GOP Lawmaker: Planned Parenthood No Different Than ‘Nazi Germany’

Kathy Calver adjusts signs she placed on her shoes as she and other anti-abortion activists rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol to condemn the use in medical research of tissue samples obtained from aborted fetus... Kathy Calver adjusts signs she placed on her shoes as she and other anti-abortion activists rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol to condemn the use in medical research of tissue samples obtained from aborted fetuses, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) MORE LESS
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A Texas state representative compared Planned Parenthood to Nazi Germany at a rally at the Texas capitol on Tuesday following the release of “sting” videos by an anti-abortion group, the Houston Chronicle reported.

“To find out that this culture of death is now leading to the sale – this is no different than what happened in Nazi Germany,” said state Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R) at the rally sponsored by the Texas Alliance for Life in Austin, according to the Chronicle. “No different than doing the experiments on the old men and old women and now doing them on the babies. And I am so proud that Texas always takes the lead in trying to turn back what started with Roe v. Wade.”

The Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee plans to hold a hearing Wednesday on the organization’s practices regarding the sale fetal tissue.

The videos, published by The Center for Medical Progress, purportedly show a high-level Planned Parenthood official discussing the sale of fetal tissue, which ignited a storm among the pro-life movement, and, on the other side #StandWithPP.

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  1. YOu KNOW whaT’s LIKE NAZI GermanY? EVERYTHING. ThaT’s what!1!!!1!one!1!!!

    ANd ALSO HITLEr!, LIBtards.

  2. For the GOP it must be Nazi Tuesday. Who said this only happens on a Monday??
    I miss the days of Meatless Mondays and Taco Tuesdays, don’t you?

    Crankin’ up the Crazy is an everyday thing now in the U.S. of A.

  3. The GOPers must be taking a course in how to bastardize history and the Holocaust as they come into office

  4. Avatar for wtf1 wtf1 says:

    The first one that invokes Nazis/Hilter LOSES!

  5. “the organization’s practices regarding the sale fetal tissue.”

    Ugggh. You’re doing it again. DO. NOT. ADOPT. THEIR. LANGUAGE. This has nothing to do with “the organization’s practices regarding the sale [of] fetal tissue.” It has to do with “the organization’s practices regarding the preservation, storage and transportation for donation of fetal tissue.”

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