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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama Administration: No Known Violation of Fetal Tissue Laws
Obama Administration: No Known Violation of Fetal Tissue LawsAs state-level investigations into Planned Parenthood continue to find that the health-care provider has not broken any laws by donating fetal tissue for medical research, the Obama administration is now saying that it has found no evidence of wrongdoing among either government researchers who work with fetal tissue or companies that supply it.
Politico reports that Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assistant secretary Jim Esquea sent a letter Friday to Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) confirming that HHS knows of no violation of federal fetal tissue laws in connection with the research done at our agencies.
Ernst and Blunt co-sponsored a failed bill that would have defunded Planned Parenthood over spurious allegations of wrongdoing by the Center for Medical Progress, an anti-choice front group that has released deceptively edited and possibly illegal undercover videos attacking Planned Parenthoods fetal tissue donation program.
Furthermore we have confirmed that HHS researchers working with fetal tissue obtained the tissue from non-profit organizations that provided assurances to us that they are in compliance with all applicable legal requirements, the letter said.
HHS noted that fetal tissue research conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes up less than 0.1 percent of the agencys research budget, and that HHS has gotten reaffirmations from government researchers and government-funded researchers that they are complying with the law.
GOP lawmakers are preparing to launch congressional investigations into Planned Parenthood based on the unsupported allegations in CMPs videos, despite numerous state-level investigations that have so far come up empty.
Read more: http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/08/17/obama-administration-known-violation-fetal-tissue-laws/
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Obama Administration: No Known Violation of Fetal Tissue Laws (Original Post)
Novara
Aug 2015
OP
I am waiting for the day all the monstrous propagandists that created this criminal smear are
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#3
Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)1. Rebublican investigations...
...of Dems = "Guilty! - before and after been proved not guilty."
spanone
(135,841 posts)2. K&R...
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. I am waiting for the day all the monstrous propagandists that created this criminal smear are
all arrested and take their GOP and Fox backers down with them...this smear can not be allowed to pass as the ACORN smear was....otherwise, as opined by some just before no one listened and the ACORN smear was allowed to pass, there will be no end to the manufactured and carefully planned political propaganda.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)4. Planned Parenthood did not break any law