Washington, DC - During a hearing held today by the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives to examine The Pricing of Fetal Tissue, Fay Clayton, a lead Democrat witness, told the panel that StemExpress should be asked to turn over their banking records and documents to determine if they have or haven’t profited from the sale of baby body parts.
When asked by Chairman Marsha Blackburn about what documents she would request or subpoena from these procurement businesses, Clayton said she’d “have them [StemExpress] come in, put them under oath…and ask them how did you come up with this charge?"
“Now that their own witness has testified about the need for StemExpress to provide us with information we have subpoenaed, hopefully Democrats will finally come to the table and work with us in a bipartisan fashion to encourage attorneys for StemExpress to comply with our requests," Chairman Blackburn said. “Accounting documents don’t lie, and so far the evidence we’ve compiled shows that further investigation is warranted. Our task is to get all the facts, and it is my hope that all members of this investigative panel will work together in that effort."
Documents uncovered so far by the work of the Select Investigative Panel shows it is more likely than not that abortion clinics and middleman procurement businesses may have violated federal law by profiting from the payments they collected from the sale of baby body parts. Title 42 USC § 289g-2, which prohibits the transfer of any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration, states that reasonable costs include transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, and storage - none of which it appears the abortion clinics did based on documents examined at today’s hearing.
Witnesses at Today’s Hearing Included:
* U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE)
* U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
* Fay Clayton - Robinson Curley & Clayton, P.C.
* Catherine Glenn Foster - Charlotte Lozier Institute, Sound Legal
* Brian Lennon - Warner Norcross & Judd
* Michael Norton - Thomas N. Scheffel & Associates, P.C.
* Robert Raben - President and Founder, The Raben Group
* Kenneth Sukhia - Sukhia Law Group
