The new report is from the Democrats on the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce.
It alleges there is no evidence of anything improper in Planned Parenthood’s practice of getting paid for body parts by outside organizations that then resell the parts to researchers, sometimes for hundreds of dollars each.
The controversy was prompted by a sting conducted by the Center for Medical Progress in which investigators posing as representatives of a fake biomedical organization obtained candid comments on camera.
Although the document describes the issue as “alleged sale,” it confirms that various contracts obtained by Planned Parenthood paid the organization $45, $55 or $60 per specimen.
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