House panel recommends cutting funding for Planned Parenthood, reigniting old debate

[DonViejo]

By Mike DeBonis January 4 at 7:21 PM

A House panel formed by Republicans to investigate the procurement of human fetal tissue for medical research has recommended stripping federal funds from Planned Parenthood, heralding a new congressional assault on the nation’s largest provider of abortions and women’s health care.

The GOP majority on the Select Investigative Panel included the recommendation in the 471-page final report, which was issued Tuesday on the dissolution of the panel. It was formed in 2015 after antiabortion activists recorded a series of undercover videos that they said documented abuses by abortion providers and intermediaries that provide fetal tissue to researchers.

Over strong objections from Democrats, medical groups and abortion rights supporters, Republicans issued subpoenas to dozens of clinics, procurement firms and research institutions. Their final report suggests that some clinics and firms are illegally profiting from fetal-tissue transactions and that their business arrangements could create an incentive to perform more abortions.

While GOP panel members denied targeting Planned Parenthood as they conducted their investigation, the report closely scrutinizes several of the organization’s affiliates, accusing them of “careless management” and “a general disinterest in clinical integrity.”

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[BlueCaliDem]

1. People need to remember one important fact: Gov't is about allocating funds. That's all. That's it.

Repubs want to allocate more of our tax dollars to already obscenely wealthy corporations and a few pet projects to keep their sheeple happy, and Democrats want to allocate government funding (paid for by working Americans) to help working and non-working Americans and "the lesser among us".

It's that simple.

Republicans are the enemy within.