Pro-life update: Florida committee heads in right direction; Texas grand jury heads in wrong direction
By Michael Miller · Jan 26, 2016
It’s progress, but unlikely to pass in the Florida House:
A House committee passed a bill Monday that would ban nearly all abortions in Florida, but even backers of the bill say its chances of passage, or of surviving a court challenge if it became law, likely are slim.
House Bill 865 defines human life as beginning at conception, and would make it a crime to perform an abortion unless two physicians certify in writing that it’s needed to prevent death or serious, permanent injury to the mother.
And, on the Bizarro World front, a Texas grand jury has indicted the people who exposed Planned Parenthood’s sale of fetal tissue:
A Texas grand jury investigating video-recorded allegations that Planned Parenthood was illegally selling fetal tissue instead indicted two of the people who made the controversial undercover videos.
The grand jury in Harris County indicted David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record. Daleiden was also indicted on a misdemeanor charge of “prohibition of the purchase and sale of human organs,” Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said in a statement.