Fetal Tissue Donation
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Planned Parenthood to No Longer Accept Reimbursement for Fetal Tissue Donation
Cecile Richards announced on Tuesday that Planned Parenthood would no longer accept reimbursement for expenses incurred from fetal tissue donation. The move comes in response to calls by conservative lawmakers to withdraw the organization’s funding, spurred by a series of videos released by anti-abortion activists over the summer. (If you need to catch up on the controversy, here’s everything you need to know in one place.) The letter makes it clear that, while the organization’s policies on
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Catching Up on the Planned Parenthood Controversy: Everything You Need to Know
Why has Planned Parenthood been in the news so much lately? The 99-year-old sexual and reproductive health care provider has made headlines after an antiabortion activist group accused it this summer of illegally profiting from fetal tissue donation programs — claims still unsubstantiated, but that almost resulted in a government shutdown last week. Need to get up to speed on why everyone’s talking about Planned Parenthood? On July 14, the Center for Medical Progress released the “sting” vide
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Fact-Checking Carly Fiorina’s Debate Statements on Planned Parenthood
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina made her primetime debut last night at the second Republican presidential debate, held at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Fiorina was promoted from what is widely known as the “JV” or “kiddie table” debate, held prior to the main event for candidates lagging dramatically in the polls. Many pundits declared newcomer and Washington outsider Fiorina the hands-down winner of last night’s debate — sorry, Donald.
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Anti-Vax, Meet Anti-Abortion: Woman Uses Fetal Tissue Link to Skirt Vaccine Law in NYC
The recent media spotlight on fetal tissue donation has exposed a new inroad to petitioning for school vaccine exemptions: One’s pro-life beliefs. A New York City woman recently won her petition to receive an exemption for having her child receive the measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine required for enrollment in New York City schools, claiming that her religious beliefs — and anti-abortion stance — prevented her from being able to allow for her child to receive the vaccine. The MMR vaccine i
