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Editorial: House panel on Planned Parenthood videos exceeds its scope

Editorial: House panel on Planned Parenthood videos exceeds its scope

Usually the worst you can say about a Congressional committee is that its hearings provide a soapbox for grandstanding, with more testimony coming from committee members than the witnesses called to testify.

But the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, called last year to investigate allegations that Planned Parenthood was selling fetal tissue for medical research, now is issuing subpoenas to those involved in that research and demanding information that includes the names of researchers, lab technicians, graduate students and administrative personnel, potentially violating their privacy and putting their safety at risk.

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