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PLANNED PARENTHOOD EXPOSED: EXAMINING THE HORRIFIC ABORTION PRACTICES AT THE NATION’S LARGEST ABORTION PROVIDER HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 Serial No. 114–41 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://judiciary.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 96–052 PDF WASHINGTON : 2015 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia, Chairman F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan Wisconsin JERROLD NADLER, New York LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas ZOE LOFGREN, California STEVE CHABOT, Ohio SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas DARRELL E. ISSA, California STEVE COHEN, Tennessee J. RANDY FORBES, Virginia HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR., STEVE KING, Iowa Georgia TRENT FRANKS, Arizona PEDRO R. PIERLUISI, Puerto Rico LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas JUDY CHU, California JIM JORDAN, Ohio TED DEUTCH, Florida TED POE, Texas LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Illinois JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah KAREN BASS, California TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania CEDRIC RICHMOND, Louisiana TREY GOWDY, South Carolina SUZAN DelBENE, Washington RAU´ L LABRADOR, Idaho HAKEEM JEFFRIES, New York BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Texas DAVID N. CICILLINE, Rhode Island DOUG COLLINS, Georgia SCOTT PETERS, California RON DeSANTIS, Florida MIMI WALTERS, California KEN BUCK, Colorado JOHN RATCLIFFE, Texas DAVE TROTT, Michigan MIKE BISHOP, Michigan SHELLEY HUSBAND, Chief of Staff & General Counsel PERRY APELBAUM, Minority Staff Director & Chief Counsel (II) C O N T E N T S SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 Page OPENING STATEMENTS The Honorable Bob Goodlatte, a Representative in Congress from the State of Virginia, and Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary ................................. 1 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan, and Ranking Member, Committee on the Judiciary ......... 3 The Honorable Trent Franks, a Representative in Congress from the State of Arizona, and Member, Committee on the Judiciary ..................................... 4 The Honorable Steve Cohen, a Representative in Congress from the State of Tennessee, and Member, Committee on the Judiciary ................................. 6 WITNESSES Gianna Jessen, Abortion Survivor and Pro-Life Advocate and Speaker, Frank- lin, TN Oral Testimony ..................................................................................................... 13 Prepared Statement ............................................................................................. 15 James Bopp, Jr., General Counsel, National Right to Life, Washington, DC Oral Testimony ..................................................................................................... 21 Prepared Statement ............................................................................................. 23 Priscilla J. Smith, Associate Research Scholar in Law, Senior Fellow and Director, Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, Information Soci- ety Project, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT Oral Testimony ..................................................................................................... 44 Prepared Statement ............................................................................................. 46 Melissa Ohden, Abortion Survivor, and Founder, Abortion Survivors Network, Gladstone, MO Oral Testimony ..................................................................................................... 58 Prepared Statement ............................................................................................. 60 LETTERS, STATEMENTS, ETC., SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING Material submitted by the Honorable Steve Cohen, a Representative in Con- gress from the State of Tennessee, and Member, Committee on the Judici- ary ......................................................................................................................... 8 Material submitted by the Honorable Bob Goodlatte, a Representative in Congress from the State of Virginia, and Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary ............................................................................................................... 67 Material submitted by the Honorable John Conyers, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan, and Ranking Member, Committee on the Judiciary ................................................................................................... 83 Material submitted by the Honorable Jerrold Nadler, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York, and Member, Committee on the Judiciary ............................................................................................................... 101 Material submitted by the Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, and Member, Committee on the Judiciary ............................................................................................................... 110 Material submitted by the Honorable Judy Chu, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, and Member, Committee on the Judiciary ........ 162 (III) IV Page Material submitted by the Honorable Suzan DelBene, a Representative in Congress from the State of Washington, and Member, Committee on the Judiciary ............................................................................................................... 184 Material submitted by the Honorable Zoe Lofgren, a Representative in Con- gress from the State of California, and Member, Committee on the Judici- ary ......................................................................................................................... 192 Prepared Statement of the Honorable Doug Collins, a Representative in Con- gress from the State of Georgia, and Member, Committee on the Judiciary .. 203 Additional Material submitted by the Honorable Zoe Lofgren, a Representa- tive in Congress from the State of California, and Member, Committee on the Judiciary ................................................................................................... 209 APPENDIX MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING RECORD Material submitted by the Honorable John Conyers, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan, and Ranking Member, Committee on the Judiciary ................................................................................................... 212 Material submitted by the Honorable Bruce Poliquin, a Representative in Congress from the State of Maine ...................................................................... 216 OFFICIAL HEARING RECORD UNPRINTED MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING RECORD Material submitted by the Honorable Mike Bishop, a Representative in Con- gress from the State of Michigan, and Member, Committee on the Judiciary (see Rep. Mike Bishop Submissions at link below) ............................................ 190 http://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=103920 PLANNED PARENTHOOD EXPOSED: EXAM- INING THE HORRIFIC ABORTION PRAC- TICES AT THE NATION’S LARGEST ABOR- TION PROVIDER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY Washington, DC. The Committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:39 a.m., in room 2141, Rayburn Office Building, the Honorable Bob Goodlatte (Chairman of the Committee) presiding. Present: Representatives Goodlatte, Sensenbrenner, Chabot, Issa, Forbes, King, Franks, Gohmert, Jordan, Poe, Gowdy, Labrador, Farenthold, Collins, DeSantis, Walters, Buck, Ratcliffe, Trott, Bishop, Conyers, Nadler, Lofgren, Jackson Lee, Cohen, Johnson, Chu, Deutch, Gutierrez, DelBene, Cicilline, and Peters. Staff present: (Majority) Shelley Husband, Chief of Staff & Gen- eral Counsel; Branden Ritchie, Depuyt Chief of Staff & Chief Coun- sel; Allison Halataei, Parliamentarian & General Counsel; Paul Taylor, Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice; John Coleman, Counsel, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice; Kelsey Williams, Clerk; (Minority) Perry Apel- baum, Staff Director & Chief Counsel; Danielle Brown, Parliamen- tarian and Chief Legislative Counsel; James Park, Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice; and Veronica Eligan, Professional Staff Member. Mr. GOODLATTE. Good morning. The Judiciary Committee will come to order, and without objection the Chair is authorized to de- clare recesses of the Committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this morning’s hearing on Planned Par- enthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider. And I will begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Recently the Nation’s attention has been drawn to a series of un- dercover videos recorded by members of a group called The Center for Medical Progress. These videos contained discussions with rep- resentatives of the abortion providing organization, Planned Par- enthood, regarding the exchange of money for the body parts of un- born children to be used in research. Any discussion of abortion is inherently difficult as it is unques- tionably the taking of a human life. That discussion becomes even (1) 2 more difficult when it turns to the monetary value of the body parts of more developed unborn children, and to the prospect of ex- posing

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