Planned Parenthood calls attacks ‘a fraud’

LOS ANGELES – Planned Parenthood Federation of America defended its practices Thursday in a lengthy letter to congressional leaders and included a report by experts it hired who found undercover videos of officials discussing fetal tissue for research were heavily altered by anti-abortion activists.

The report supports the organization’s claims that the secretly recorded videos were distorted to misrepresent conversations employees had with anti-abortion activists posing as biomedical company employees interested in buying fetal tissue, Planned Parenthood said.

The letter and report were the most detailed defense to date by Planned Parenthood, which has come under fire from conservatives since the California-based Center for Medical Progress began releasing a series of undercover videos last month.

“It’s increasingly clear that this attack on Planned Parenthood is a fraud based on a web of lies and deception,” Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens told reporters.

Associated Press