Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is asking for a federal investigation into whether a Planned Parenthood chapter illegally provided human fetal tissue to a university for research.
“Not only was Planned Parenthood providing the aborted fetal tissue in exchange for ‘valuable consideration,’ emails between the groups show that Planned Parenthood and [the University of California San Diego] actively collaborated and met at regular intervals to discuss the progress of the research," the Florida lawmaker said in a letter Tuesday.
The university and the Planned Parenthood chapter did not immediate respond Wednesday to a request for comment.
According to documents released by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest provided the university with human fetal tissue from aborted fetuses in exchange for rights of results from the research conducted.
