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“Last week, Republicans on the panel they call the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, which we call the Select Panel to Attack Women's Health, voted to recommend criminal contempt against a small biotech company and its owner and also release publicly the name of a doctor who has been interviewed privately by that panel. These actions are a disgrace to the House. Over the past year, the select panel Republicans have abused congressional authority to harass, intimidate, and bully doctors and researchers, with the ultimate goal of driving companies away from fetal tissue research and ending lifesaving research. They have done this largely out of the public view and, ironically, at the same time that Chair Blackburn and other leading Republicans profess support for researchers and for funding 21st century cures. Tragically, their stealth campaign against lifesaving research is working. One tissue procurement company informed the panel that: ``Due in large part to the costs borne from having to respond to these congressional inquiries, our client is no longer doing business.'' The University of California at Los Angeles told us that ``recent national events have increased the challenge of obtaining the fetal tissues'' needed for ongoing research.…”