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Read: The Hidden-Camera Video That Pro-Lifers Claim Proves Planned Parenthood Is Selling Fetus Parts for ProfitOn Tuesday, Planned Parenthood's president, Cecile Richards, delivered a letter to the National Institute of Health saying that the women's health organization would stop taking legal reimbursements for fetal tissue, the Wall Street Journal reports.The move comes in the wake of heavily-doctored videos released last July by anti-abortion activists that appeared to show Planned Parenthood selling harvested human fetuses. The videos' subsequent controversy has incited a Republican-led campaign to federally defund the non-profit.In reality, receiving reimbursement for the costs accrued during the process of donating fetal tissue for medical research is legal, but Planned Parenthood hopes the move will put the controversy to rest."Planned Parenthood's policies on fetal tissue donation already exceed the legal requirements," Richards said in her letter. "Now we're going even further in order to take away any basis for attacking Planned Parenthood to advance an anti-abortion political agenda."The announcement has not placated the organization's opponents, however. A spokeswoman for anti-abortion group Students for Life of America said in a statement that even though "Planned Parenthood is supposedly stopping the exchange of money for the body parts of babies they abort," it still doesn't "lessen the criminal charges they are possibly facing."