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On the recordJune 8, 2017
Mr. President, last year the Nation was shocked by undercover videos produced by investigative journalists with the Center for Medical Progress exposing Planned Parenthood's sale of fetal body parts and the callousness with which Planned Parenthood officials described their grisly work. As we know, as Planned Parenthood and its allies in the mainstream media hoped, outrage fades with time, and attention turns--but not for long, for the abortion industry and its profiteers are never really beset by scandal. They are a scandal. Just last month we got another reminder about the reality behind the talking points. Once again, it was the undercover journalists of the Center for Medical Progress doing the investigative journalism the mainstream media refuses to do. Once again, the video has been ignored by the pro-abortion media elite, whose principal interest is the story of the prosecution of the journalists for daring to speak this truth to their power. The American people and their representatives in the U.S. Senate deserve to know what the new video shows. It shows the founder of Planned Parenthood's Consortium of Abortion Providers on a conference panel. She recounts a harrowing experience while performing an abortion: ``An eyeball just fell down into my lap, and that is gross.'' Her remarks were greeted with laughter from the audience.…
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Bill Lee
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