Pro-Life Leaders Want Trump Justice Dept. to Prosecute Planned Parenthood

The Senate Judiciary Committee released a report that could serve as a template for prospective Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the group over abortion.

By Betsy Woodruff

Sen. Chuck Grassley wants the Department of Justice to investigate Planned Parenthood—and under the Trump administration, there’s a realistic chance that will happen.

Led by Grassley, the chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, panel Republicans released a report Tuesday urging the Justice Department to investigate allegations that several medical research companies and Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally sold tissue from aborted fetuses. Planned Parenthood says there is no merit to those allegations and that they’re part of a political effort to damage the group. A dozen states have investigated Planned Parenthood affiliates, and none found evidence of the illegal sale of fetal tissue.

The politics of the issue couldn’t be more divisive: During the presidential race, Hillary Clinton campaigned alongside Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards, while Donald Trump promised to appoint pro-life Supreme Court justices and ban abortions after 20 weeks. And the release of controversial hidden-camera footage from the Center for Medical Progress highlighted the practice of using fetal tissue for medical research—galvanizing pro-life activists in their opposition to Planned Parenthood.

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Source: The Daily Beast