Planned Parenthood officials are on the spotlight once again as they release a new policy that they will not be accepting compensation for their fetal tissue program. The said policy is believed to take away all accusations of anti- abortion activists of Planned Parenthood's alleged profiteering from the fetal tissue program.
According to sfgate.com, the issue started last summer when Southern California group, the Center for Medical Progress, has released a video allegedly showing the Planned Parenthood officials trying to sell fetal tissues from aborted fetus to the medical researchers. Despite of the latter's denial of these accusations, the issue caused a series of hearings that calls for the withdrawal of federal funding from Planned Parenthood.
The officials of Planned Parenthood that they are illegally profiteering the fetal issues, instead they were only trying to "recoup the costs of procuring, storing and transporting the tissue as allowed by law." To silence all the controversies, Planned Parenthood decided to refuse any compensation or reimbursement for their two clinics located in California and Washington, which the only clinics that are having the fetal tissue program on- going.
Kathy Kneer, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said "The new, national policy governing this work removes, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the ludicrous idea that Planned Parenthood has any financial interest in fetal tissue donation - and shows the real agenda behind these attacks."
According to nytimes.com, Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of the group, said "This is Planned Parenthood standing strong, saying that we are not going to be bullied, even by five congressional committees, into walking away from important research and women's desire to donate. We are not going to stand around getting flogged with false accusation for something that's never been our motivation to participate in tissue donation."
Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, is one of the representatives who led the efforts of investigating the alleged anomaly in Planned Parenthood. Investigation report shows that "overall, in the fiscal year ended in June, the group received about $528 million from federal, state and local sources, about three-quarters of which came from Medicaid, to pay for birth control services and other women's health care."
Mr. Chaffetz also remarked that "This is a good, tangible result of the collective efforts of the House in investigating Planned Parenthood."
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