Courtesy of Townhall:
Under fire for its role in providing fetal tissue for research, Planned Parenthood asked the government's top health scientists Wednesday to convene a panel of independent experts to study the issues surrounding the little-known branch of medicine.
Planned Parenthood's request to the National Institutes of Health came as Senate Republicans pressed their fight to bar the organization from receiving federal aid. Likely opposition from at least one GOP senator highlighted the long odds the GOP will face in a Senate showdown vote expected early next week.
Planned Parenthood, which gets more than $500 million of its $1.3 billion annual budget from federal and state programs, has been under fire since the release of videos showing some of its officials discussing how they obtain organs from aborted fetuses for research. The videos were furtively recorded by an anti-abortion group.
"The inflammatory and misleading videos have pushed this issue into the national spotlight," said the letter from Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. "And a thoughtful, careful review by leading medical and ethical experts could do a lot to help the public and policymakers think through this issue and reach informed conclusions."
You know it would seem that if you were actually doing something illegal of immoral that you REALLY would not want the Feds looking into it.
So the fact that Planned Parenthood is requesting this should send a message to those making these outlandish accusations. But it won't of course because ideology is stronger than facts.
By the way if you want to visit the Planned Parenthood website today, don't bother because it has been hacked.
Planned Parenthood asks for a study of fetal tissue research by the federal government. You know, because they have so much to hide.
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