Through July 2015 five sting video were released by The Center for Medical Progress, an anti - abortion group, that showed Planned Parenthood executives and workers discussing how the organization provides fetal organs and tissues to researchers. The Center for Medical Progress had actors pose as representatives of a company charged with procuring fetal tissue for researchers. They secretly recorded trips to two clinics located in Texas and Colorado, and lunches with executives of Planned Parenthood. These videos have led to a government investigation of Planned Parenthood with the senate voting whether or not to continue funding Planned Parenthood. the major issue that these videos have risen is what Planned Parenthood is doing legal. These
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This is the reason for all the media attention and government investigation circulating Planned Parenthood. All wield allegations of Planned Parenthood profiteering from the sale of fetal tissue is scorched to ashes when the videos are transcribed. Every time the Planned Parenthood officials communicated anything to do with the exchange of money for fetal tissue they have specified that the money was for the preservation of the tissue before delivery and the delivering of the tissue. Which seems logical since in one of the videos Mary Gatter, the medical director of Planned Parenthood, states that she would sell the the tissues for around $50. A $50 charge for the “shipping and handling” is fairly appropriate since a one day shipping for amazon is about $20 and that isn’t that the tissue must be kept at a certain temperature, is fragile, and most likely must be delivered within a minuscule time frame. Imagine how much Amazon would charge if you needed a 3 hour delivery. Amazon would most definitely charge a person anywhere from $100 to $500 just for the shipping. This wouldn’t consist of special handling like fragile or keep at a constant 4 degrees Celsius. At $50 per specimen, Planned Parenthood may in fact be losing money with every transaction. With that the allegation that Planned Parenthood is profiting off of the fetal tissue is
This is the reason for all the media attention and government investigation circulating Planned Parenthood. All wield allegations of Planned Parenthood profiteering from the sale of fetal tissue is scorched to ashes when the videos are transcribed. Every time the Planned Parenthood officials communicated anything to do with the exchange of money for fetal tissue they have specified that the money was for the preservation of the tissue before delivery and the delivering of the tissue. Which seems logical since in one of the videos Mary Gatter, the medical director of Planned Parenthood, states that she would sell the the tissues for around $50. A $50 charge for the “shipping and handling” is fairly appropriate since a one day shipping for amazon is about $20 and that isn’t that the tissue must be kept at a certain temperature, is fragile, and most likely must be delivered within a minuscule time frame. Imagine how much Amazon would charge if you needed a 3 hour delivery. Amazon would most definitely charge a person anywhere from $100 to $500 just for the shipping. This wouldn’t consist of special handling like fragile or keep at a constant 4 degrees Celsius. At $50 per specimen, Planned Parenthood may in fact be losing money with every transaction. With that the allegation that Planned Parenthood is profiting off of the fetal tissue is