[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 26 (Thursday, March 9, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H762]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




DR. JONES, A MODERN DAY DR. MENGELA WHEN IT COMES TO SELLING BABY BODY 
                                 PARTS

  (Mr. TANCREDO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TANCREDO. Mr. Speaker, last night I watched in amazement as the 
owner of a company, Opening Lines, made it known in a 20/20 undercover 
investigation that his company is in the business of selling fetal 
tissue for profit.
  When asked by the actor posing as a potential investor how much they 
could make from selling body parts, Dr. Miles Jones, the owner of 
Opening Lines and a pathologist, stated, ``It is market force. It is 
whatever it can go for.''
  He went on to say that a single fetus could make his company up to 
$2,500.
  Mr. Speaker, this is in blatant defiance of the law passed in 1993 
under the NIH Reauthorization Act, namely that baby body parts cannot 
be sold for valuable consideration.
  The Hippocratic Oath has gone out the window and been replaced by 
greed.
  Dr. Jones went on further to state, over drinks and dinner at a fine 
restaurant, that his dream job would be to operate down in Mexico where 
laws are less stringent and where he could set up a system reminiscent 
of an assembly line.
  This makes me sick. I am grateful that the Subcommittee on Health and 
Environment is holding a hearing today, in fact, to look into this 
barbaric issue. It is time that Congress gets off the sidelines, sheds 
the light of day on people like Dr. Jones, or should I say a modern day 
Dr. Mengela.

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