Planned Parenthood Will Harvest Infants For FREE!

As reported by Ed Morrissey for Hot Air:

Oh, they’ll still conduct the organ harvesting, but now they will stop asking for Lamborghinis when they do. Planned Parenthood will instruct their clinics to stop negotiating for “reimbursements” when delivering the remains of aborted babies to tissue banks. Even so, they still claim that their prior practices were totally acceptable:

Responding to a furor over undercover videos, Planned Parenthood says it will maintain programs at some of its clinics that make fetal tissue available for research, but will no longer accept any sort of payment to cover the costs of those programs.

Anti-abortion activists who recently released a series of covertly filmed videos have contended that Planned Parenthood officials sought profits from their programs providing post-abortion fetal tissue to researchers. Planned Parenthood said the videos were deceptively edited and denied seeking any payments beyond legally permitted reimbursement of costs.

The new policy — forgoing even permissible reimbursement — was outlined in a letter sent Tuesday by Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, to Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health.

“Planned Parenthood’s policies on fetal tissue donation already exceed the legal requirements,” Richards wrote. “Now we’re going even further in order to take away any basis for attacking Planned Parenthood to advance an anti-abortion political agenda.”

Suuuuuuuure they are. Despite Planned Parenthood’s claims of deceptive editing, an independent analyst found no such thing in the released videos. In a statement two weeks ago, the Alliance Defending Freedom — who represents the Center for Medical Progress in its legal battles — cited the report as vindication for CMP, and condemnation of Planned Parenthood: