Thune, 49 Fellow Senators Raise Concerns With Planned Parenthood Practices

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Thune, 49 Fellow Senators Raise Concerns With Planned Parenthood PracticesSenators Urge HHS Secretary to Comply with Investigations, Conduct Assessment to Facilitate Congressional Review

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined a bipartisan group of 49 fellow senators in sending a letter, led by U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell following the release of footage by the Center for Medical Progress depicting senior Planned Parenthood Federation of America executives discussing in gruesome detail the organization’s role in the harvesting of the organs of unborn babies. In the letter, the senators draw attention to the legal, ethical, and policy issues raised by the footage and call on HHS Secretary Burwell to cooperate with ongoing and future investigations into these questions.

“The footage raises a number of questions about the practices of the organization, including whether they are in compliance with federal laws regulating both the use of fetal tissue and partial-birth abortions,” the senators wrote. “In addition to questions about Planned Parenthood’s compliance with applicable federal law and medical ethics, we believe the footage prompts important policy questions surrounding the issue of abortions permitted so late in a pregnancy – sometimes even later than 5 months – that an unborn baby’s organs can be identified and harvested.” 

The senators also requested that the secretary confirm the commencement or immediate initiation of “a thorough internal review of the compliance of the Department and Planned Parenthood – one of the Department’s grantees – with all relevant and applicable federal statutes, regulations, and other requirements.”

Full text of the senators’ letter can be found here.

 The complete list of senators who signed the letter include U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah.), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio.), James Risch (R-Idaho), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), John Thune (R-S.D.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), David Vitter (R-La.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).

  

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19 thoughts on “Thune, 49 Fellow Senators Raise Concerns With Planned Parenthood Practices”

  1. Bob Mercer apparently swallowed today’s New York Times editorial hook, line and sinker. Mercer seems incapable of considering the possibility that the “campaign of deception” and the “ambush of deliberate distortion” are being conducted by Planned Parenthood and the Times.

    Thumbs up to Joni Ernst, and thumbs down to baby-killer Bob.

  2. Well, people that think nothing of ripping an unborn child from it’s mother’s womb in the first place can’t be expected to have any qualms about trying to get around the law. It’s astounding how most liberals are so adamant in their defense of the precious right to choose.

    1. What astounds me is the way they completely ignore the child’s right to choose.

  3. Hat tip to Greg Belfrage for this metaphorical evisceration of literal evisceration.

    Brit Hume on Abortion:

  5. Ya, that’s really a bipartisan bunch ! One Dem out of 49 ! Amazing how those Dems in DC don’t want to offend Obummer and their liberal lapdogs !

    2. it is called politics. Rarely is it about representation or what is right. It is mostly about power and money.

    3. And you don’t realize that I could say the same thing about the 49? Rational repugs? have to be furious that this issue appeared, they don’t want to talk about abortion, another losing issue for them.

    1. Yes Mr. Anonymous to the nth degree

      they are evil when they cave to Obama and his minions.

  8. 49 Republican signatures? Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. REPEAL OBAMACARE!! Fast and Furious – NO GAYS IN THE MILITARY – Deny Women Their Right to Choose ….. and on and on You Conservatives can’t finish things very well, can you? Here’s the facts about WOMEN’S CHOICE for the high value voters out there. (voters who’ve not made up their mind, yet)
    Q: How much of Planned Parenthood’s services are dedicated to abortions? Does the federal government fund those procedures?
    A: Abortions represent 3 percent of total services provided by Planned Parenthood, and roughly 10 percent of its clients received an abortion. The group does receive federal funding, but the money cannot be used for abortions by law.
    http://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/planned-parenthood/

    1. Did you know that Obama’s birth certificate is a fake? No …. really it is. AND, any bullets purchased after 2014 have gunpowder that can be neutralized by remote control.

  9. See, the Congress appropriates funds for Planned Parenthood, and then PP launders the money and gives it to the members of Congress who voted to give them the money. It’s a great system, using taxpayer money to finance re-election campaigns, and it’s going to be difficult to find enough people to oppose it.

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