Posted on 04/07/2016 11:20:26 AM PDT by Morgana
Confronting critics who say she is conducting a “witch hunt,” the chairman of a special House panel investigating the supply of tissue from aborted babies to researchers said in an interview with The Daily Signal that the panel can’t do its job without understanding the roles of all those involved.
“We know that it’s important that we act responsibly with each and every name,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who leads the House investigation of the fetal tissue industry, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
“But it is impossible for the panel to complete the investigation that we are charged by the House resolution to complete without full knowledge and without an understanding of the individuals involved in the transactions and the practices that we have been asked to investigate.”
Democrats on the select panel call the investigation a political “witch hunt” by Blackburn and other Republicans who oppose abortion. They’ve condemned the panel’s investigators for requesting the names of doctors, medical students, researchers, and others involved in the abortion and fetal tissue procurement industries, arguing that obtaining those names could make the panel “complicit in physical assaults or murders of these people.”
In making that argument, some Democrats cite the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado last fall.
“Once again, Chair Blackburn is using congressional authority to pursue baseless, inflammatory claims generated by anti-abortion extremists,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said in a formal statement after the panel issued its second round of subpoenas last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
Republicans at the Federal level, won’t do a Damn thing.
Sheesh!?
It's one of those Washington type of "Who will we find broke laws and need to not see them" kinda deals. IOW.....Every day business in Washington.
Yep. See previous message....
Yep. The”investigation” is a ride to fool the rubes.
“ruse” to fool the rubes...damn you autocorrect!!
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