Dems try to halt House GOP fetal tissue hearings

Dems try to halt House GOP fetal tissue hearings

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats suggested on Wednesday that a special House panel investigating Planned Parenthood could be complicit in future assaults or even murders of abortion providers at the Republican-led committee's first hearing on the ethics of fetal tissue research.

The investigative panel was created last year following conservative furor over secretly recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing how they sometimes supply fetal tissue for medical research. In February, the panel subpoenaed documents from groups that GOP lawmakers said were withholding information. Those include abortion providers and a company that supplies fetal tissue from abortion clinics to researchers.

Baker rules out voting for Trump for president in November
Massachusetts

Baker rules out voting for Trump for president in November

State House News Service

BOSTON – After New York businessman Donald Trump rolled to a resounding victory in the Massachusetts Republican presidential primary Tuesday night, Gov. Charlie Baker said he's not willing to concede the inevitability of Trump's rise to the GOP nomination, and won't vote for Trump in November if it comes to pass.

"I said I wasn't going to vote for Donald Trump yesterday and I didn't, and I don't plan to vote for him in November, but I'm not willing to concede with 35 states to go that he going to be the Republican nominee," Baker told reporters after attending an elementary school assembly in North Andover to celebrate Dr. Seuss and reading.

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