Senate Judiciary Committee Refers Planned Parenthood For Criminal Charges
Hannah Bleau (Red Dawn)
December 14, 2016 11:00am
In a letter sent to the FBI and the Department of Justice Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee recommended Planned Parenthood– four of its largest affiliates, to be exact– for criminal charges. Surely you remember the whole “trafficking baby parts for profit” thing. The Center for Medical Progress videos? Who could forget? All that talk of Lamborghinis and laughing about chopped up babies over lunch? (I’m still convinced those people have no soul.)
“I don’t take lightly making a criminal referral,” committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said in a press release. “But, the seeming disregard for the law by these entities has been fueled by decades of utter failure by the Justice Department to enforce it. And, unless there is a renewed commitment by everyone involved against criminalizing the trade in aborted fetal body parts for profit, then the outcome is likely to continue.”
Will the Obama administration follow through with the recommendation? I’m going to go with no. But again. His time’s almost up, which makes this referral even more relevant. It will essentially “provide the Trump administration with a foundation to levy criminal charges against Planned Parenthood.”
And before the left whines about how the videos were “deceptively edited” (which, they weren’t), you should know that the committee didn’t even base the recommendation on the videos.
“While the impetus for the investigation was the release of a series of videos regarding transfers of fetal tissue by the Center for Medical Progress, the committee’s analysis and findings are based strictly on the documents obtained independently from tissue procurement companies and Planned Parenthood,” the press release states.
According to the report, the cost analyses provided by Planned Parenthood “lack sufficient documentation and rely on unreasonably broad and vague claims of costs for the ‘transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control or storage of’ fetal tissue.”
Even though the Obama administration will completely dismiss this, I’m glad lawmakers didn’t immediately toss it to the wayside. It is a big deal.
h/t The Washington Times |
