Planned Parenthood Aborts Money for Fetal Tissue Policy

After months of scrutiny and calls from GOP lawmakers to defund Planned Parenthood, the women’s health organization has decided to make a change of policy.

The Christian Science Monitor reports:

After contentious videos were released suggesting Planned Parenthood officials received profits for fetal tissue, the organization announced Tuesday it will no longer accept reimbursements of any kind.

Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, testified before Congress in September that the videos were deceptively edited and the organization has never sought reimbursement from researchers for post-abortion fetal tissue outside of what is legally permissible.

But a new policy, outlined in a letter Tuesday from Ms. Richards to Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, says the controversy has led the organization to cover the costs of the program itself and reject even legal reimbursement.

The move is unlikely to satisfy Planned Parenthood’s opponents, who are already calling the move “an admission of guilt.”