The recent release of a video that seemingly shows a Planned Parenthood executive talking about preserving fetal tissue for scientific research and their potential selling prices has given Republican presidential candidates quite the talking point. Candidates including Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have denounced the video in a renewed call for pro-life rights.
"There is no place for taxpayer funding of organizations that profit from taking away innocent life, much less profiting off the bodies of the lives they have stolen," Cruz said in a statement. "It should renew efforts to fully defund Planned Parenthood to ensure that its morally bankrupt business receives not one penny of taxpayer money." Walker called the video, which depicts a Planned Parenthood executive eating a salad with a glass of wine while talking about fetal body parts, "absolutely horrifying and disgusting."
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