Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn today announced the first hearing of the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives will be held on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. The hearing will begin at 10:00am Eastern Time in room HVC-210 at the U.S. Capitol. Members of the Select Investigative Panel will hear testimony from expert witnesses on the issue of Bioethics and Fetal Tissue.
“It is the purpose of the Select Investigative Panel to follow the facts to find out ‘what is going on?’ but it is also our responsibility to ask ‘what does it mean?’ At our first hearing we will ask for America’s best and brightest to help us think through the ethical issues that surround procuring and selling baby body parts and related matters," said Chairman Blackburn. “We will hear from professors who teach ethics, from medical practitioners, from those who do biomedical research, from those within America’s faith traditions - so that we as legislators might become informed about the ethical implications and issues for the women who terminate a pregnancy, for the researcher, for the person who needs a cure, and for the baby. I look forward to a productive, thought-provoking discussion for all the Select Panel Members."=
WHAT: Select Investigative Panel Hearing on Bioethics and Fetal Tissue
WHEN: 10:00am ET on Wednesday, March 2, 2016
WHERE: HVC-210, United States Capitol
The Majority Memorandum, a witness list, and witness testimony will be available here as they are posted. A live webcast will also be available at the same link on the day of the hearing. See Also
* Bioethics and Fetal Tissue
