Duncey
GOP Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is putting the state's tax dollars to work—ordering a ban on fetal tissue sales following the Planned Parenthood sting
video that surfaced last week.
"I am calling on the Department of Health Services to conduct a thorough review of the law and immediately promulgate emergency rules designed to prohibit the illegal sale of any tissue from an unborn child,” Ducey said in a statement last week.
So let's get this straight—you're banning something that is already prohibited by federal statute and that Planned Parenthood has clearly stated it didn't do? Tierney Sneed reports:
Ducey's ban came in response to an anti-abortion video that surfaced last week that purported to show a Planned Parenthood official discussing how abortion clinics profited from providing fetal tissue from abortions to scientific researchers. Planned Parenthood, while acknowledging its affiliates do participate in tissue donation programs, has denied the allegations that fetal tissue is being sold for profit, which is already against the law. Planned Parenthood contends that clinics only charge what is required to offset the cost of providing tissue to researchers.
Good to see another Republican making such fine use of government dollars.