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In 2015 the anti-abortion organization The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a number of videos that had been secretly recorded by actors hired by CMP. In the videos, the actorswho were posing as representatives of a fake biotechnology companydiscussed acquiring tissue and organs from aborted fetuses with officials for The videos and CMP's allegations attracted widespread media coverage and caused widespread protests, re-invigorating the long-running political debate over abortion in the United States. In response to the controversy, Congressional lawmakers considered several bills to defund Planned Parenthood, none of which have become law. Several states elected to cut contracts and funding for Planned Parenthood. Multiple states—Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Kansas—initiated investigations and none have found that Planned Parenthood clinics have illegally handled tissues as alleged by CMP and Planned Parenthood's adversaries. An investigation by the United States House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee found no evidence of wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood. A select committee, the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood, was formed to further investigate Planned Parenthood. On October 13, 2015, Planned Parenthood announced that they would no longer accept reimbursement for fetal tissue donations. == CMP's videos == The CMP videos consisted of portions of secretly recorded, hours-long conversations between actors hired by the CMP and Planned Parenthood staff. The actors posed as representatives of a non-existent company called Biomax Procurement Services, presenting themselves as potential buyers of fetal tissue and organs.〔 CMP claims that it has "hundreds if not thousands of hours of recordings."〔 The videos were made over a period of 30 months, and have been released at a pace of about one a week.〔 The purpose has been to increase exposure, including media coverage, and to allow the public more time to consume and react to each video.〔 Americans United for Life began working with CMP beginning in January 2015, providing them with advice.〔 There were widespread protests at PPFA affiliates.〔〔〔 The debate over abortion was reinvigorated.〔 In the first video there is discussion concerning fetal hearts, lungs and livers and efforts to retrieve these organs intact during abortion procedures.〔 She also gave a range of cost estimates for procuring fetal organs.〔 In the second video much of the conversation focused on how much money the buyers should pay. At one point the officials appeared to suggest that abortion procedures could be modified in order to preserve fetal organs and tissue.〔 The third video features an interview with a StemExpress employee who states an "incentive to try and get the hard stuff ‘cause you’re going to get more money."〔 In the fourth video a Planned Parenthood official worries that what the undercover activists are suggesting will be perceived as "selling fetal parts across states."〔 An unnamed medical assistant in the video, while examining a sample is quoted as saying "it's another boy!"〔〔 The fifth video shows activists posing leading questions and devoting nearly one-third of the video to what The Guardian describes as a "stomach-churning sequence of anti-abortion activists picking through a bowl of fetal tissue."〔 The videos include graphic footage of a technician picking through the remains of an aborted fetus looking for specific organs and body parts.〔〔 Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, described the actions as "an extremely offensive intrusion and lack of respect for women, with footage of medical tissue in a lab," and said the video showed no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood.〔 The video includes an image of a stillborn fetus, published in the ''Daily Mail'' in January 2014, used without the permission of the woman in the photo, and in a way that falsely suggests that the stillborn was aborted.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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