One more time. Films that purport to show Planned Parenthood selling baby parts are deceptively edited fraud. They spin the truth into lies. If you believe these videos, as Republicans in Congress apparently did, you’re a dunce.
Planned Parenthood is not selling baby parts. They are allowed by law to let mothers donate fetal tissue, which would otherwise be thrown away, to medical researchers. This kind of research has led to cures for polio and other diseases. Planned Parenthood was allowed to recover costs for storage and transportation.
Of nearly 700 Planned Parenthood clinics in the U.S., only two — one in California and one in Washington state — were supplying fetal tissue to researchers. In October, Planned Parenthood said it will no longer accept reimbursement for this.
Of all the services Planned Parenthood offers, abortions make up about 3 percent, according to PP. A Washington Post report takes issue with that but doesn’t offer an alternative number. We now return you to the fact-free world.
