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
First kind in americas history that the Supreme Court has revoked a constitutionally protected right. The first time. As a result, a womans personal decision to make her own Reproductive Health care choice is no longer protected or guaranteed by the constitution. In the words of justice kagan, sotomayor, the conservative majority has consigned women to secondclass citizenship. In overturning roe, the Supreme Court has a least a healthcare crisis across america. Make no mistake Womens Health and in some cases, their lives, are at risk. Today, the committee will examine the very real consequences of the unprecedented decision. We start with a video. [video] the Supreme Court has overturned roe v. Wade. Pregnancy laws can land people in prison. Pregnant people being criminalized for pregnancy outcomes. Data collected from fertility apps and google searches could be used to prosecute abortion. Black women and women of color are disproportionately criminalized. Some of the bans do have civi
First kind in americas history that the Supreme Court has revoked a constitutionally protected right. The first time. As a result, a womans personal decision to make her own Reproductive Health care choice is no longer protected or guaranteed by the constitution. In the words of justice kagan, sotomayor, the conservative majority has consigned women to secondclass citizenship. In overturning roe, the Supreme Court has a least a healthcare crisis across america. Make no mistake Womens Health and in some cases, their lives, are at risk. Today, the committee will examine the very real consequences of the unprecedented decision. We start with a video. [video] the Supreme Court has overturned roe v. Wade. Pregnancy laws can land people in prison. Pregnant people being criminalized for pregnancy outcomes. Data collected from fertility apps and google searches could be used to prosecute abortion. Black women and women of color are disproportionately criminalized. Some of the bans do have civi
First kind in americas history that the Supreme Court has revoked a constitutionally protected right. The first time. As a result, a womans personal decision to make her own Reproductive Health care choice is no longer protected or guaranteed by the constitution. In the words of justice kagan, sotomayor, the conservative majority has consigned women to secondclass citizenship. In overturning roe, the Supreme Court has a least a healthcare crisis across america. Make no mistake Womens Health and in some cases, their lives, are at risk. Today, the committee will examine the very real consequences of the unprecedented decision. We start with a video. [video] the Supreme Court has overturned roe v. Wade. Pregnancy laws can land people in prison. Pregnant people being criminalized for pregnancy outcomes. Data collected from fertility apps and Google Searches could be used to prosecute abortion. Black women and women of color are disproportionately criminalized. Some of the bans do have civi