The investigation over Planned Parenthood supplying fetal tissue for medical research is officially in full swing—and Democrats are already crying “witch hunt” over measures introduced at the March 2 committee hearing.
GOP members of the House at the panel have requested the names of medical researchers involved in the kerfuffle, which was exposed en masse to the American public last year when video footage of a meeting about Planned Parenthood’s involvement went viral. The subpoenaed documents currently in discussion were demanded after GOP lawmakers claimed information necessary for the House committee was being withheld.
The request has sparked voluminous criticism from Democrat Members, who insist that including these names would put the lives of medical researchers in danger if they were to be made public—or, as Representative Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York put it, make Members of the House possibly “complicit” in any harm, even murder, that could hypothetically befall the researchers.