Rep. Steve King accuses PP of engaging in child prostitution.
Here at the conservative CPAC conference, I spoke with Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) about the Planned Parenthood battle. King rivals Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), who has led the charge to deny federal funds to the organization, in his loathing for Planned Parenthood and his zealotry on the issue of abortion, among others. (At a hearing last Tuesday, King went into gory detail describing what he called "fetal dismemberment" when debating a tax-centric bill on federal funding for abortions.) He told me the group's practices are "ghoulish and ghastly and gruesome," and that Planned Parenthood engages in "child prostitution and illegal immigration."
But from the same article:
Planned Parenthood has admitted that one counselor made a mistake, but correctly asserts it handled the issue properly. King didn't agree. "I believe that the videos we saw of ACORN accurately reflected the activities of ACORN and the culture of ACORN, and the videos we have seen of Planned Parenthood accurately reflect the culture and the activities of Planned Parenthood." On the funding battle, King pledged a "smackdown vote to shut down every dollar going to Planned Parenthood."