AUSTIN – Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson has launched a criminal investigation into the video showing a Houston Planned Parenthood worker discussing the sale of fetal tissue. Anderson said she still has many questions and has asked HPD's homicide unit and the Texas Rangers to help investigate.
"The video has obviously been edited and they've got words in there, they've chopped it up. So we need to see it from beginning to end, to make sure we know the context of all the statements that have been made, and that'll be the starting place for the investigation," Anderson said. 
The fifth undercover video was taped at the Gulf Coast Planned Parenthood Center and released by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress Tuesday.
The video shows Gulf Coast Director of Research Melissa Farrell discussing the administrative costs of harvesting fetal organs at various stages of pregnancy.
"Sometimes the procedures are longer, so then anything that we piggyback onto that for collection purposes, obviously, would have to reflect that additional time, cost, administrative burden," Farrell said in the video.
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Farrell thought she was talking with two medical researchers.
"If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget," Farrell told them.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick believes Farrell's statements prove that Planned Parenthood is selling fetal parts for profit.
"The people of Texas will not accept this callous attitude toward human life, and I will not accept it, and that's why we asked the D-A to begin a criminal investigation," Patrick said.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton announced separate investigations into Planned Parenthood last week following the release of the first videos.
Abbott called the new video "repulsive and unconscionable."
Planned Parenthood officials have said their clinics, with a patient's permission, may sometimes donate fetal tissue for use in stem-cell research. Researchers may reimburse Planned Parenthood for costs associated with those donations, the organization has said.
"Extremists who oppose Planned Parenthood's mission and services are making outrageous and completely false claims. They are engaged in a fraud, and other claims they've made have been discredited and disproven," Planned Parenthood said in a written statement Tuesday. "The footage released today doesn't show Planned Parenthood staff engaged in any wrongdoing or agreeing to violate any legal or medical standards. Instead, the latest tape shows an extremely offensive intrusion and lack of respect for women, with footage of medical tissue in a lab. These extremists show a total lack of compassion and dignity for women's most personal medical decisions.
Planned Parenthood contends the videos are heavily edited as part of a smear campaign.
