and added non-abortion services.
Planned Parenthood says its fetal tissue programs currently yield abode in alone two states -- California and Washington — at about a half-dozen of the 700 bloom centers run by the alignment nationwide.
Planned Parenthood's controlling carnality president, Dawn Laguens, said the Washington accompaniment associate already had a action of accepting no agreement for its costs, and the California associate will now chase the aforementioned policy.
"I don't anticipate it will accept a huge appulse on their budget," Laguens said. "For Planned Parenthood, this was consistently about one affair — anniversary the admiration of women to accord to lifesaving research. It was never about money."
While affairs fetal tissue for accumulation is illegal, a 1993 law anesthetized by Congress with bipartisan abutment allows women who abide abortions to accord fetal tissue for use in accurate research. The law accustomed entities bartering the tissue to balance the costs of active such programs.
During the three-month altercation over the videos, some of Planned Parenthood's critics accept alleged a ban on analysis application donated fetal tissue. However, there has been able aegis of the convenance from aural the medical and accurate establishment.
The Department of Bloom and Animal Services, in a letter to Congress in August, said fetal tissue "continues to be a analytical ability for important efforts such as analysis on degenerative eye disease, animal development disorders such as Down syndrome, and communicable diseases, a part of a host of added diseases."
Anti-abortion activists who afresh appear a alternation of covertly filmed videos accept arguable that Planned Parenthood admiral approved profits from their programs accouterment post-abortion fetal tissue to researchers. Planned Parenthood said the videos were deceptively edited and denied gluttonous any payments above accurately acceptable agreement of costs.The new action — abnegating even permissible agreement — was categorical in a letter beatific Tuesday by Planned Parenthood's president, Cecile Richards, to Dr. Francis Collins, the administrator of the National Institutes of Health."Planned Parenthood's behavior on fetal tissue donation already beat the acknowledged requirements," Richards wrote. "Now we're traveling even added in adjustment to yield abroad any base for advancing Planned Parenthood to beforehand an anti-abortion political agenda."
The videos were appear starting in mid-July by a accumulation of anti-abortion activists calling themselves the Center for Medical Progress. Activists airish as assembly of a biomedical close and approved to accommodate the acquirement of fetal organs from some Planned Parenthood personnel.
Republicans in ascendancy of Congress accept responded to the videos by ablution several investigations of Planned Parenthood, forth with efforts to cut off the organization's federal funding. Most of that allotment is agreement for Medicaid patients accepting blight screenings, contraception and added non-abortion services.
Planned Parenthood says its fetal tissue programs currently yield abode in alone two states -- California and Washington — at about a half-dozen of the 700 bloom centers run by the alignment nationwide.
Planned Parenthood's controlling carnality president, Dawn Laguens, said the Washington accompaniment associate already had a action of accepting no agreement for its costs, and the California associate will now chase the aforementioned policy.
"I don't anticipate it will accept a huge appulse on their budget," Laguens said. "For Planned Parenthood, this was consistently about one affair — anniversary the admiration of women to accord to lifesaving research. It was never about money."
While affairs fetal tissue for accumulation is illegal, a 1993 law anesthetized by Congress with bipartisan abutment allows women who abide abortions to accord fetal tissue for use in accurate research. The law accustomed entities bartering the tissue to balance the costs of active such programs.
During the three-month altercation over the videos, some of Planned Parenthood's critics accept alleged a ban on analysis application donated fetal tissue. However, there has been able aegis of the convenance from aural the medical and accurate establishment.
The Department of Bloom and Animal Services, in a letter to Congress in August, said fetal tissue "continues to be a analytical ability for important efforts such as analysis on degenerative eye disease, animal development disorders such as Down syndrome, and communicable diseases, a part of a host of added diseases."
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