Anti-abortion activists indicted for undercover videos smearing Planned Parenthood

[oreo]

Finally--the question of whether these video's were true or cut and edited comes out. Planned Parenthood was investigated and found to be innocent of the charges of selling baby body parts. Those that fabricated these video's by cut and editing have been placed under

"These anti-abortion extremists spent three years creating a fake company, creating fake identities, lying, and breaking the law. When they couldn't find any improper or illegal activity, they made it up," Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement.

“As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it's become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we're glad they're being held accountable,” Ferrero said.

The videos, some of which were shot in Texas, riled anti-abortion activists and prompted Republicans in Congress last summer to unsuccessfully called for cutting off funding for the organization.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has called footage from the Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston "repulsive and unconscionable." It showed people pretending to be from a company that procures fetal tissue for research touring the facility. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also opened his own investigation into the videos.

“The State of Texas will continue to protect life, and I will continue to support legislation prohibiting the sale or transfer of fetal tissue,” he said in a statement.

Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., author of the House-passed "Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015," said the she was “profoundly disappointed” in the indictments.
Grand jury in Texas indicts activists behind Planned Parenthood videos | Fox News


What a way to kill an election.

 

[easyt65]

It's really simple:
1. The Hyde Amendment should be enforced SPECIFICALLY - only in cases of incest, rape, and if the mother's life is in danger should tax dollars be used to fund abortions.
- This is NOT happening.
- Congress and the President have proven they can not be trusted to enforce the law

2. Personal Accountability - either you believe in it or you don't. Pro-abortionists want abortions on demand because they have proven they can not / will not accept the consequences of their own actions and instead demand that others be forced to pay out of pocket to make those consequences go away so they are not burdened the rest of their lives by the results of their own poor decisions, judgment, and incompetence/irresponsible behavior.
- Have as many 'elective surgeries' ('consequence-ectomies') as you want, but YOU pay for it. Liberals refuse to do so and demand others pay for their abortions.

 

[bravoactual]

What we have here is a fascist type smear job stuffed up their collective ass. Texas also became the 12th state to clear PP of doing anything criminal.

Anti-abortion group indicted for Planned Parenthood videos

No…what you have here are democrat prosecutors breaking the law….

This is a Republican investigation leading to the indictments.

The original investigation was in to the possible selling fetal tissue, which was what the heavily edited for content tapes were showing.

Abbott thought he had a huge story on black market fetal tissue and turns out the whole thing was put up.

All those Cons who believed the tapes were had.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Planned Parenthood was caught on tape offering to sell body parts, which is against the law. In a just world, PP would be charged with a crime.

Instead, in this modern world created by fascist liberals, those who have exposed the criminal conspiracy are treated like criminals.

Some day, liberals, you will have to eat the shit sandwich you are making of this country. When they haul you off to the concentration camps, don't say we didn't warn you.

 

[bravoactual]

When you got the right to be stupid.

Insults are not a substitute for facts and logic.

You obviously can't answer the question.

What other answer is there to such a moronic question given your question is built on the ignorance that you're paying for abortions?

Facts are "ignorance" only to liberals. If the government is giving money to PP, which performs abortions, then I'm paying for abortions. There's no two ways about it.

Imbecile.... it's not a "fact" until you prove it.

Until you do, it's a delusion, not a fact.

That's indisputable proof of your idiocy. Facts are facts, regardless of whether someone proves them or not.

And avoiding proving it under the pathetic guise that you don't have to because it's so obvious to you only further demonstrates your dementia.

So either prove your claims or you prove you're just another crazy conservative......

Total horseshit. I don't have to prove the sun comes up in the East. Everyone knows that already. Likewise I don't have to prove that PP uses government money to pay for abortions.

That would a yes you do.

The Federal Law is very specific on this. No Federal Funds can be used for abortions. You have made a heretofore unfounded accusation. You have no proof. All you have is conjecture, contention, hearsay and supposition. You have no proof.

So, it is up to to prove it, but you know you cannot.

 

[Dhara]

Abortion was not legal in 194, when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to scientists for growing polio vaccine in fetal kidney tissue. Leonard Hayflick created a cell line from an aborted fetus in the early 1960s that has been used to create vaccines against measles, rubella, shingles and other diseases. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told the journal Nature in 2013 that “[t]hese cells from one fetus have no doubt saved the lives of millions of people.”

Unspinning the Planned Parenthood Video

No doubt these anti-choice advocates don't care how many babies were saved from childhood diseases by research used to create vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, shingles, polio and other diseases.

 

[aaronleland]

Well, that worked out well for the activists. Wonder how many Republican lawmakers will actually come out and condemn them.

 

[Vandalshandle]

no they don't contribute millions to politicians, that's another fabrication...

Sorry, even the Liberal-leaning 'politifact' declares it a FACT that Planned Parenthood ensures millions go into the pockets of politicians. They get away with it by having 'separate entities that are affiliated with Planned Parenthood' affecting the 'contributions'.
- Anyone not completely ignorant to how politics works (PACs, etc - much the same way Hillary's 'corporation' un-officially 'feeds' her political ambitons / actions) understands exactly what that means and what is going on...

LINK: Planned Parenthood spends millions to elect Democrats to Congress, GOP U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy says

ahhh, so you are counting all pacs....and don't believe in free speech....? I see...

Alynski would be proud of you....

Planned Parenthood protection is BOUGHT.
When politicians have to be BOUGHT to protect something, corruption and wrong-doing abounds...no matter how hard you try to justify it.

OMG! Do you mean that the NRA is not a bipartisan organization! Say it isn't so, Joe!

 

[Rustic]

Finally--the question of whether these video's were true or cut and edited comes out. Planned Parenthood was investigated and found to be innocent of the charges of selling baby body parts. Those that fabricated these video's by cut and editing have been placed under

"These anti-abortion extremists spent three years creating a fake company, creating fake identities, lying, and breaking the law. When they couldn't find any improper or illegal activity, they made it up," Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement.

“As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it's become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we're glad they're being held accountable,” Ferrero said.

The videos, some of which were shot in Texas, riled anti-abortion activists and prompted Republicans in Congress last summer to unsuccessfully called for cutting off funding for the organization.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has called footage from the Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston "repulsive and unconscionable." It showed people pretending to be from a company that procures fetal tissue for research touring the facility. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also opened his own investigation into the videos.

“The State of Texas will continue to protect life, and I will continue to support legislation prohibiting the sale or transfer of fetal tissue,” he said in a statement.

Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., author of the House-passed "Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015," said the she was “profoundly disappointed” in the indictments.
Grand jury in Texas indicts activists behind Planned Parenthood videos | Fox News


What a way to kill an election.

They will go on butchering baby's for profit...
Very Orwellian

 

[Dhara]

In fact, the anti-choice are in favour of forced motherhood, and the opposite of that is forced abortion. I oppose both of these extremist positions.

 

[Dhara]

Every woman should be able to make the best decision for herself and her family about whether and when to have a child without undue political interference from others.

 

[Vandalshandle]

In situations like this, I like to just get to the bottom line, which is:

Losers:
Religious theocracy supporters
The Right, who would restrict our freedoms of control of our own bodies
The Republicans, who are continuing their war against women
Those that break laws

Winners:
Those that believe that the government should not have power over personal decisions about our bodies
Women
Democrats
justice

That pretty much sums it up.

 

[Dhara]

The Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution guarantees individuals the right to personal autonomy, which means that a person's decisions regarding his or her personal life are none of the government's business. That right, which is part of the right to privacy, encompasses decisions about parenthood, including a woman's right to decide for herself whether to complete or terminate a pregnancy, as well as the right to use contraception, freedom from forced sterilization and freedom from employment discrimination based on childbearing capacity.

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... shall exist within the United States." -- The Thirteenth Amendment

Forced motherhood is unconstitutional

Reproductive Freedom - The Right to Choose: A Fundamental Liberty

 

[Faun]

Some day, liberals, you will have to eat the shit sandwich you are making of this country. When they haul you off to the concentration camps, don't say we didn't warn you.

^^^ Tacit confession that righties are Nazis ^^^

 

[Dhara]

The reasons women give for having an abortion underscore their understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and family life. Three-fourths of women cite concern for or responsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.[6]
• Fifty-one percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method in the month they got pregnant, most commonly condoms (27%) or a hormonal method (17%).
Induced Abortion in the United States

 

[Dhara]

ABORTION FACTS AROUND THE WORLD:

1/3 of all pregnancies worldwide are unplanned
Approximately 25% of the world population lives in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws, mostly in Asia, Africa and Latin America
One woman dies every 7 minutes around the world due to an unsafe illegal abortion. Women who undergo illegal abortions are those who are very poor and do not have access to family planning facilities for education and prevention of unwanted pregnancies
Making abortion illegal or legal has no effect on the total number of abortions performed in the world. Making abortion legal dramatically reduces maternal morbidity and mortality.
Nearly 50% of pregnancies that occur yearly are unwanted with nearly ½ of those pregnant women terminating their pregnancy. In essence; 42 million choose to terminate their pregnancy with close to half of those (20 million) being illegal.

Between 10 and 50% of unsafe abortion cases need medical attention but a lot of women delay or decide not to seek medical care. This is because in a lot of countries where it is illegal to have abortions performed, the women who go to the hospital for help will be reported to the local law authorities and are subject to arrest and spending time in jail. The medical staff often refuses to help and will even harass women about their botched abortion. 600,000 maternal deaths occur each year. Seventy thousand (70,000) of those maternal deaths are from the complications of unsafe abortion which represents 12 to 13% percent of maternal deaths. Prior to 1966, Rumania allowed abortions to take place and as a result, maintained a very low maternal death rate. From 1966 to 1989 abortions were made illegal and the maternal mortality rate increased over 10 times compared to the remainder of Europe.

When performed by qualified Physicians and medical personnel appropriately trained about the medical and surgical abortion techniques, it is a relatively safe and necessary procedure. In the United States, for example, the death rate for abortion is currently 0.6 per 100 000 procedures, making it as safe or safer than receiving an injection of penicillin.
Abortion Statistics, Facts About Abortion In The US.

 

[JoeB131]

I and the vast majority couldn't care less what you take serious. Support baby killing and you're nothing but a coward. You can't change that.

I don't support or opposed abortion (which isn't baby killing, since fetuses aren't babies). I just realize that women are going to have them whether you like it or not. Now, if you want to reduce abortions, there are ways to do that.

Free Health Care.
Comprehensive, religion-free sex education
Family and medical leave.

It's why the Europeans have half the per capita number of abortions the US has.

But again, if you guys keep trying to cancel school lunches and food stamps for the little freeloaders, you can't go whining when they end up in medical waste containers.

 

[NYcarbineer]

What we have here is a fascist type smear job stuffed up their collective ass. Texas also became the 12th state to clear PP of doing anything criminal.

Anti-abortion group indicted for Planned Parenthood videos

No…what you have here are democrat prosecutors breaking the law….

This is a Republican investigation leading to the indictments.

yeah, but he's fact averse.

Yes another rightwing super hero whose superpower is his amazing ability to ignore facts.

 

[Dhara]

The reasons women provide for having an abortion underscores their understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and family life. Three-fourths of women cite concerns for or responsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner. Lack of money ranks very high. Many feel the responsible course of action is to wait until their situation is more suited to child rearing; 66% plan to have children when they are older and financially able to provide for a child and/or in a supportive relationship with a partner so their children can have two parents. Others wanted to get pregnant and developed serious medical problems, learned that the fetus had severe abnormalities, or experienced some other personal crisis. Each year, about 13,000 women have abortions because they became pregnant as a result of rape or incest.
Abortion Statistics, Facts About Abortion In The US.

 

[Faun]

You're lying. It is completely legal to sell embryonic tissue as long as it's done within the law, which permits such sales for nominal fees to cover the costs involved.

So are you saying that negotiating the sale of a fetus' body parts for the price of untraceable cash or a Lamborghini is legal, within the limits of the law, or are you saying what was shown on the video - which was a doctor negotiating for the sale of a fetus' body parts for cash and/or a Lamborghini was a figment of people's imagination?! Which is it? Maybe they KNEW they were being filmed and decided just to F* with the film maker, right?!

The Lamborghini nonsense is absurd as it was said in jest. This is obvious as it was investigated 12 times and no wrong-doing was found on PP's part.

As was PP's negotiations to cover their costs, which you should know, is legal.