Planned Parenthood Ends Fetal-Tissue Reimbursement

Planned Parenthood will no longer take reimbursements for the costs incurred when procuring fetal tissue, in an attempt to counter pressure from congressional Republicans who have used the payments as reason for setting up investigation panels and lobbying to defund the organization. President Cecile Richards wrote in a Tuesday letter to the National Institutes of Health that the “real goal of these extremists has nothing to do with our fetal-tissue donation compliance process but is instead to ban abortion in the U.S. and block women from getting any health care from Planned Parenthood. Today, we’re taking their smokescreen away.”