The 'Pro-Life' War Against Planned Parenthood Is Actually Costing Lives

Anti-abortion lawmakers’ dogged focus on restricting Planned Parenthood’s activities — which they say is about protecting innocent lives — is actually hampering lifesaving medical research.

Last summer, a series of heavily edited videos accused Planned Parenthood of illegally selling “aborted baby parts,” a misleading reference to the tissue samples from aborted fetuses that some patients at women’s health clinics choose to donate to science. Since then, multiple states have moved to ban the use of fetal tissue in medical research.

For months, scientists warned that politicians should not cut off access to this essential resource, which has been instrumental in developing treatments for degenerative diseases. And now, their warnings are starting to come to fruition....
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/06/01/3783672/planned-parenthood-scientific-research/