While Trump has called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood specifically on abortion, he appears to support taxpayer dollars being funneled to the abortion giant for other health care services – despite the fact that over 13,000 other community and federally qualified health care centers exist throughout the nation.
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Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who leads the House’s select committee, plans to issue three subpoenas this week in an effort to collect information about fetal tissue research in the USA – something that Democrats say will turn into a national database used for political purposes.
One of Toledo’s two abortion clinics has closed because it was unable to meet a state requirement that it have an emergency care transfer agreement in place with a hospital.
“Today’s vote to end funding for Planned Parenthood’s essential, preventive health care is deeply troubling and part of an intentional, calculated agenda to end women’s access to birth control and all reproductive care in Wisconsin”, the group said in a February 11 statement.
“The law is directed just at Planned Parenthood”.
Veronica Schell, a volunteer and advocacy coordinator at Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, distributes signs to supporters before a news conference at the Collier County Government Center on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in East Naples. “It is 12 pages of targeted regulations of abortion providers”.
StemExpress is a California firm that processes human fetal tissue for research, while the UNM Health Sciences Center conducts fetal tissue research to alleviate brain damage and blindness in premature babies.
In a statement, Blackburn said information from the organizations “is critical to providing us with answers to questions the American people are asking”.
“We know politicians should not be involved in decisions of where people go for health care and that is what is happening now”, Zdravecky said. “We can not leave questions unanswered”.
Southwestern Women’s Options said in a statement that it has cooperated with investigators and delivered documents Friday: “We will continue to be responsive to the panel’s inquiries and will do so in a manner that protects individuals’ safety and privacy”. Meanwhile, House Democrats on the panel blasted Blackburn in a letter Friday.
“Consequently, if forced to do so, we will issue subpoenas to any organization that refuses to fully cooperate with our investigation”, Blackburn said. “The State’s termination letter of September 15, 2015, relied on grounds that would be legally insufficient to exclude a provider”.
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“Don’t force us to pay for this awful procedure”, said Sen. Investigations by several congressional panels and states have yet to produce evidence that it acted illegally. “The Select Investigative Panel now seeks confidential client information and the identity of individual scientists and researchers through the issuance of a subpoena”. A Washington state man is facing federal charges for the alleged threats, which included, “Stop the death of innocents. That means they should not have any issue with this bill”. People want to give this a good and thorough look.Blackburn announced Thursday that the panel would issue subpoenas to three organizations that failed to fully cooperate with document requests. The burst of activity made clear that the panel, which emerged from last years turmoil inside the House GOP, is not planning to shy away from some of the countrys most polarizing issues in a presidential election year. The Democratic members described the actions as “an abusive and unjustifiable use of the chair’s unilateral subpoena authority”.
