Did Planned Parenthood break any laws in facilitating fetal tissue donation from abortions? The answer is clearly "no," and
now five states have proven it: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts and South Dakota.
Pennsylvania has found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood in the state after a review, according to a letter from the state health department.
That decision makes it the fifth state to announce that they have found no wrongdoing by the organization in the wake of controversial undercover videos showing officials discussing the price of fetal tissue for medical research. Planned Parenthood says the officials are discussing compensation for expenses, which is legal, and not profit.
The organization also says it only has fetal tissue donation programs in two states, California and Washington.
Since none of these states are actually places where the program is in place, this was pretty much a foregone conclusion, wasn't it. So, are these states going to bill the anti-abortion group that released the bogus videos for wasting their time and taxpayer dollars with stupid investigations?
At any rate, they're possibly going to have to answer to Planned Parenthood. The organization is considering whether to sue the Center for Medical Progress, the anti-choice extremists pretending to be a medical group behind the videos. "I absolutely do believe that they have violated laws in terms of how they secured these videos," Planned Parenthood Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens told The Hill. "But the fraud is also in how they have presented them and in the editing." California is investigating the organization and whether it violated state laws in obtaining the footage.