Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s (PPFA) public persona now includes a report that the remains of babies aborted at some of its centers are dumped in landfills.
An investigation of three PPFA affiliates in Ohio showed that all of them send the remains of aborted children to companies that dispose of them at landfill sites, state Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Dec. 11, 2015. The fetal remains apparently are mixed at the landfills with “common residential and commercial trash,” DeWine said in a letter to the director of the state Department of Health.
PPFA performs more than 300,000 abortions a year, receives more than $500 million from the government annually and continues to be plagued by scandal.
Proof of disposal
The Ohio attorney general’s office investigated PPFA clinics in Cincinnati, Columbus and the Cleveland suburb of Bedford Heights to determine if they were selling baby parts in violation of state law.
His staff found no evidence the clinics were selling fetal tissue, but it uncovered proof of a disposal practice that violates a state rule mandating a “fetus shall be disposed of in a humane manner,” DeWine said. That rule calls for the state health director to seek to block the practice through a court injunction.
Barrett Duke, vice president for public policy of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), said, “Just when you thought you had heard it all, Planned Parenthood demonstrates again its callous disregard for the unborn. Unborn babies are as human as any other person. They deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect anyone else would be given, even in death.
“If the latest revelation is determined to be true, we have further evidence to support our call to end all taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood. The staff of ERLC is praying and working for the day when our nation recognizes the dignity of the unborn and protects them by law. Until then, we must all do everything we can within the limits of the law to hold accountable anyone who abuses the power of life and death over the unborn.”
Rejecting the report
PPFA officials in Ohio rejected the report from DeWine’s office, describing the allegations as “inflammatory and false.”
The Ohio affiliates filed a federal lawsuit Dec. 13 contending they handle fetal remains the way other abortion providers do and utilize companies that dispose of them “respectfully and safely.”
Stephanie Kight, president of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, said in a written statement, “Politicians in Ohio will stop at nothing to ban abortion in all cases in our state.”
She called the report a “plainly political attempt to restrict women’s access to safe and legal abortion.”
In recent years, fraudulent overbilling of the Medicaid program has been uncovered at some PPFA affiliates.
In addition, undercover video investigations have caught PPFA staff seeking to cover up alleged child sexual abuse and the apparent willingness of employees to aid sex traffickers whose prostitutes are in their early teens.
In another secret investigation, PPFA workers agreed to receive donations designated for abortions of African-American babies.
(BP)
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