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Posted at The Christian Institute : US abortion group Planned Parenthood has said it will stop taking money for body parts from aborted babies in what is being called a “stunt” and an “admission of guilt” by the pro-life group which exposed its practices. Plannned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, announced the change in policy in a letter to the National Institutes of Health. The move was met with skepticism by pro-life groups, who said that it does nothing to address the organisation’s “barbaric practice” of dismembering and harvesting the body parts of unborn children. Read more here...

By John-Henry Westen - Posted at The Federalist : A lot of gruesome human rights violations have surfaced in the wake of the investigative videos uncovering Planned Parenthood's body parts trafficking. Since July, a dozen videos have badly damaged Planned Parenthood’s carefully crafted image as a women’s health organization. It’s hard to argue you’re for women when your senior officials are callously laughing about how they lie to women about killing their children, then admit they use the organs of those deceased children to make extra bucks on the side. But with a fourth congressional hearing on Planned Parenthood’s fetal harvesting practices last Thursday, and more than a dozen states investigating the abortion giant, what exactly have we learned since July 14 ? Read more here...

By Tom Strode - Posted at Baptist Press: WASHINGTON (BP) -- Congressional testimony by Planned Parenthood's president failed to satisfy the concerns of lawmakers and pro-life advocates in the wake of undercover videos providing evidence the organization trades in baby body parts. Cecile Richards, head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), denounced charges -- apparently of unethical or illegal activity by her organization -- based on the videos as "offensive and categorically untrue" in a House of Representatives hearing Tuesday (Sept. 29). The hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee followed the release of 10 secretly recorded videos that show various Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of organs from aborted children. The videos recorded and released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) also display PPFA employees acknowledging their willingness to manipulate the abortion procedure to preserve body parts for sale

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards  (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) By Penny Starr - Posted at CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – At a hearing on Planned Parenthood funding in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday, Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) pointed out to Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards that the organization’s most recent tax report shows $127 million dollars of revenue in excess of expenses. Mulvaney asked Richards whether taking away just the $60 million in discretionary funding appropriated by Congress of the more than $450 million in federal funding that the Congressional Budget Office estimates Planned Parenthood gets each year. “One of the proposals here, Ms. Richards, is to defund Planned Parenthood, which includes taking roughly $60 million away from what you get out of discretionary funding,” Mulvaney said to Richards at a hearing of the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, where she was a witness. “If we took $60 million away fro

By Mollie Hemingway - Posted at The Federalist: The abortion provider says its web site was attacked. But was it really? Cecile Richards/ Planned Parenthood Whether or not the story generates major media attention, the Center for Medical Progress’ expose of Planned Parenthood’s participation in the harvesting and sale of fetal organs continues to feature major updates. Here are 10 of them. 1) Injunction On Release Of Potential Upcoming Video Late Wednesday, the Los Angeles Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order against the Center for Medical Progress, the pro-life group whose undercover journalism has produced three videos showing Planned Parenthood officials engaged in the practice of harvesting of organs from unborn children killed by abortions. Under the terms of the order, the non-profit organization is banned from releasing video of a May lunch attended by three StemExpress officials . The complaint alleges multiple infractions by the Center for Medical Progress, inc