Democrats Compare GOP Probe Of Medical Organizations To McCarthyism

[riversedge]

Democrats Compare GOP Probe Of Medical Organizations To McCarthyism

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-fetal-tissue-research_us_56d71ddee4b0871f60ed7512?utm_hp_ref=politics
Republicans have subpoenaed the names of doctors, researchers and medical students involved in abortion and fetal tissue research.


03/02/2016 06:50 pm ET


Samantha Lachman


WASHINGTON -- The special House committee investigating abortion providers got off to a contentious start Wednesday as Democrats on the panel objected to the GOP’s subpoenas of the names of doctors, medical students and researchers involved in performing abortions or conducting fetal tissue research.

The special committee, now called the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, was convened last year by Republicans following the release of a series of undercover videos by anti-abortion activists showing Planned Parenthood staff discussing the donation of fetal tissue for research.

Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.,) said the sting videos "revealed that something very troubling is going on related to fetal tissue and research."

"There is something going on, something that deserves investigating and that demands our best moral and ethical thinking," Blackburn said. She argued that Wednesday's hearing was about bioethics and not about "election year politics."

Republicans and the Center for Medical Progress, which made the videos, claim that Planned Parenthood was illegally profiting from the transfer of the tissue, which Planned Parenthood has denied. Multiple congressional committees and states have investigated the matter and found no evidence of wrongdoing.

The founder of the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress, David Daleiden, was indicted by a Texas grand jury in January after the jury cleared Planned Parenthood. ....................................

[katmondoo]

1. The Republicans are always preaching for small government

and want the government out of their lives, however they have no problem controlling woman's lives and health with all sorts of draconian laws to make woman's lives as miserable as they can.

[DetlefK]

2. "Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives"?

So... will they investigate the correlation between poverty and child-mortality?

How about the relation between health-insurance and the health of children?

Food-stamps and the health of children?

Flint-water and the mental development of children?

[dhill926]

3. you nailed it...

[Baobab]

5. No, they don't think like that.. They attack the victims or messengers. Its their fault since they c

Guess what the response is to information like the following:

http://press.endocrine.org/doi/10.1210/jc.2014-4324

"Results:

Expert panels achieved consensus at least for probable (>20%) EDC causation for IQ loss and associated intellectual disability, autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, childhood obesity, adult obesity, adult diabetes, cryptorchidism, male infertility, and mortality associated with reduced testosterone. Accounting for probability of causation and using the midpoint of each range for probability of causation, Monte Carlo simulations produced a median cost of €157 billion (or $209 billion, corresponding to 1.23% of EU gross domestic product) annually across 1000 simulations. Notably, using the lowest end of the probability range for each relationship in the Monte Carlo simulations produced a median range of €109 billion that differed modestly from base case probability inputs.


Conclusions:

EDC exposures in the EU are likely to contribute substantially to disease and dysfunction across the life course with costs in the hundreds of billions of Euros per year. These estimates represent only those EDCs with the highest probability of causation; a broader analysis would have produced greater estimates of burden of disease and costs.


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What is the reaction?

This!

http://www.ciel.org/Publications/ToxicPartnership_Mar2014.pdf

Freeze progress in regulating toxic chemicals;

Create an industry bypass around democracy;

Give commercial interests and trade precedence over the protection of human health and the environment;

Stifle innovation in safer chemicals; and

Impede global action on toxic chemicals.


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Also: This- "Kill the Messenger": Science !

http://www.eua.be/activities-services/news/newsitem/15-02-05/EUA_Council_statement_on_TTIP_and_TISA.aspx

also (older)

http://www.eua.be/Libraries/higher-education/GATS_en.pdf?sfvrsn=0

[Baobab]

4. The real reason is, they want people to die sooner. Also, the right makes TONS of money on adoptions

So anything that they feel cheats them of adoptable babies (like single payer health care that lets young mothers keep their children by eliminating bills when people get sick) is targeted.

BTW, single payer has to be free, otherwise they would need to add more payers - like crappy plans that punished people who didnt pay the most with bad health care.

The minute you add a single competitor who charges money, even just one insurance plan or one charter school, then the WTO makes a country privatize the whole service sector.