A conservative Christian group is asking a dozen members of Congress to return campaign funds received from a Planned Parenthood PAC in the past two years.
Family Research Council Action, the legislative affiliate of the Family Research Council, on Friday cited 11 Democrats who have accepted a total of $84,310 in the past two years. One Republican also accepted $2,800.
"Planned Parenthood hasn't yet disclosed the amount of cash they've received in exchange for the selling of baby parts including heads, hearts, livers and lungs," said FRC Action President Tony Perkins. "But we do know that Planned Parenthood's PAC has doled out $87,110 in campaign contributions to these dozen House members.
"We call on these dozen House members, and any other candidate running for elected office, to return these contributions and call on Planned Parenthood to disclose to taxpayers and Congress the full extent of their role in pain-capable abortions, baby organ harvesting and partial-birth abortions."
The request follows the release of an undercover video of a top Planned Parenthood director discussing how abortion doctors collect aborted fetal tissue for biomedical companies, who then sell it to medical researchers.
A statement from Planned Parenthood rejected the implications of the video, and stressed that its health centers only assist patients who want to donate fetal tissue for scientific research. Transport costs for moving the donated fetal tissue to research centers are sometimes reimbursed, the statement added, a "standard across the medical field."
The lawmakers who received funds and the amounts accepted, according to Family Research Council Action:
• Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., $10,000
• Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., $10,000
• Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., $8,610
• Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., $7,500
• Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., $10,000
• Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., $9,700
• Rep. Gwen Graham, D-Fla., $5,500
• Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Calif., $10,000
• Rep. Rick Nolan, D-Minn., $2,500
• Rep. Sean Maloney, D-N.Y., $10,000
• Rep. Brad Ashford, D-Neb., $500
• Rep. Richard Hanna, R-N.Y., $2,800