Vicky Hartzler: “Today I rise to bring attention to the research that the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives is conducting. On…”

“Today I rise to bring attention to the research that the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives is conducting. On April 20 of this year, Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives Chairman Marsha Blackburn held a hearing on the pricing of fetal tissue and found broad consensus among witnesses that Federal law may have been violated when abortion clinics profited from the sale of baby body parts and the privacy of women may have been violated in the process. Let's take a look at what the panel found. First, and possibly the most shocking, is a Web site where one procurement business, whose name has been redacted, has set up an online order form. From this Web site, a user can select what type of parts they want: baby brains, baby tongue, scalp, reproductive organs. The quantity is then selected of the gestational period chosen. The user even has shipping options. This is truly appalling. This is online shopping for baby parts, and this procurement business has made it as easy as possible. {time} 1030 But these procurement businesses are not doing this by themselves. They are only the middlemen in a transaction between the supplier--or abortion clinic--and the end user. As seen on exhibit B2, this procurement business markets itself in its brochure to abortion clinics as a way for the clinics to make additional income by allowing the procurement business technicians to collect tissues and organs from aborted babies immediately after an abortion is completed.…”