JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PLANNED PARENTHOOD: “The Justice Department is looking into Planned Parenthood’s practices related to human fetal tissue, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
The letter — from the Justice Department’s head of its Office of Legislative Affairs — does not mention Planned Parenthood by name but asks the Senate Judiciary Committee to turn over unredacted documentation supporting a December 2016 report titled ‘Human Fetal Tissue Research,’ which purports to describe the organization’s practices…
The use of human fetal tissue — which is used to study a number of diseases — has proved to be a political flashpoint for decades.
Federal law prohibits the receipt of any ‘valuable consideration’ for fetal tissue, while permitting ‘reasonable payments’ for costs, including ‘transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control or storage of human fetal tissue.’
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley’s 2016 report claimed that executive branch agencies had failed to monitor the industry and — after reviewing 20,000 documents voluntarily submitted by Planned Parenthood and a number of other organizations — called on the Justice Department to investigate…
The Justice Department declined to comment.”
-Laura Jarrett, “Justice Dept. investigating use of fetal tissue,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Dec. 8, 2017 04:26am