Planned Parenthood Alleges 'Smear' In Letter To Congress
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Planned Parenthood Federation of America defended itself in a letter to Congress and sent a report showing undercover videos of officials discussing fetal tissue for research were heavily altered by anti-abortion activists.
A Planned Parenthood executive said Thursday that experts found the videos were distorted to misrepresent conversations employees had with an anti-abortion activist posing as a biomedical company employee.
Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens says her organization broke no laws and that the videos are part of an agenda to ban abortion.
Undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress have fueled a conservative backlash against Planned Parenthood but so far have produced no evidence anyone is illegally profiting from fetal tissue.
Laguens says clinics in only two states provide the tissue for medical research.
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