Planned Parenthood 'steam-cooked' aborted babies

Planned Parenthood will soon find itself in court discussing the "humane" way fetal remains are "steam-cooked" and sent to Ohio landfills.

A four-month report released by Ohio’s attorney general last Friday found that not only are fetal remains buried in landfills, but they are heated in an autoclave prior to shipment.

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Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit in a Cincinnati federal court Sunday after Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said the nonprofit was not in compliance with "humane" disposal methods required by law.

“First steam-cooking fetuses and then disposing of them in a landfill is not humane,” DeWine told Cincinnati.com last Friday. "It will come as a shock to Ohioans to find out that fetuses are being cooked and then they're being put in a landfill, and they’re going to be mixed in with the garbage and whatever else goes into a landfill."

DeWine's office launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood in July after undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress showed the organization's representatives discussing prices for fetal tissue, WND reported. No Planned Parenthood affiliates in Ohio were selling tissue, but the probe concluded they were in violation of rules mandating fetuses "shall be disposed of in a humane manner."

Ohio Planned Parenthood President Stephanie Kight claims DeWine, a Republican, is playing politics.

"The state is now claiming that Planned Parenthood is in violation of this regulation, despite the fact that for decades, Planned Parenthood has followed these regulations and has never been cited by the state for violation," Kight said on Sunday, Reuters reported.

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Troy Newman, president of the abortion-practitioner watchdog Operation Rescue, told LifeNews.com that Planned Parenthood's lawsuit was an attempt to distract from the issue at hand.

"[It's] an obvious ploy to deflect attention from their own lawbreaking by falsely accusing the attorney general," Newman said Monday. "But perhaps the larger question is if dumping the cooked remains of aborted babies in landfills is inhumane, shouldn't we also consider the dismemberment deaths of these babies through suction or other procedures more inhumane?”

Planned Parenthood's lawsuit requests a restraining order and a preliminary injunction against the state as the Ohio Department of Health examines DeWine's findings. Three abortion providers face administrative penalties if officials agree with the report's conclusions.

U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said Friday he would look into the "next steps at the federal level" to ban disposal methods used by Planned Parenthood, Cincinnati.com reported.