Political Quotes

“Let's turn to Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Herbert. In August of 2015, Gary Herbert, Utah's Republican Governor, ordered the State to strip $272,000 in Federal funding from the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah in response to a series of highly edited videos that alleged that Planned Parenthood clinics were selling fetal tissue, even though Utah's clinics were not in the video then. By the way, those videos had been found to be completely doctored, completely inaccurate, completely misleading. But despite the fact that the videos were not authentic and despite the fact that they didn't have any bearing in Utah, Governor Herbert stood by his ruling to carve out and take away funding from Planned Parenthood. So Utah's Planned Parenthood Association filed for a restraining order against the State, saying that the State was not acting justly, so they asked the Court to protect them from unjust action. In spite of his continued claim that stripping the funding was not to punish the organization for its stance on abortion but in response to the videos--the doctored, inauthentic, discredited videos--the Governor eventually admitted, while responding to Planned Parenthood's motion for a preliminary injunction, that defense of the videos involved different affiliates--not the ones in Utah--that there was not even an accusation that Planned Parenthood in Utah had broken the law--not even an accusation.…”