Planned Parenthood Leader Says Fetal Tissue Claims Are False
- Richards says health-care group follows legal requirments
- Donation of fetal tissue for research is legal, Richards says
What Planned Parenthood's President Told Congress Today
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Planned Parenthood’s leader defended the group against accusations that it sells tissue from aborted fetuses for profit, telling U.S. lawmakers that claims based on undercover videos made by anti-abortion groups are “offensive and categorically untrue.”
“Planned Parenthood policies not only comply with, but indeed go beyond the requirements of the law,” Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday in Washington. Using fetal tissue in medical research is legal, she said.