Lankford In USA Today: Defund Organ Harvesting
Sen. Lankford: Defund organ harvesting
It’s past time to redirect Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding to community health centers.
By U.S. Sen. James Lankford, USA Today
If you haven’t seen the videos about Planned Parenthood’s operation to harvest human body parts from abortions, I suggest you view them. It might change your mind about whether taxpayers should help fund Planned Parenthood.
While our nation is divided on abortion, we shouldn’t force the taxes of Americans who strongly oppose organ harvesting or abortion to continue to fund an organization that carries out these inhumane practices. About 40% of Planned Parenthood’s funding comes from hardworking taxpayers, which leaves its other resources available to perform these barbaric procedures.
The videos bring up legal questions of whether Planned Parenthood complies with federal laws regulating the use of fetal tissue, alteration of procedures used to terminate pregnancies, the purpose of obtaining tissue and partial-birth abortion procedures. At the very least, federal funding should cease while an investigation occurs.
Many Americans believe these unborn lives are fully human. When Planned Parenthood sells unique human organs to research labs, by definition, they had to be unique human lives when they were aborted. These organs cannot be “just tissue” in the womb, but later sold as the liver, heart or brain of humans.