Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and Chairman Carly Fiorina
can't compete on this score, never having ever held political office.
So at this week's GOP debate she raised the ante, making the most
extreme statement about Planned Parenthood of anyone in the field.
"As regards Planned Parenthood," she said, "anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton,
Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the
table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to
keep it alive to harvest its brain."
I dare Carly Fiorina to crawl under a rock where she belongs. I dare Carly Fiorina to stop lying about Planned Parenthood.
A grand jury has indicted two
anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos alleging Planned
Parenthood illegally sold fetal tissue to researchers for a profit, and
said the abortion provider committed no wrong.
The grand jury in
Houston, which investigated Planned Parenthood after the Center for
Medical Progress released its undercover footage last year, indicted the
center's founder and another activist on Monday — the first criminal
charges against anyone in the anti-abortion group since the videos
surfaced last year.
The videos provoked outrage among Republican
leaders nationwide and prompted investigations by Republican-led
committees in Congress and by GOP-led state governments. Planned
Parenthood officials have denied any wrongdoing and say the videos are
misleading.
Center for Medical Progress CEO David Daleiden and
activist Sandra Merritt each face a felony charge of tampering with a
governmental record, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in
prison. Daleiden also faces a misdemeanor count related to purchasing
human organs.
Planned Parenthood has said a few clinics in two states used to
accept legally allowed reimbursement for the costs of providing tissue
donated by some of its abortion clients. In October, Planned Parenthood
announced that it would no longer accept reimbursement and would cover
the costs itself.
The group called Monday's indictments the latest
in a string of victories since the videos were released, saying 11
state investigations have cleared the nation's largest abortion provider
of claims that it profited from fetal tissue donation.
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