House Panel Votes to Hold StemExpress in Contempt for Disobeying Subpoenas About Baby Part Sales

lifenews ^ | september 22, 2016 | Cheryl Sullenger

[Morgana]

Despite parliamentary antics on the parts of pro-Planned Parenthood Democratic members of the Select Panel on Infant Lives, followed by several minutes of castigation of the Panel’s investigation, a markup meeting took place today where the Panel voted to hold StemExpress and its CEO, Cate Dyer, in contempt for failing to comply with subpoenas.

Democratic members, led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, refused to participate in the actual vote and walked out of the meeting. The resolution passed with 8 yes votes.

A House Resolution Report seeking the contempt charges details a pattern of deception and stonewalling employed by StemExpress that was used to stall an investigation by the House Select Panel on Infant Lives.

StemExpress, an organ procurement company, was under investigation by the Select Panel due to its financial and professional relationship with Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses. Evidence released by the Center for Medical Progress last year indicated that Planned Parenthood illegally profited financially from the sale of aborted baby remains to StemExpress and other organ procurement organizations.

At issue are accounting records that were first voluntarily requested by the Select Panel from StemExpress. Instead of accounting documents, the Select Panel was provided inadequate summaries. When Dyer and her company refused to comply, the Select Panel issued subpoenas to require compliance.

According to the report, StemExpress told the Select Panel to seek the financial records from its outside accountant, the Scinto Group. However, when the Panel approached the Scinto Group, it refused to comply because Stem Express objected to their compliance.

The panel was also told to seek accounting documents from a former accountant, Sara Lee Heuston, who happened to be represented by StemExpress’ attorney. During a conversation with Heuston, she told the Select Panel she had no documents “and that if the Panel contacted her again she would call the police.”

Dyer has refused to supply the Select Panel with the names of current accountants for her company.

“This is the very definition of the ‘run-around,’” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue who also served as a founding board member for the Center for Medical Progress. “Dyer has a lot to hide, so to keep the Select Panel accessing incriminating documents that may implicate her and her Planned Parenthood cohorts, she would rather face contempt charges.”

The efforts by the Select Panel spanning to obtain the accounting documents from Dyer and StemExpress have spanned eight months. Now Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Chairman of the Select Panel, believes they have reached an impasse, which is impeding the Panel’s ability to conduct the investigation with which it was tasked.

Rep. Blackburn sought the contempt charges to break through the stonewalling and compel compliance so the Panel could get to the truth about whether laws were broken.

The contempt resolution will be referred to the full Committee on Energy and Commerce. If it is approved, it will be referred to the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for certification. Contempt is a Class A misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of $100,000.

In a separate matter, Rep. Blackburn removed from the agenda a resolution to release the May 11, 2016, deposition of abortionist Eve Espey of the University of New Mexico. The deposition was taken as part of the Panel’s investigation into the UNM and Southwestern Women’s Options, a late term abortion facility that supplied UNM with aborted baby remains. No reason for removing the resolution was given.

Read the Select Panel’s Contempt Resolution Report

[Makana]

About time. Chopping up fetuses for parts certainly qualifies for “contempt”.

[Enterprise]

It’s a good start. Now send the Sergeant at Arms to arrest said CEO and clap her in irons.

[Liz]

I wonder how many of those surrendering their children to this beastly Planned Parenthood ever comes to see it for what it truly is, the fruit of their womb is nothing more than a commodity packaged like a meat product and traded by the money changers. All the while the Clintons and the Obamas smile approvingly in the background,

Remember when the "kind-hearted and compassionate" Clintons (Bill
was then-President) assured us that abortion would be "safe, legal and rare?"

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The kindly compassionate Clintons "forgot" to mention that they
themselves opened the gates so that Planned Parenthood could traffic
(and profit) in baby body parts.

(EXCERPT--WND.COM). Then-Pres Clinton is credited w/ opening up the market in fetal body parts. Since Clinton signed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993, “fetal-tissue research” has expanded into a federally subsidized multi-million dollar industry of selling human spare parts salvaged from abortions.

For example, the NIH budgeted $21 million in fiscal year 1999 for grants and awards for fetal tissue research. At the University of Washington, the NIH subsidizes the central laboratory for human embryology.

According to a lab notice obtained by WorldNetDaily, it “can supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days to term. Specimens are obtained within minutes of passage, and tissues are aseptically identified, staged, and immediately processed according to the requirements of individual investigators.” The notice is signed by Alan G. Fantel of the department of pediatrics.

At the time, two organizations that profited from this growth industry were (the now defunct) Opening Lines, a business formerly located in West Frankfort, Illinois...... and Anatomic Gift Foundation, headquartered in Laurel, Maryland.

Opening Lines gives credit to President Clinton for opening up the lucrative business in fetal tissue trade.

According to Opening Lines, on January 22, 1993, Clinton lifted the moratorium on federal funding. “This action created a great demand for fetal tissue and has made possible the development of treatments for individuals afflicted with serious diseases and disorders,” says the sales brochure.

Both companies served as wholesalers for the marketing of baby body parts to researchers, drug companies, hospitals and universities. These groups harvest the baby parts from abortion clinics and ship them to their customers.

Opening Lines provides fetal tissue researchers with a “fee for service schedule,” which gives prices for each body part. For example, Opening Lines charged:

<><> $150 for a spinal column;

<><> $400 for an intact embryonic cadaver;

<><>$75 for 8-week-old baby's eyeballs (40% discount for a single eye);

<><>$150 for two arms or legs; and,

<><> $100 for the skin of a 12-week-old baby.

[Liz]

HILLARY'S "HEART OF GOLD" CAMPAIGN STRATEGY Plans to showcase her "kind-heartedness and compassion;" emphasizing her sucking-up to the snarling abortion worshippers. Will use the classic compassionate Democrat MO---unleashing more govt power on the unborn.

"A vote for me is a vote for a Fully-Fornicating Society. I'll order non-stop govt
aggression over the unborn.I will end the punishment of an unwanted birth."

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Hillary knows the genital-sniffing Planned Parenthood abortion worshippers who populate the Dem party are crazy over the Clintons.

Bill and Hillary are the living breathing embodiment of The Fully-Fornicating Society w/ none of the evidence of sexual activity.....the "nuisance" of an actual child being born.

Hillary and Bill successfully exploited Bill's ability to have sex w/ younger women. Bill gives sex-obsessed lefties a vicarious thrill....visions of the married, gray-haired Clinton getting a young WH intern to crawl under his desk to give him a BJ is better than Viagra.

[2001convSVT]

Or maybe send in Hans Blix, that will have them shaking in their boots.

I am not to optimistic about a congressional contempt decree, it doesn’t have much teeth and the politicians are reluctant to give it bite (re-election and stepping on toes, you know).

[lodi90]

It’s a good start. Now send the Sergeant at Arms to arrest said CEO and clap her in irons.

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Yawn. It’s all theater. The House GOP won’t lift a finger to stop these butchers. Nothing will come of this.

[Ray76]

Jan Schakowsky is a communist.

[Ray76]

In order for the contempt finding to have any meaning, the contemnor must be punished. The punishment Congress can mete out is imprisonment.

[CivilWarBrewing]

In the midst of the news media becoming an arm of the Executive Branch, the U.S. arming TERRORISTS in Syria for the purpose of pushing Muslim 'refugees' into the EU and U.S., and George-Soros-organized rioting in our streets in an attempt to RALLY THE BLACK VOTE FOR HILLARY IN NC, what is 0bama's legacy?

His legacy is the NULLIFICATION of Congress' authority via the RAMPANT DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE and refusal to respond to their SUBPOENAS!

[CivilWarBrewing]

Fill in the blank:

________ _________ is a communist

(Enter name of just about ANYONE in the 0dunga administration; John Kerry, Valerie Jarrett, John Brennan, Hillary Clintoon, Cheryl Mills, blah blah blah)

[Ray76]

It’s not just rhetoric, she really is.

Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). is with the Democratic Socialists of America, Chicago chapter. DSA is the US branch of the Socialist International

[Ann Archy]

OMG!! COULD they MOVE ANY SLOWER???? Idiots! This should have been done IMMEDIATELY!

[Ann Archy]

Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!

[wildbill]

The new normal for Congressional subpoenas if for the recipient, if a leftist, to ignore them and depend on Dem support in Congress and in the MSM to defend their actions as ‘a response to GOP Congressional partisan harassment’.

We still have the former Atty. General running around free as a bird while still under contempt citation. This is a breakdown in the rule of law in the country at all levels of Democrat partisans.

My understanding of the process is that Congress has the authority to have the Capitol police arrest them inside the DC city limits. Anyone know if this is true?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I wonder how many of those surrendering their children to this beastly Planned Parenthood ever comes to see it for what it truly is, the fruit of their womb is nothing more than a commodity packaged like a meat product and traded by the money changers.”

That unvarnished TRUTH deserves a *BUMP*

Heartbreaking. And I’ll never look at a package of bologna the same way again, either. No sane person should.

[BuffaloJack]

It isn’t just intentionally aborted fetuses that these people traffic in. Some years back, my wife had a miscarriage about 7 or 8 weeks in. Afterward, my wife asked for the fetus so that we could bury it properly. The doctor told us that it had been disposed by a medical research facility. Since it was only 2 hours after the miscarriage, I told him that he was a liar and that if he didn’t produce the miscarried fetus, I would inflict bodily harm on him. We got the fetus back (in a specimen container label human fetus) and we arranged for a small private funeral.