Planned Parenthood in Memphis refused to comment on-camera on the tape.
In a statement, a spokeswoman called the allegation “serious.”
While the spokeswoman said the accuracy of the tape hasn’t been verified, she says PP has taken swift action, and is conducting additional staff training this week.

I’m sympathetic to the intent of this argument, but ultimately I don’t think it holds water. There are, after all, plenty of situations in which we applaud someone for doing one thing, even as we believe the alternative should be unacceptable or even illegal.
Imagine someone who is genuinely hungry, or even has a hungry family, who finds himself walking past an unattended fruit stand. Just because we might applaud his decision not to steal an apple, it doesn’t mean we think theft should be a legal option.

But the point wasn’t to provide the politicians and the public with accurate science from which to engage in rational analysis. It was to skew the politics and stack the deck in order to achieve a desired outcome. A pseudo scientific term was coined to carry the weight of this junk biology–and the “pre embryo” entered the lexicon.
That gave parliamentarians who wanted to authorize the research an excuse to do so. Human embryos were, suddenly, no longer human.