AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas attorney general says his office has received video taken in a Planned Parenthood clinic that he says is consistent with other stealthily recorded footage that has Republicans again taking on the biggest abortion provider in the U.S.
Ken Paxton would not divulge details about the footage while testifying before the Texas Health and Human Services Committee. He also wouldn’t say how his office got it.
Officials from a Houston clinic did not attend the hearing, slamming it as political theater.
The unveiling of other covertly recorded videos released this month by an anti-abortion group, showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing procedures for obtaining tissue from aborted fetuses for research. Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast says actors pretending to be from a health research company toured its clinic in April.