Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has referred Planned Parenthood to the FBI and the Department of Justice for investigation and possible prosecution.
Following the videos release in 2015 from the Center for Medical Progress, which exposed the abortion mill as engaging not only in the unlawful practice of murdering the unborn, but then selling the organs and body parts of those they murdered, Grassley noted in a referral letter, “he facts uncovered raise a reasonable suspicion that these organizations, and/or individuals employed by them, may have engaged in a conspiracy to violate the fetal tissue law.”
On Tuesday, Grassley wrote to both FBI director James Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch:
In the summer of 2015, the Senate Judiciary Committee began an inquiry into paid fetal tissue transfers involving Planned Parenthood. The Committee has since obtained and reviewed more than 20,000 pages of information from the organizations involved, and engaged in detailed discussions with the attorneys for those organizations. The investigation has culminated in a Majority Staff Report to the Committee. That report is attached for your review.
The report documents the failure of the Department of Justice, across multiple administrations, to enforce the law that bans the buying or selling of human fetal tissue (42 U.S.C. § 289g-2) with even a single prosecution. It also documents substantial evidence suggesting that the specific entities involved in the recent controversy, and/or individuals employed by those entities, may have violated that law. Moreover, that evidence is contained entirely in those entities’ own records, which were voluntarily provided to the Committee and are detailed in the report.
Grassley then names the following as those who engaged in “paid fetal tissue practices” to both departments:
- StemExpress, LLC;
- Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc.
- Novogenix Laboratories, LLC
- Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
- Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
- Planned Parenthood Northern California
- Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest
Via Tim Brown