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UNDERCOVER VIDEO captures Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast exec Melissa Farrell admitting her doctors alter abortion procedures and she manipulates prices to accommodate specific fetal tissue harvesting requests — including delivering fully intact fetuses — though doing so may violate federal law.

WASHINGTON — Under fire for its role in providing fetal tissue for research, Planned Parenthood asked the government's top health scientists Wednesday to convene a panel of independent experts to study the issues surrounding the little-known branch of medicine. Planned Parenthood's request to the National Institutes of Health came as Senate Republicans pressed their fight to bar the organization from receiving federal aid. Likely opposition from at least one GOP senator highlighted the long odds the GOP will face in a Senate showdown vote expected early next week. The group also took its websites down after a hacker attack it...

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Two packages containing human body parts including a liver and a partial head that were intended for a Traverse City lab instead were delivered to a home. The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off at Franck and Ludivine Larmande's Kent County home by a DHL express driver who believed the bubble-wrapped items were pieces to a table. ``My husband started to unwrap one and said, 'This is strange, it looks like a liver,''' Ludivine Larmande told The Grand Rapids Press. ``He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw...