Abbott announced anti-abortion intiative, targets Planned Parenthood
Source: Austin American-Statesman
Gov. Greg Abbott announced an anti-abortion initiative Friday in response to last months undercover videos which showed Planned Parenthood representatives discussing the legal practice of harvesting tissue from aborted fetuses. The announcement signals a continued effort to restrict abortions in Texas.
Abbotts initiative, dubbed LIFE, spells out a broad legislative effort to further penalize doctors who violate laws governing the procedure in Texas, one of the most restrictive states. It also signals the governors goal to wrest state and federal funding of Planned Parenthood completely, even though by law public money cannot pay for abortions.
The governors announcement is the latest reaction to videos released last month by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, which showed a Planned Parenthood doctor in California discussing how some clinics harvest and donate tissue from aborted fetuses a legal practice so long as tissues arent sold for profit.
Gruesome and potentially illegal harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood cannot be allowed in Texas, Abbott said in a statement Treating unborn children as commodities to be sold is an abomination. The barbaric practice of harvesting and selling baby body parts must end.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/abbott-announced-anti-abortion-intiative-targets-p/nnSsf/
Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Vinca
(50,278 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)Look what Operation Rescue tried to pull in Texas.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/12/20/texas-abortion-provider-now-twice-cleared-of-wrongdoing-after-operation-rescue-attacks/
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Does he considering that harvesting? Safe bet if he or a member of his family needed a kidney or liver, he wouldn't hesitate.
Yes, these are rhetorical questions because another safe bet he could give an obese rodent hindquarters about embryos or fetuses. He's just part of the lynch mob out for women's rights.
ananda
(28,866 posts)... women are going to have to die, and how many children
are going to go hungry before there's an uprising like the
one we need NOW !!!
area51
(11,910 posts)but as you're disabled, don't even think about reaping any benefits from medical breakthroughs that will come from fetal tissue experiments.
cynzke
(1,254 posts)First, Texas requires Planned Parenthood to run separate clinics for abortions and other services in order to keep the federal funding from the abortion clinic. And Planned Parenthood stopped taking tissue donations in 2010. ABBOTT IS MISLEADING!