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The totally bullshit waste-of-money investigative committee that calls itself the "Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives," established to create political pressure against Planned Parenthood in this election year and nothing else, has gone from a bullshit waste of time to seriously dangerous.
A House committee led by anti-abortion Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is on the verge of issuing 17 subpoenas to medical companies to gather the names of medical researchers, graduate students, laboratory technicians, and administrative staff who are in any way involved in fetal tissue research.According to Blackburn: "We are going to review the business practices of these procurement organizations and do some investigating of how they have constructed a for-profit business model from selling baby body parts." […]At the committees' first hearing on March 2, multiple committee members questioned Blackburn on her investigation, concerned that she was using the committee's name to lead a personal attack. Rep. Jerrod Nadler (D-NY) warned her of the serious implications."The committee has no rules in place to protect the names of those subpoenaed—raising the possibility of Congress effectively painting targets on the backs of scientists and researchers for no particular reason other than the Republicans’ desire for a culture war," he said.
Those subpoenas, unlikely the most recent round, did not ask for the names of everyone who might be involved with this critical medical research. Even if they're just the office administrative assistant who doesn't have anything to do with research other than maybe ordering test tubes. There's no conceivable valid reason for the committee to know the names of all of these people. None. The only reason is intimidation, threatening these researchers who are conducting what could well be life-saving and promising research into a huge number of diseases—now including Zika.
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