The Center for Medical Progress's bogus hit job on Planned Parenthood

[niyad]

(shades of that disgusting, lying creep o'keefe. my thanks to the du'er who brought this to my attention!)

The Center for Medical Progress's bogus hit job on Planned Parenthood


This story has been reported-- carelessly, without regard for the truth in anti-choice activist circles-- as yet another way to attack Planned Parenthood... this time for allegedly "selling body parts." The offender is right-wing anti-choice front group The Center For Medical Progress.

(the fulll version, without any context)

The truth, from Planned Parenthood VP of Communications Eric Ferrero:
“In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases. Women at Planned Parenthood who have abortions are no different. At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does -- with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards. There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or for Planned Parenthood. In some instances, actual costs, such as the cost to transport tissue to leading research centers, are reimbursed, which is standard across the medical field.

“A well funded group established for the purpose of damaging Planned Parenthood’s mission and services has promoted a heavily edited, secretly recorded videotape that falsely portrays Planned Parenthood’s participation in tissue donation programs that support lifesaving scientific research. Similar false accusations have been put forth by opponents of abortion services for decades. These groups have been widely discredited and their claims fall apart on closer examination, just as they do in this case.”

Jessica Glenza at The Guardian:
Planned Parenthood’s US headquarters has denied that an eight-minute undercover video shows the abortion provider’s medical director offering to sell fetal body parts to a tissue procurement company, as a pro-life group has claimed.

“In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases. Women at Planned Parenthood who have abortions are no different,” Planned Parenthood’s vice president for communications, Eric Ferrero, said in a statement.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/14/1402287/-The-Center-for-Medical-Progress-s-bogus-hitjob-on-Planned-Parenthood#

[marym625]

1. Sometimes I just can't help but hate people

I hate to hate but sometimes, there's just nothing else that's appropriate

Thanks for posting

[niyad]

2. you are most welcome. there are days (many) when I feel as you do.

(one is seriously tempted to make poppets)

[marym625]

3. I feel ya.

Sigh.

[Beaverhausen]

4. Ugh. Just saw a Media Matters post on this on Facebook

Apparently Fox is covering it. Ugh

[niyad]

5. of course they are. can't let such a juicy piece go unnoticed,

[niyad]

6. . . .