Foes eye AG bias for Planned Parenthood
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/08/foes_eye_ag_bias_for_planned_parenthood
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY
Foes eye AG bias for Planned Parenthood
Friday, August 7, 2015
Owen Boss
Attorney General Maura Healey is blasting the debate in Washington over defunding Planned Parenthood as the most recent offensive in a decadeslong campaign to cut off womens access to health care, according to an email she fired off to supporters yesterday.
That missive quickly led abortion opponents to
accuse the states top law enforcement officer of taking a political stance they say disqualifies her from probing whether the womens health provider is scoring illegal profits from fetal parts. That charge has been leveled by anti-abortion
activists in a series of disturbing undercover videos of staffers at Planned Parenthood and another abortion provider.
Ive had enough. The latest attacks in Washington on Planned Parenthood are nothing new, Healey wrote in the email. This debate in Congress? Theres simply no there there. ... For the sake of those women and their families, lets put this smoke-and-mirrors
debate to rest. Standing up for womens health care means standing with Planned Parenthood.
Opponents were quick to seize on Healeys message, which was sent out just days after she cleared the states chapter of Planned Parenthood in the scandal.