The U.S. Department of Justice is finally going to investigate Planned Parenthood for the illegal selling of the body parts of aborted children. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in December 2016 called for the investigation after the publication of the “Human Fetal Tissue Research: Context and Controversy” report.

The charges were denied by Planned Parenthood, but this is a remarkable step forward in the battle for awareness of the sanctity of all life, born and unborn and the dignity of the human body both in life and in death. There is the growing recognition of exactly what it is that Planned Parenthood is actually promoting an agenda that is in fact anti-life.

Yes, some of the services provided do not involve contraception and the murder of innocents through abortion, but as Brooklyn-born Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany, N.Y., stated concerning the Planned Parenthood organization: while Planned Parenthood does offer some “unobjectionable services,” it is not unlike saying “that a man who beats his wife sometimes gives her flowers.”

Let the course of justice take its time in this investigation of Planned Parenthood. Let the scrutiny begin, and, as things naturally come to light, let us all, no matter what side of the political spectrum we fall on, objectively examine just what Planned Parenthood does indeed stand for in its policies.