The March for Life joined with 15
other pro-life and conservative organizations last week in a letter urging Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe to take up an investigation
into paid fetal tissue transfers involving Planned Parenthood (PP).
The letter cites the work of David
Daleiden and his Center for Medical Progress (CMP) that released undercover videos
of “meetings with abortion providers and companies involved in the transfer of
fetal tissue,” which “detailed the relationship between fetal tissue procurement
companies, including Advanced Bioscience Resources, DaVinci Biologics, and StemExpress,
as well as several abortion clinics.”
In response to the videos, the House
of Representatives created the Select Panel on Infant Lives in October 2015
which “found evidence of violations of laws protecting human research subjects and
patient privacy; laws regulating anatomical gifts for transplantation, therapy,
research, and education; laws protecting late-term and born-alive infants; and laws
pertaining to public funding for fetal tissue research and abortion providers.”
The panel ended up making “15 criminal
and regulatory referrals of tissue procurement companies and abortion clinics,
including Planned Parenthood affiliates, and investigations are underway around
the nation. The Senate Judiciary
Committee has made 7-criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.”
The letter notes that based on the
evidence uncovered by the undercover videos and the panel “it appears that
Planned Parenthood Federation of America learned that its affiliates were
engaging in paid fetal tissue programs” in violation of federal law. They add “the facts uncovered raise a
reasonable suspicion that these organizations, and/or individuals employed by them,
may have engaged in a conspiracy to violate the fetal tissue law.”
“The previous Administration decided
to turn a blind eye to the wrongdoing,” the groups conclude, “which led to the
creation of the Select Panel. We request
that the Justice Department continue the investigation into the practices
surrounding this scandal.”
The letter comes as the CMP released a
video last week showing PP doctors exchanging stories about “heads that get
stuck that we can’t get out” and when “an eyeball just fell into my lap, and
that is gross.” The video was later
removed from YouTube by Judge William Orrick, who had issued an injunction
delaying the release of footage. The
California attorney general has filed 15-criminal charges against the CMP.
This is classic good guys (CMP) being viewed
as the bad guys while the truly bad guys (PP) is perceived as the good guys.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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