They’re going to stop taking money for direct baby harvesting. …Wow. Isn’t that just swell of them?
Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday that it will no longer accept any reimbursement as part of its fetal tissue donation program, taking its strongest step yet to end the onslaught of conservative attacks against the group.
The group’s president Cecile Richards disclosed the policy change in a letter to the National Institutes of Health, which she said was intended to “take away any basis for attacking Planned Parenthood to advance an anti-abortion political agenda.”
The Hill goes on to fondly imagine that this ‘forces Republicans to find new lines of attack against Planned Parenthood,’ apparently in the mistaken belief that you can retroactively and unilaterally declare federal felonies to no longer be federal felonies. Also: I suppose that winning a major battle on life issues – to wit, making it much less profitable for Planned Parenthood to continue to harvest human babies – might ‘force’ us to go onto other things, in much the same way that decapitating the Soviet Union ‘forced’ the United States to go do something else besides fight the Cold War.
As for the shadow-boxing part: well, as streiff pointed out over at RedState, this letter doesn’t actually say what it claims to say. As in: many, many opportunities still exist for Planned Parenthood to make a profit selling baby parts to various companies. streiff thinks that said letter was sent out in response to a judge squashing a temporary restraining order against the Center for Medical Progress so that they can show a particular video to Congress*. Which sounds about right; at least, I think that somebody at Planned Parenthood may be starting to get a little worried about jail time, and that’s certainly compatible with streiff’s theory. Guess we’ll see!
Moe Lane
*”Wonderful thing, a subpoena.”
There’s an auction house I attend now and again that sells tags. Said tags bring good money because they are attached to various guns that come free with the purchase of the tag (the auctioneer claims to have no knowledge of what may of may not be attached to these tags). The point there is that there are many many ways to give a little wink and make money from something without directly selling it. I would be more impressed if they stopped all donations to any fetal tissue programs. If they’re not making money from it, as they claim, then why continue to do it at all?
Moe, I don’t want my butt in Wilford Brimley’s briefcase! I like my butt!
“Now we’ll talk all day if you want to. But, come sundown, there’s gonna be two things true that ain’t true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is goin’ to know what in the good Christ – e’scuse me, Angie – is goin’ on around here. And the other’s I’m gonna have somebody’s ass in muh briefcase.”
Classic scene.
Wonderful thing, a subpeenee…
Clicked submit too soon. I think that’s probably one of my favorite movies. I wonder how the blu-ray transfer is? So many of the movies that age they just sorta ran the conversion software and left them alone, which ends up pretty terrible.
…. so, I guess we know when Planned Parenthood stopped beating its’ wife ….
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Mew