Warren Hern, the abortion doctor currently being investigated by a congressional panel on “infant lives,” says he won’t comply with the .
Hern wrote Wednesday in a response to the panel that he feels subjected to a “witch hunt” and called Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, who is chairing the investigation, a “shameless coward.”
Blackburn, a member of the transition team for President-elect Donald Trump, sent Hern — one of the country’s few late-term abortion providers — informing him that he is the subject of an investigation into “the practices of second and third trimester abortionists.”
Blackburn asked Hern to provide information on care for an “infant born alive” and whether that’s ever happened at his clinic, what happened to the infant afterward, and the names of any people who cared for the infant. She also sought any death certificates or referrals to funeral homes related to the infant.
The congresswoman’s letter to Hern mentioned “instructions” for how the doctor should go about responding to the panel’s request for documents, and asked that he provide them by Nov. 21.
