Republicans on a special House panel are recommending that StemExpress and its CEO be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over accounting records. The company came under scrutiny after last year’s undercover videos of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s top abortion provider.
Amid Fetal Tissue Investigation, Republicans Seek Legal Action Against StemExpress
Kelsey Harkness / @kelseyjharkness / September 20, 2016 /
http://dailysignal.com/2016/09/20/republicans-seek-legal-action-against-stemexpress/Republicans on the panel, which is investigating the market for tissue from aborted babies, see the accounting records as crucial for the investigation.
“To date, the panel has never received a single accounting record from StemExpress,” Republicans on the Select Investigative Panel said in a new staff report. “No names of key personnel have been provided by [StemExpress CEO] Ms. Dyer so that the panel might conduct interviews, and the cost estimates have been ambiguous and inadequate.”
StemExpress is a for-profit biotechnology company that procures tissue from abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood. StemExpress then transfers that tissue to medical researchers....
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