Abbott announced anti-abortion intiative, targets Planned Parenthood

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Austin American-Statesman

Gov. Greg Abbott announced an anti-abortion initiative Friday in response to last month’s undercover videos which showed Planned Parenthood representatives discussing the legal practice of harvesting tissue from aborted fetuses. The announcement signals a continued effort to restrict abortions in Texas.

Abbott’s initiative, dubbed LIFE, spells out a broad legislative effort to further penalize doctors who violate laws governing the procedure in Texas, one of the most restrictive states. It also signals the governor’s goal to wrest state and federal funding of Planned Parenthood completely, even though by law public money cannot pay for abortions.

The governor’s announcement is the latest reaction to videos released last month by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, which showed a Planned Parenthood doctor in California discussing how some clinics harvest and donate tissue from aborted fetuses — a legal practice so long as tissues aren’t sold for profit.

“Gruesome – and potentially illegal – harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood cannot be allowed in Texas,” Abbott said in a statement “Treating unborn children as commodities to be sold is an abomination. The barbaric practice of harvesting and selling baby body parts must end.”

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/abbott-announced-anti-abortion-intiative-targets-p/nnSsf/

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Cross-posted in the Texas Group.

[sakabatou]

1. Ugh...

[Vinca]

2. Planned Parenthood should sue his ass for defamation.

[Fred Sanders]

6. With criminal prosecutions for all the merchants of smear to follow, if justice be done.

[cynzke]

9. SPEAKING OF DEFAMATION!

Look what Operation Rescue tried to pull in Texas.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/12/20/texas-abortion-provider-now-twice-cleared-of-wrongdoing-after-operation-rescue-attacks/

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Another female hating creep. FU Abbott!

[sarge43]

4. Is Abbott against organ donation in general?

Does he considering that harvesting? Safe bet if he or a member of his family needed a kidney or liver, he wouldn't hesitate.

Yes, these are rhetorical questions because another safe bet he could give an obese rodent hindquarters about embryos or fetuses. He's just part of the lynch mob out for women's rights.

[ananda]

5. I wonder how many ...

... women are going to have to die, and how many children
are going to go hungry before there's an uprising like the
one we need NOW !!!

[riversedge]

10. 1+

[area51]

7. By all means, Abbott, be against abortion,

but as you're disabled, don't even think about reaping any benefits from medical breakthroughs that will come from fetal tissue experiments.

[cynzke]

8. ITS TOTAL BS.

First, Texas requires Planned Parenthood to run separate clinics for abortions and other services in order to keep the federal funding from the abortion clinic. And Planned Parenthood stopped taking tissue donations in 2010. ABBOTT IS MISLEADING!