WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, questioned the president of Planned Parenthood during a hearing Tuesday.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on Planned Parenthood. The hearing was part of a congressional investigation after undercover videos reportedly showed Planned Parenthood leaders haggling over the prices of organs and other tissue from aborted babies.
“Here’s the troubling truth: A picture is worth a thousand words. You can say all you want that these things were heavily edited, they were changed, but if that’s the case why did Ms. Richards apologize for the videos two days after they first surfaced? Everyone knows these videos are, as the Speaker of the House said, ‘barbaric and repulsive,’” Jordan said.
Jordan is chairman of the committee’s subcommittee of health care, benefits and administrative rules. The hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building is available online at http://j.mp/1JAYS98.
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