Professor Hank Greely weighs in on the recent Planned Parenthood recorded videos and how views differ on what “constitutes reimbursement of fetal tissue expenses.”

expenses says ProfAfter an anti-abortion group released surreptitiously recorded videos of Planned Parenthood personnel in discussions about providing fetal tissue for research, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a pro-life Republican, pledged to “aggressively” investigate whether the women’s health organization had violated the law.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a pro-choice Democrat, also promised an investigation, but with an entirely different focus. Her office, she said, would scrutinize the anti-abortion group that made the videos to see if it had “violated laws, including but not limited to, [California’s] registration and reporting requirements.”

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For instance, views could differ on what constitutes reimbursement of fetal tissue expenses, including whether payments can help support the operating overhead of a non-profit organization supplying tissue, said Henry Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford.

“What does profit mean?” asked Greely, who noted that he donates to Planned Parenthood.