07-31-2015, 10:44 PM
(07-31-2015, 09:46 PM)sally Wrote: They have a legal council behind them, breaking the law is easy to do when you know how to do it. I have no doubt that they're profiting from it.
It's a business like any other, and no one does shit for chump change.
I haven't seen any evidence of that, and the repercussions of such illegal activity would be disastrous to the organization. Also, their legal council would be disbarred if caught advising clients on how to break the law.
Planned Parenthood is one of the most scrutinized and targeted organizations by conservative and religious politicians/groups in the country. They're not like a private for-profit company; anti-abortionists are always looking for ways to shut them down and pushing to cut off funding for the health care and planning services they provide because they also perform legal abortions.
I'm not ready to accuse PP of breaking the law just because I don't like late term-abortions and some powerful people with an agenda are making unsubstantiated insinuations. Some people and organizations do in fact donate and only look to cover their costs and get tax write-offs.
If you're right though and PP has broken the law sal, IMO they'll be caught -- they've got big guns with big power and money constantly aimed at them. I think it would be fairly easy to determine how much money the participating clinics have made, if any. Those tissues are sold to the same middlemen used by hospitals that donate tissues from umbilical chords and such, and the reimbursement costs should be in the same general ballpark (which has been confirmed to be the case, at least for the prices quoted in the undercover anti-abortionist filmed videos).
We'll see.