Still smarting over the rejection of his state police commissioner selection, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has kicked another political hornet’s nest with his choice to replace outgoing chief of staff Katie McGinty.

Wolf on Thursday announced his legislative liaison, Mary Isenhour, will be his next chief of staff, succeeding McGinty who resigned to prepare a run for the U.S. Senate.

Isenhour, a leading adviser to Wolf’s successful gubernatorial campaign, is also a board member of Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania — an association the governor neglected to mention Thursday. Neither was the fact of her involvement disclosed in official news releases from the governor’s office.

But a biography posted on the website for Mack Sumner Communications, a left-leaning communications consultant, states that Isenhour — “a strategic partner with Mack-Sumner Communications” — serves on the board of Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania.

What makes this controversial is the recent release of videos purportedly showing Planned Parenthood officials speaking about the sale of aborted fetal body parts for profit.

The fallout thus far includes two federal investigations into whether the allegations are true, that Planned Parenthood is profiting from the sale of fetal tissue and even changing the abortion technique to harvest intact organs.

Both of these practices are illegal and, to be frank about it, disgusting.

On Friday — the day after Isenhour’s appointment — Wolf said his administration is taking steps to make sure that human fetal tissue isn’t being sold commercially in our state. He told a Pittsburgh radio station that he’s ordered a review in response to the undercover videos.

The anti-abortion group that made the video says it proves Planned Parenthood is breaking federal law against selling human fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood says it legally helps women who want to donate fetal tissue for scientific research, not sell it commercially.

Wolf says he doesn’t think that’s happening in Pennsylvania. The Department of Health says it hasn’t received any complaints.

Even so, here’s where we encounter a big glitch: Wolf normally would hand off this duty to his new chief of staff, Isenhour. Can she be trusted to investigate wrongdoing by a nonprofit agency on whose board she sits, when the allegations of wrongdoing involve for-profit ventures — and grisly, ethically abhorrent for-profit ventures at that?

It is difficult for newspapers to editorialize about topics like abortion. Opposing sides are galvanized in their positions. It’s an ideological battle nobody’s likely to win.

But the sale of body parts goes beyond abortion. It’s criminal. It’s repugnant.

Wolf is still smarting from the rejection of his state police commissioner candidate, Marcus Brown, simply because Brown put on the state trooper uniform without having attended the state police academy.

Brown looks like a saint when compared to the breaking Planned Parenthood scandal. Wolf should have appointed someone other than Isenberg.