Bishop Robert Deeley, the leader of Maine’s 193,000 Catholics, is calling on Congress to defund Planned Parenthood, citing recent undercover videos released by an anti-abortion group. “The videos are shocking,” Deeley wrote in a statement released Thursday. “Our elected officials should act to cease funding Planned Parenthood.” Deeley’s comments came a day after a congressional hearing on Planned Parenthood’s tissue-donation program. Democrats said the investigation by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee was just the latest in a decades-long effort to curtail abortion rights and was based on deceptively edited videos that show no evidence of wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood. Two months ago, a small group of anti-abortion activists began releasing videos it furtively recorded.
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Noel K. Gallagher, Portland Press Herald
Thu, 09/10/2015 - 8:56pm
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Topics: Maine Cumberland County Portland
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