BY JOELLE GRANDE
In a surprising twist, the US Department of Justice will engage in a glaring waste of taxpayer dollars by opening an investigation into Planned Parenthood that was “case closed” a year ago.In 2015, an organization calling itself the Center for Medical Progress released a series of videos purporting to prove that the women’s health organization was illegally selling fetal body parts.
That claim was roundly
debunked after multiple states launched investigations into
Planned Parenthood.
None of them – Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Washington –
found any evidence supporting the claim.
Instead, a grand jury in Harris County, Texas voted to indict
the Center for Medical Progress instead of Planned Parenthood– that’s how
egregious the claims were.
Now, the Trump Justice Department has just sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee requesting documents connected to its 2016 investigation of the incident.
Planned Parenthood
responded then to the report, saying that it found no wrongdoing on the part of
the organization.
Dana Singiser, the organization’s vice president of government
relations responded to the report at the time, saying:
“Planned Parenthood’s standards have always gone above and beyond what the law required. As investigation after investigation has shown, Planned Parenthood has done nothing wrong. Senator Grassley’s report attempts to paint a nefarious picture of the simple re-formatting of a document—showing once again that there is no actual wrongdoing to point to.”
The fact that the Justice
Department is reopening this clearly closed case is being heralded as a big win
for the pro-life masses on the Religious Right. Major red flag.
With Jeff Sessions heading up the Justice Department, the
religious extremists seem to have an ally willing to stomp all over everyone
else’s First Amendment rights in favor of their own Christian agenda.
JOELLE
GRANDE IS A WRITER WITH A BACKGROUND IN
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND JOURNALISM FROM RUTGERS. SHE HAS WRITTEN FOR THE WEB,
PRINT, AND SCREEN. GRANDE COMPETED IN PRO-AM ARCHERY THROUGH COLLEGE. SHE
CURRENTLY LIVES IN LOS ANGELES.
