Please turn to the exhibits beginning with the two. This is the Procurement Company brochure handed out at National Conferences where Abortion Clinic managers were in attendance. Notice it says financially profitable. Fiscally rewarding. Financial benefit to your clinic. Look at exhibit b3. Which is a website grew grab of the procurement business. Once again, financially profitable. While also providing a financial benefit to your own plenty. Evidently the procurement business is not familiar with the waxman prohibition. Turn the page and look at exhibits before and five. The procurement business target in 2010 with three clinics in two years it was up to 30 and in 30 years it had nearly 100. Further, they were negotiating a contract to have over 250 clinics by this year. But the comarketing negotiations with the National Abortion trade organization fell apart just about the time the videos came out last year. You do not have to be a lawyer to see whats going on here. You put up a webs
Website. And so, i think your words need to be taken down. Accusing staff our staff of leaking that is not true. Those words should be taken down. Madam chair . Blackburn the staff had asked for the documents to be shared. Before thehared website, released to the entity. In order to take comments down, they have to be personal in nature. So with that, let us begin with our opening statement. And then, we will receive our first panel of witnesses. As i was beginning earlier, i want to welcome all of our witnesses who are here today. Im going to introduce each of you later. As we move forward with our testimony on the pricing of fetal tissue, as part of my opening statement, i will present a narrative about the exhibits that todays hearing will discuss. I have said many times that my hope is that both parties can Work Together on some things. And todays subject matter should be an opportunity to do so for a couple of reasons. First, at our initial hearing on bioethics and fetal tissue, a
Offenses, corporate internal investigations, and compliance matters. Mr. Michael norton served as u. S. Attorney for colorado from 198093. He was appointed by president reagan and we appointed by president george h. W. Bush. Mr. Norton has been practicing law since 1976 and is admitted to the bars in the states of colorado and virginia. As well as washington, d. C. Trenton as a scholar with the institute which offers Research Papers on science, medicine and research in the service of human life. She was an attorney with the Alliance Defending freedom and is a graduate of Georgetown University law school. Mr. Sukhia was appointed u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of florida. He has also served as law clerk at the Florida Supreme Court and the u. S. Court of appeals and as a senior partner in one of floridas oldest and largest statewide firms. He began his own firm in the Florida State capital in 2008. You are aware that the select Investigative Panel is holding an investigative h
He swore that in his affidavit, this is somebody who is watching out for perhaps being prosecuted at the hearing that he had no personal knowledge of anyone at planned parenthood selling fetal tissue for profit. During his testimony, this is about 15 years ago, he admitted that he was paid by an antiabortion group to appear in the sting video. And i want to quote what he said. When i was under oath, i told the truth. Anything i said on the video when i was not under oath that is a different story. Does that not sound like the story of this video . I think it does. I want to know how you can protect yourself as an institutional matter, how do you deal with these repeated stings, unsuccessful though they are, being approached year after year as you attempt to provide Health Services for lowincome women . What do you do as an institutional matter with repeated stings to keep going in the face of this activity . Well, i think what keeps us going, and i think i could speak here for the thou
What we have seen so far the ears have heard what were said. Also, i would address the unnecessary attacks coming from some on the other side. Especially on men taking an interest in the lives of people most important in our lives. If men in this society arent allowed to defend and stand for the women and children we love, where has the country fallen to . It is a shame when we have brought into a frenzy and concern about what happens to our babies, our most defenseless. I just held in my arms my brandnew granddaughter three weeks ago in the african country where she was born. And i thanked god for that unique special life. And i told my soninlaw on the way home. I said its amazing, prince, as we drive home today, having never met this little girl before, i would give my life for her. I love her. Shes unique and special. Thats why we have this hearing today. We want to get to the truth. We want to make sure Womens Health care issues are dealt with and dealt with appropriately. Meeting