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11 Quick Takeaways From House Hearing On Aborted Baby Parts Trafficking
thefederalist.com ^ | April 21, 2016 | Mollie Hemingway

Posted on 04/22/2016 12:32:31 PM PDT by Morgana

Abortion clinics and the businesses that purchase aborted baby parts likely conspired to violate federal laws against fetal human organ trafficking, expert witnesses at a House hearing testified yesterday. Evidence of a widespread market for unborn baby parts — down to the tongue, scalp, eyes — was introduced at a testy hearing of the House Select Panel on Infant Lives.

Here are the 11 big takeaways from the hearing chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, (R-TN). 1) Federal Law Prohibits Profiting Off of Aborted Baby Parts

In 1993, the House passed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 with an amendment stating, “It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration if the transfer affects interstate commerce.” Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), the abortion rights proponent who pushed the amendments, said at the time, “It would be abhorrent to allow the sale of fetal tissue and a market to be established for that sale.”

Witnesses such as Catherine Glenn Foster of the Charlotte Lozier Institute testified that the law has not been enforced in the last 23 years, permitting just such a market to flourish.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: abortion; bodyparts; fetalbabyparts; plannedparenthood; plannedparnthood; prolife

1 posted on 04/22/2016 12:32:31 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

#1 Abortionist are evil and should face the same fate their victims do.


2 posted on 04/22/2016 12:35:34 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

#1 Abortionist are evil and should face the same fate their victims do.

Absolutley!

I have asked this before does anybody know what is done with these baby parts? What do they do with it once they buy it. What is it used for...


3 posted on 04/22/2016 12:44:59 PM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Morgana
But, but, but, she wants her Lamborghini.

No kidding. She really wants it.

Really!

4 posted on 04/22/2016 12:49:50 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: Morgana
I refuse to read it, but our loacl liberal rag reprinted a column by the WaPo bedwetter Dana Milbank titled:

"Republicans finish discrediting their Planned Parenthood investigation "

Knowing how that wimp thinks, I can imagine the twisted take he has on the whole thing.

5 posted on 04/22/2016 1:01:00 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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