House Launches Full-Time Committee to Investigate Planned Parenthood Selling Aborted Baby Parts

The House of Representatives has held four hearings into the Planed Parenthood abortion business and the scandal surrounding its sales of aborted babies and their body parts. Because the abortion company receives almost half a billion in taxpayer funds, House Republicans want to investigate Planned Parenthood much more intensely than the hearings allow.

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To that end, the House today approved a a Select Panel on abortion and the sale of aborted baby body parts that will spend a year thoroughly investigating the Planned Parenthood abortion business amid the brewing scandal of it selling aborted babies and appearing to break multiple federal laws in so doing. The Select Panel is being formed in response to the information revealed by the videos released by Center for Medical Progress and it will consist of eight Republicans and five Democrats. The work of this panel will be in addition to the ongoing investigations at the Judiciary Committee and Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “Our investigation has raised many more questions than we’ve been able to find answers,” said pro-life Rep. Marsha Blackburn,. a Tennessee Republican expected to lead the panel. “We need to have a national conversation about these practices. This is a discussion we cannot shy away from.” More...

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