US House of Representatives general discussion about the provisions of the Commission of fetal tissue for research has appeared surreptitiously recorded video interviews with members of the organization received a letter request.
They have written three companies identified Republicans in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and requests for information and briefings have been the supplier of human fetal tissue.
Committee lawmakers that anti-abortion activist group called the Center for Medical Progress by the video after the publication of the investigation said last month.
Family planning and negotiating prices for video miscarriage tissue designed to display those responsible for. Under federal law, it grants for research using human embryonic tissue, but can take advantage of the sales ban. Tissue can be compensated for the cost of managing it.
Hundreds of millions of women at the national level to provide health care, and family planning, which has denied the allegations ,. The organization also said that abortion constitutes only 3% of its work.
Cecile Richards, president of the Institute of Energy and Commerce interviews", and asked Melissa Farrell. Gatter identify and chairman of the organization's medical director. Ginde, vice president and medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains as well as the industry. And Farrell family planning director of research for the Gulf Coast locations.
"As you know, John, made the last several videos, the person who purchased the fetal tissue is expressed in the statement," the Commission said in the letter.
"We are studying whether the statement is consistent with the existing regulations ...," the team leader, Representative Fred Upton, said the letter signed by others.
A message of family planning officers and will continue to cooperate fully with the committee...
Medical researchers also collect and sell information on the message received, or the value of tissues, including the donation went to three companies to provide fetal tissue.
The company developed biological resources, and the company; Labs Novogenix, and StemExpress. And three are in the state of California. Nothing requests for comment from Reuters.
Energy and Commerce video WAKE investigation for family planning in one of at least three congressional committees. Some conservative Republicans to cut off federal funds for family planning.