Another undercover video was released by the Center for Medical Progress Tuesday, showing Melissa Farrell, research director with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, in Houston.
“We’re going to potentially be able to have some that will be more or less intact, and some that will not be,” Farrell says in the tape, referring to fetal tissue removed during an abortion.
Governor Bobby Jindal spoke with Fox News about “This woman, talking in barbaric, just brutal terms about these unborn children and their organs. I’m hopeful that folks will wake up and say, ‘Enough’s enough’.”
This is the fifth heavily-edited video released by CMP, a non-profit with strong financial and philosophical ties to Operation Rescue. It comes one day after Governor Jindal ordered the state Department of Health and Hospitals to cancel Louisiana’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood.
Despite an on-going set of state investigations into Planned Parenthood, no similar state effort have been made to investigate the videos, or the Center for Medical Progress. But then, as Jindal put it: “I’m hoping that these new videos will shock the conscience – even those that are not yet pro-life.”
Planned Parenthood does not currently offer abortion services in Louisiana. They do provide birth control, cancer screening, testing and treatment for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, all of which were covered under the Medicaid contract.
“We know the real agenda of organizations behind videos like this, and they have never been concerned with protecting the health and safety of women,” said Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood’s national president. “Their mission is to ban abortion completely, and to cut women off from care at Planned Parenthood and other health care centers.”
In recent years, several states have tried to cut off Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood. Arizona, Indiana, North Carolina and Tennessee all lost in court.
And while Louisiana Planned Parenthood -- which is a subdivision of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast -- has not yet indicated if they will challenge state’s rescinding of the Medicaid contract, they have 30 days to do so.