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Republicans in
Congress have threatened to pull $500 million in federal funding
a year from Planned Parenthood after a group that opposes
abortions released videos that suggest the organization profits
from supplying aborted fetal tissue for medical research.
Planned Parenthood said it broke no laws, because abortion
providers are allowed to charge costs to cover expenses
associated with fetal tissue donation.
"If this bill went into effect, blocking our health centers from
serving patients who rely on publicly funded programs for health
care, millions of people would struggle to access quality
reproductive health care," Dawn Laguens, executive vice
president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a
statement.
(Reporting by Julia Edwards and Roberta Rampton; Editing by
Emily Stephenson and Eric Walsh)
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