Missouri AG finds no evidence Planned Parenthood mishandled fetal tissue

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

An investigation in Missouri found no evidence that Planned Parenthood's St. Louis clinic mishandled fetal tissue or engaged in unlawful activity, Attorney General Chris Koster's office said on Monday.

Koster's office had launched an investigation after an anti-abortion group released videos over the summer alleging that Planned Parenthood in other states illegally sold fetal tissue.

"The evidence reviewed by my investigators supports Planned Parenthood's representation that fetal tissue is handled in accordance with Missouri law," Koster said in a news release. "We have discovered no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Planned Parenthood's St. Louis facility is selling fetal tissue."

The Attorney General's Office interviewed workers at Planned Parenthood, the only licensed surgical abortion facility in Missouri, and reviewed documents from all 317 abortions during a 30-day audit, according to the statement. The investigation found that all tissue from abortions was examined at a pathology lab then incinerated.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/28/us-usa-plannedparenthood-missouri-idUSKCN0RS1UR20150928

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US | Mon Sep 28, 2015 11:18am EDT

[CincyDem]

1. I'm sure this will force Carly's hand. She'll quadruple down on the lie no doubt.

"Who you going to believe...a former republican turned democrat in 2007 who has examined the facts or my lyin' eyes?"

I'm sure we'll hear that from her campaign soon.



It just frustrates me so much some times that there are so many people who can put so much effort into denying facts.

On a side note - it's time for my annual "will the tux still fit dance" in preparation for SW Ohio's Planned Parenthood event this weekend. Should be lots of fun conversation given that the state of Ohio (that would be Kasich's Ohio) just shut them down here. Not sure if it's true but the Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Cincinnati is now the largest metropolitan area without a provider of pregnancy termination services. Sheesh.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

6. there are so many people who can put so much effort into denying facts.

And so few in the media that will tell the truth about it. It's the old "he said, she said" mediators. That's all they are anymore.

[olegramps]

18. She is nothing more than a Fascist Neo-Con bitch.

[Backwoodsrider]

2. PP selling baby parts for a Lamborghini is one of the only planks in the GOPs platform

If the fake videos are proven wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt people are going to run away from the republican party. The truth is finally coming out, been waiting years for this.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. Yet, the news will not be reported on FUX. So the dummies will still believe the lies.

[Backwoodsrider]

9. do not worry about the Fox news viewer

They are probably not going change. I am more concerned with mainstream conservative voters. Those are the ones that I hope are getting fed up with the Republican insanity and might take a second look at the political parties in 2015 and decide their vote after reasonable evaluation of the issues and not out of programed fear and hatred as many Fox viewers do..

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

13. I'm not encouraged - from my own research they ALL watch Fox almost exclusively

Or exclusively.

[kacekwl]

15. Problem is you might just might

see a 5 second blip on this finding one time on local news . Of course nothing on Fox or other cable news.

[riversedge]

3. Some other states have also investigated PP and found no wrongdoing but

this short article does not mention that.

[Darb]

4. How many states have found the same?

Is this 6 or 7?

[Fred Sanders]

5. What is this thing you call "evidence"? Is this thing needed for any purpose? The GOP thinks not.

Evidence.

Remember when you actually needed some to smear another?

Now all you needed are heavily edited tapes produced by folks with an open agenda, or heavily promoted email follies also blown up into a smear.

No evidence required, or wanted.

[rladdi]

8. Why would they find any evidence when the videos are false, made up, edited to make Plan Parenthood

look bad. The GOP survives and gets elected on LIES and Mis-information.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. So, Florida and Missouri concur. No misuse of fetal tissue.

Anyone keeping track?

[Backwoodsrider]

11. nope the GOP cannot forward their platform based on lies anymore

They been pushing lies for too long now some of their mainstream people are waking up and more and more conservative voters distrust the GOP and their false soundbites. Hope the democrats jump on this and tell everyone the GOP lies are more about fear and hatred than truth or even evidence.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. Pushing lies is the entire raison d'etre of the GOP

"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - G.W. Bush

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels

[Backwoodsrider]

14. wonder if GW and Goebbels had a vest interest in people believing in the power pf propaganda

I think human consciousness and the universe is more powerful than a few lying black and white thinkers. We are going to gradually leave their way of thinking as we build our own.

[niyad]

16. and this is in woman-hating missouri--

[Dont call me Shirley]

17. The study must have been faked...