During the GOP debate on CNN, Carly Fiorina made allegations against Planned Parenthood. She told the story of a video where abortion doctors kept a fetus alive because they needed its brain. The whole story appears to be fabricated. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“During the Republican debate earlier this month, Carly Fiorina referred to the Planned Parenthood sting videos made by the Center for Medical Progress: “Watch a fully formed fetus on the table,” she said, “its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”
That does not appear on the video. The video does include an interview with a technician who claims that she has seen this happen, and there’s some spliced footage of an abortion used to illustrate her testimony. But that’s it. Nevertheless, Fiorina has doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on the accuracy of her obviously inaccurate statement.”