HOUSTON – For the second time this month, Planned Parenthood is becoming the target of an anti-abortion group.
On Monday, the organization confirmed that anti-abortion hackers have tried to collect staff email addresses, passwords, internal emails, and other private information.
"I am personally pro-life but I am not for hacking into any database or exposing anyone for any reason," said Jan Kelly.
"I don't think it's ever OK to do it," Brenda Swain.
The recent hacking attempt comes about two weeks after an anti-abortion group called "The California-Based Center for Medical Progress" posted a controversial video about Planned Parenthood on YouTube.
The video suggests that Planned Parenthood harvests body parts from aborted fetuses and makes money off tissue donations, which would be illegal.
"The allegation that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true," said Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The Texas Tribune has reported that the anti-abortion group responsible for the video may have visited a Planned Parenthood facility in Houston.
Conservative lawmakers are now calling for efforts to de-fund Planned Parenthood.
"I could talk about the video but I think I'd vomit trying to talk about it. It's disgusting," said House Speaker John Boehner.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood said it has alerted the Department of Justice and the FBI about the recent hacking attempt, saying in part "We treat matters of safety and security with the utmost importance, and are taking every measure possible to mitigate these criminal efforts to undermine our mission and services."
Texas is one of several states planning to investigate Planned Parenthood.