Thread by @cybermom1999

A thread of quotes from the Investigative Panel Final Report resulting from the #CenterForMedicalProgress unedited videos from 2015. The full document can be found here lifelegaldefensefoundation.org/wp-content/upl…

Congress formed a select panel to investigate a number of claims related to Planned Parenthood’s activities involving abortion and fetal tissue procurement.

"The Panel did not design its investigation to prove or disprove the credibility of tapes released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP); however, the Panel viewed the videos as a series of serious claims made by a citizen advocacy group."

"Federal and state laws germane to the Panel’s investigation can be grouped into four
broad categories, with some overlap: (1) laws protecting human research subjects and
patient privacy; (2) laws regulating anatomical gifts for transplantation, therapy, research,
and education;

(3) laws protecting late-term and born-alive infants; and (4) laws pertaining to public funding for fetal tissue research and abortion providers"

"the Panel issued a subpoena to BioMed IRB which required it to produce documents sufficient to show BioMed IRB’s ongoing oversight, within the definition of
federal regulations, of any entity involved with fetal research or transplantation of fetal
tissue for which it issued an

IRB approval. BioMed IRB’s executive director informed
the Panel on April 4, 2016, that in regards to those records, “there are none.” This is an
apparent direct violation of federal regulations."

"Substantial evidence exists that Planned Parenthood clinics—at least 51 times—have overbilled Medicaid and improperly billed items to cover the costs of abortion services, in violation of the Hyde Amendment."

"The Panel found the consent practices appeared to violate both federal and state law governing informed consent. It also found that the transfer of fetal
tissue from SWWO to UNM for research purposes is a systematic violation of New Mexico’s Spradling Act"

"fraught with questionable practices, including the possible use of illegal, late-term abortion practices to procure fetal tissues and organs, violations of federal laws and regulations on patient consent, and systematic violations of patients’ HIPAA rights."

"The Panel’s investigation indicates that StemExpress and Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (PPMM), Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific (PPSP), and Family Planning Specialists Medical Group (FPS) committed systematic violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule from about 2010 to 2015."

"based on 51 known external audits or other reviews of Planned Parenthood affiliates’ financial data and practices, and 61 federal audits of state family planning programs by HHS-OIG—Planned Parenthood affiliates have overbilled $132.4 million in Medicaid
and other healthcare...

funding programs. These audit results are troubling, given their limitations in scope, detail, and timeframe; in fact, of 57 U.S. Planned Parenthood affiliates, only 19 have been audited."

"Additional evidence showed that tissue technicians and the abortion clinics violated the patient’s privacy rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Still other evidence revealed that some TPBs misrepresented that the
consent forms and

methods of tissue harvesting comply with federal regulations regarding Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). This evidence points toward conduct focused on profit and not on patient welfare."

"The Panel has uncovered evidence from former employees and a patient of a late-term
abortionist in Texas alleging numerous violations of federal and state law at one or more of the
practitioner’s clinics. The allegations include eyewitness accounts of the doctor killing infants

who show signs of life both when partially outside the birth canal, in violation of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, and after they are completely outside the birth canal, in violation of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act and Texas murder statutes."

"Over the course of its investigation, the Panel has uncovered documents and received testimony from confidential informants indicating that several entities, including four Planned Parenthood clinics and Novogenix, may have violated federal law"

"at PPFA clinics. The Panel determined that clinic personnel gave StemExpress’ tissue technicians access to patients’ personal medical information, in
violation of federal law."

"When they obtained consent to donate fetal tissue at Planned Parenthood affiliates, the StemExpress tissue technicians used Planned Parenthood’s consent form." A #PPFA executive testified that the PP consent form was misleading and could possibly be coercive, which is illegal.

"StemExpress entered contracts to procure fetal tissue" and "StemExpress paid those abortion clinics a total of $152,640 for fetal tissue. The Panel determined that the Planned Parenthood affiliates at which StemExpress procured fetal tissue had no legally reimbursable costs."

"The Panel sought to determine whether the doctors working at the abortion clinics changed their abortion procedures in order to increase the amount of fetal tissue StemExpress could obtain and thereby generate more revenue for the clinics. The director
of one independent women’s

clinic from which StemExpress procured fetal tissue
admitted that the abortion clinic changed its clinical practices to procure more liver. A
Planned Parenthood executive acknowledged making changes to obtain tissue as well."

"The Panel issued a subpoena to StemExpress that required the production of its banking
and accounting records. StemExpress refused to produce any of those records. ...the Panel recommended that the House of Representatives hold StemExpress in contempt of Congress."

These are from just the first 30 pages of a 471 page document. There is much, much more in the document linked at the top of the thread. Here's some of the testimony.