Legislative Background on Planned Parenthood
Recent Action by Congress on the Defunding Drive
The ever-contentious issues of abortion, the use of fetal tissue for research, and funding for Planned Parenthood returned to the fore in July 2015 when the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress began releasing secretly taped videos showing Planned Parenthood representatives discussing fetal tissue donations. Abortion opponents charge that the videos show that Planned Parenthood not only profited from the sale of aborted fetal tissue, but changed their procedures in order to obtain intact specimens. Planned Parenthood maintains that it has acted within Federal law and that the videos were improperly edited. ■ Senate Vote In Congress, the release of the…
