House speaker wants hearings on Planned Parenthood video

[Archae]

Source: WBAY, ABC affiliate from Green Bay, WI

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner called on congressional committees Wednesday to investigate whether Planned Parenthood is selling organs from aborted fetuses. He also said President Barack Obama should denounce the practice.

The statement by Boehner, R-Ohio, came a day after an anti-abortion group circulated a video it secretly made showing a Planned Parenthood official discussing the disposal of body parts from aborted fetuses.

Planned Parenthood has said the video was heavily edited. It says the organization legally helps women who want to donate their fetus’ organs for scientific research, and says it does not profit by donating the organs to science.


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ACORN 2.0 is in effect.

[randys1]

1. TIme to physically remove the children from all positions of power, this is ridiculous

I volunteer

Not violence, just need to take some buses to the House and Senate and one by one, take them by the hand, lead the children in adult bodies out of these halls of power and take them back to the car washes where they worked before they were elected.

[yeoman6987]

3. They should go to capital hill and explain what they do

It will make the GOP look foolish again. This only helps the Democratic Party.

[blm]

2. Let's call Mitt Romney to testify about Stericycle's profits from aborted tissues.

Mother Jones/2012:

Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show
And these documents challenge Romney's claim that he left Bain Capital in early 1999.

[Jamastiene]

10. ^THIS n/t

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Election season faux outrage.

This is just to rile up their base and get our side to respond, under the theory that anyone explaining themselves on abortion is "losing." No one should take this seriously or offer an official response. It's bait. Don't take it.

[still_one]

5. waste more money you POS. The republican party is the party of Trump, and it is now the party of

racists, sexists, anti-environment, anti-labor, war mongering vermin.

They have come a long way since Lincoln.

[murielm99]

6. Let them have their investigations.

Have our side show up with plenty of documentation about this group. Publicize it to high heaven.

And yes, get Mittens up there to testify about his company. If he won't do it, get someone else to speak about it.

[Jamastiene]

11. Yep.

That's the way to point out their hypocrisy and that half of them have their hands in the cookie jar they are complaining about.

[rocktivity]

7. ABORT-GHAZI!

There are roving gangs who drag pregnant women off the street, forcibly abort them, and harvest the fetal organs? Oh, and about this recording -- was it taken legally?


rocktivity

[deminks]

8. Smells like O'Keefe to me.

Well, what do you know, it is O'Keefe. I wondered when he would try to make himself relevant again.



http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/07/15/live_action_distributed_the_planned_parenthood_sting_video_why_aren_t_they.html

[nykym]

9. A simple solution

Invite the Center for Medical Progress to bring both the edited version and the full unedited version of the video and have our esteemed congress critters sit through both.

[jmowreader]

18. You're assuming they still have the full unedited version

Be honest with yourself. If you had decided to make a video like the one Center for Medical Progress did, and you had a LOT of unused footage on a memory card that proved your edited video was bullshit, your first step after completing the edited video would be to take a three-pound sledgehammer to the memory card. "No officer, there isn't anything else and there's no way to prove there is or ever was."

[nykym]

21. there appears to be

an unedited video plus a complete transcript.
go figure???
I cannot view it right now.

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So if they both exist BAZINGA!

[Javaman]

12. the republicans: trying to run a government via tabloid news. nt

[blm]

14. Ain't that the truth!!!

They don't know how to govern like adults - the GOP's idea of adult leadership is Bush/Cheney.

They get the bulk of their 'news' and information about this nation and its governance from RW propagandists developed over the last 3 decades by a Korean cult leader and an Australian extortionist. And few even know that dark, irrefutable truth.

[CrispyQ]

13. Boehner has more concern over aborted fetuses than he does veterans.

Fucked up priorities.

[Vinca]

15. Bring on the hearings. It will show the world Boehner is a fool.

[beerandjesus]

16. I think Planned Parenthood is stashing the organs in Hillary's email server.

I trust that Mr. Gowdy will get to the bottom of this!

[jmowreader]

19. They won't fit in a server; they will fit in an underwear drawer

They're right next to the Whitewater documents.

[beerandjesus]

23. I don't know, depends on how big the case is.....

...and how much space is taken up by your hard drive and cabling. I could probably fit a couple dozen fetal kidneys in my desktop at home, anyway!

I still think you probably nailed it with the drawer though, hahaha!

[maxrandb]

17. Another example of the way

the Reich-Wing echo chamber can get Congressional Hearings on a BS issue, reinforced by highly edited and suspect "undercover" video.

What they are doing is what we used to call the last day of the month when I was a Navy recruiter. We called it "Spaghetti Day", when we would throw every applicant package against the wall and see what sticks.

[Dawson Leery]

20. +1

[wolfie001]

22. Tossing red meat to their stupid base before the election.

Repuke-controlled hearings up to Nov. 2016. Plus: Benghazi!!!!!

[Ford_Prefect]

24. They need to examine under oath the credentials of the film's producer,

and identify in no uncertain terms who paid them to make the video.
Then they should insist on seeing the unedited complete version, And then there should be a short recess while the thumbscrews are installed...

[Gregorian]

25. The things these crazy people will do to ensure unlimited growth.

[tanyev]

26. Yes, we should investigate this organization that harasses people providing health care for women,

heavily edits videos, and makes a general nuisance of themselves.


Oh, that's not what he meant?

[Ford_Prefect]

30. The thumbscrews are for Mr. Okeefe's portion of the evidence...

since he undoubtedly had something to do with inventing it.

[Novara]

27. oh for fuck's sake

Lots of companies donate tissue for research, which is all this is. Even including Romney's company. Nobody's "harvesting" or selling anything.

Go ahead, have hearings. The more they make fools of themselves, the better chance we have at replacing them during the next election.

I keep thinking there will be a tipping point with this anti-abortion nonsense at some point and the public will finally say ENOUGH. I ave no idea if or when that might happen, but In Just the Last Four Years, States Have Enacted 231 Abortion Restrictions. It's already ridiculous.

[riversedge]

29. Living in WI-I think there has to

be a tipping point a long time ago--I am still waiting.

[riversedge]

28. Congress Launches Planned Parenthood Investigation After Sting Video

I have to wonder why the PP person talked so freely to this creep over lunch--knowing how groups are out to get them.. To me-after viewing most of the unedited film--the optics are not good for PP. She must have trusted him completely.

That said, the Bone man is jumping the gun on this one. But, The Republicans will have another Benghazi- type hit committees (plural) with this one. They will not let go and Fox news is all over this one.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/15/planned-parenthood-investigation_n_7803530.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016

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Congress Launches Planned Parenthood Investigation After Sting Video
Posted: 07/15/2015 2:21 pm EDT Updated: 07/15/2015 2:59 pm EDT


House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called for an investigation into Planned Parenthood on Wednesday.............

"When an organization monetizes an unborn child -- and with the cavalier attitude portrayed in this horrific video -- we must all act," Boehner said in a statement. "As a start, I have asked our relevant committees to look into this matter. I am also calling on President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to denounce, and stop, these gruesome practices.

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The House Committee on Energy and Commerce followed suit shortly after, announcing an immediate investigation into Planned Parenthood. "This video is abhorrent and rips at the heart," committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said in a statement. "The committee will get to the bottom of this appalling situation."

The sting video, produced by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, shows Planned Parenthood physician Dr. Deborah Nucatola describing how she would attempt to preserve fetal tissue and parts during an abortion for patients who decide to donate them for medical research. In the video, Nucatola tells the undercover actor that clinics can be reimbursed $30 to $100 per specimen for the cost of transporting and donating the fetal tissue.
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"These outrageous claims are flat-out untrue, but that doesn't matter to politicians with a longstanding political agenda to ban abortion and defund Planned Parenthood," said Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications at Planned Parenthood. "Women and families who make the decision to donate fetal tissue for lifesaving scientific research should be honored, not attacked and demeaned. Our medical practices and guidelines in this area are clear, and we do this important work just like other high-quality health care providers -- with full, appropriate consent from patients, under the highest ethical and legal standards, and with no financial benefit for the patient or Planned Parenthood."......................