House Panel Issues Subpoenas in Fetal Tissue Research Inquiry
Source: nytimes
House Panel Issues Subpoenas in Fetal Tissue Research Inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/politics/house-panel-issues-subpoenas-in-fetal-tissue-research-inquiry.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
By GARDINER HARRISMARCH 30, 2016
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Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, leads the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives. Credit Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call
WASHINGTON — A special House committee empaneled to investigate fetal tissue research issued subpoenas on Wednesday to eight medical organizations as part of an investigation that has led to charges of intimidation.
“The Select Investigative Panel is working in a thoughtful and thorough manner to find the facts about what exactly is going on at these abortion businesses and procurement organizations,” said Representative Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee who leads the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives. “Unfortunately, some of these organizations have so redacted documents — even after being subpoenaed — that it is impossible for us to get the complete picture of what is actually going on.”
Fred Fox, Biomed IRB’s executive director, ......................
The House panel was created to investigate fetal tissue research after the release of surreptitiously recorded videos that claimed to show Planned Parenthood officials trying to profit illegally from the sale of such tissue.
The videographers were indicted in Texas, ...............
.......................Twenty states have cleared Planned Parenthood or decided not to investigate. Few affiliates nationwide were engaged in fetal tissue transfers.
Ganogen Inc., based in San Leandro, Calif., also received subpoenas. The company is implanting fetal kidneys into rats in hopes of growing them large enough for transplants. The research has drawn the ire of anti-abortion activists, who have described the work as “horrific.”
The committee’s investigators hope the subpoenas will reveal what Republicans say is the seedy, unethical and gruesome world of fetal tissue research. But abortion rights and research advocates say that women never decide to have an abortion to provide tissue for researchers, so the tissue would be discarded, or it could be used for research that could potentially save millions of lives.
Some research using fetal tissue — including studies seeking to give mobility to people paralyzed after motor vehicle crashes — is showing extraordinary promise, researchers say........
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Lots of folks here on DU use twitter--so twitter her and let her know your thoughts on this witch hunt. I really think that bringing ordinary people into the halls of Congress and exposing them and their idenity for all--she and other Republicans expose these folks --and their families to harm. Lots of crazy RW nuts out there!!--or comment on her official facebook. #standwithPP
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