Planned Parenthood Says Carly Florina is 'Lying' Over Abortion Video Claims
Planned Parenthood has requested that GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina retract recent comments she made regarding the abortion organization in which she claimed to have viewed a video that showed Planned Parenthood employees harvesting the brain of a child born alive.
During the recent GOP presidential debates hosted by CNN, Fiorina encouraged her Democratic counterparts to view one of the many undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress activist group, arguing that one video shows "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain."
Planned Parenthood has subsequently questioned Fiorina's claim, arguing that none of the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress activist group show a live infant while employees discuss removing its brain.
Following arguments that Fiorina made false statements, the independent CARLY for America political action committee [PAC] released a video arguing that Fiorina's claims were in fact true, showing footage of the video that the GOP presidential hopeful was referencing.
Planned Parenthood has subsequently sent a letter to Fiorina's camp demanding that they remove the recent video, although the CARLY for America PAC is separate from Fiorina's political campaign.
The letter argues that the footage of the fully-developed fetus in the video is actually a stillborn fetus, not an aborted fetus.
"This fake video doesn't show what you have claimed," Dawn Laguens, the executive director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, wrote in the letter, as reported by the The Washington Post.
"Simply put, the video you described at the debate does not exist, and the video you're now asking people to watch is not what you claim it is. This fraudulent video is beneath a serious candidate for the presidency, and you should take it down immediately," Laguens added.
Planned Parenthood spokesman Eric Ferrero also spoke out against Fiorina, arguing that the GOP presidential hopeful is "lying" about the video.
"There is no polite way to say this: Carly Fiorina is lying," Ferrero stated. "There is no video showing anything like what she claims. It's just totally false, no matter how many times she repeats it."