The fraud charges in Texas got dropped, right? They are being charged for recording someone without their permission, something even the ACLU is hedgy about.
The editing doesn't change the words the people said, didn't change the fact that money changed hands for fetal tissue, even if it wasn't for a profit.
Again, ask Katie Couric about editing, or any other lefty journalist (redundant)
How about asking the Daily show?
There's no law against selling fetal tissue as long as it's not for profit. Go pound sand.
And "for profit" is an amorphous thing which is hard to prove either way, what with how one can become creative with determining expenses and such.
Money changed hands, the people discussing it seemed callous while the conversations happened, even if no "profit" was made it makes them look rather ghoulish, which is why you idiots are so adamant about shutting things like this down regardless of the cost or the morality of it.
Planned Parenthood was investigated no fewer than 13 times and no one found they charged obstensibly more than their costs for their services. It matters not that money changed hands; by law, money can change hands.
And of course the looked ghoulish... it's a ghoulish profession and an even more ghoulish procedure. That was the whole reason the Center of Medical Progress video recorded it and released it to the public. I have no doubt they fully expected the macabre scenes would be so distasteful to the public, that those images, along with CMP's portrayal of profiteering from selling baby parts, would be enough to stir the nation into seriously reconsidering Roe v Wade.
What they didn't account for was that in today's day and age, access to information is at virtually everyone's fingertips. Perhaps in the past, they could have pulled this stunt off; but now, within 24 hours, most folks following the story learned that Planned Parent was not in this business for profit... they were charging little more than their operational costs for their services... these procedures, as ghoulish as they are, are completely within the law... abortions weren't being performed for the sake of selling baby parts, but would have been disguarded anyway if not sold... the parts being sold for legitimate research can be enormously beneficial to advance medical progress. Once people figured this out, the folks at CMP became the villains for apparently breaking the law to catch PP doing something which turned out to be legal.