2016 Presidential Hopeful Hillary Clinton Calls Planned Parenthood Videos 'Disturbing'
Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has described the recently-released Planned Parenthood videos showing executives discussing the costs associated with fetal body parts as "disturbing."
Clinton said in an interview with the New Hampshire Union this week that although she finds the videos "disturbing," she believes the whole system of fetal tissue donation should be looked at, including Planned Parenthood's role in the process.
"I have seen pictures from them and I obviously find them disturbing," Clinton said in an interview with the newspaper on Tuesday.
"Planned Parenthood is answering questions and will continue to answer questions. I think there are two points to make. One, Planned Parenthood for more than a century has done a lot of really good work for women: cancer screenings, family planning, all kinds of health services. And this raises not questions about Planned Parenthood so much as it raises questions about, you know, the whole process, that is, not just involving Planned Parenthood, but many institutions in our country. And if there's going to be any kind of congressional inquiry, it should look at everything and not just one part of it," Clinton continued.
"There is no funding that, you know, would be any more at risk than it already has been for years because this has been an ongoing dispute, and I'm well aware that passions are very high. I have said for more than 22 years that abortion should be legal, safe and rare. And as first lady, I led an effort to try to lower the number of teenage pregnancies and we succeeded, and as President I will continue to work toward that so that women are fully empowered, they can afford to make responsible decisions, and I hope that we will be successful with that," she added.
Recently, the activist group Center for Medical Progress has released three undercover videos, two of which show Planned Parenthood executives discussing the costs surrounding the procurement of aborted fetal tissue.
The abortion provider denies making any profit off of the donation of fetal body parts, but the recent videos have resulted in some lawmakers calling for an investigation of the abortion group.
