California Democrats Refuse to Audit Planned Parenthood in Wake of Baby Parts Scandal

Drew Belsky : Aug 31, 2015
LifeSiteNews.com

"What I don't understand is why someone would oppose looking into the allegations that have been made and assuring the public." -Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez

(Sacramento, CA)—Unlike over a dozen other states, California is resisting calls to investigate Planned Parenthood. (Photo via LifeSiteNews)

On Monday, Democrats in the Golden State's Joint Legislative Audit Committee rejected a request, made by Republican assemblywoman Melissa Melendez and twelve other lawmakers, to audit the national abortion giant. Melendez assured her colleagues that she had no intention to defund Planned Parenthood but insisted that the scandal involving Planned Parenthood's harvesting and sale of aborted babies' body parts demands state action.

"What I don't understand," Melendez said, "is why someone would oppose looking into the allegations that have been made and assuring the public."

The pro-life Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has now released eight videos showing disturbing practices by Planned Parenthood and the tissue procurement company StemExpress, with whom Planned Parenthood was a partner until recently.

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