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Anti-Choice Activists Allegedly Hack Planned Parenthood Website

HeadlineJul 28, 2015

Anti-choice hackers have reportedly released Planned Parenthood’s website databases and employee email addresses in a targeted attack. The hack comes after anti-choice activists released edited videos that appear to show Planned Parenthood doctors discussing the practice of sharing fetal tissue with researchers. In an interview on ABC’s This Week, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said the donations are never for profit, and any charges cover only the cost of transmission to researchers.

Cecile Richards: “Doctors repeatedly said — it’s all been edited out — Planned Parenthood does not at all profit from fetal tissue donation, which is an important proven element of healthcare research in this country. I think what’s not told is that, of course, these [videos] are highly, selectively edited. The folks behind this, in fact, are part of the most militant wing of the anti-abortion movement that has been behind the bombing of clinics, the murder of doctors in their homes and in their churches, and that’s what actually needs to be looked at.”

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