WASHINGTON—The first hearing of the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives on Wednesday revealed a deep partisan divide between pro-abortion lawmakers claiming Congress has better things to do and pro-life House members concerned about the morality of an industry harvesting baby body parts from abortions.

Idaho has joined two other states considering legislation to ban donations of aborted fetal tissue and close the donation-for-reimbursement loophole used by Planned Parenthood.

The Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee voted along party lines Friday to introduce the Idaho Unborn Infants Dignity Act, which would criminalize donating fetal tissue from abortions. It also prohibits research centers from conducting experiments using aborted fetal tissue, a ban under consideration in three other states.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday signed two bills defunding Planned Parenthood, measures designed to eliminate a total of $8 million in taxpayer funds from reaching the abortion giant. But Wisconsin’s pro-life win might not last long. Hit with legal injunctions, most of the other eight states that have passed Planned Parenthood defunding  laws have been unable to enforce them.

WASHINGTON—The House Select Panel on Infant Lives announced this morning it will issue subpoenas to several organizations with ties to the fetal tissue industry after they refused to provide requested information.

“Without these subpoenas, the American people and the House itself would be left to speculate about what is going on in the fetal tissue industry,” said panel chairwoman Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., in a statement. “We cannot leave questions unanswered.”

Ohio Gov. John Kasich is likely to sign a bill to defund Planned Parenthood after the state House approved the measure Wednesday. Critics of Kasich, a GOP presidential contender, accuse him of limiting low-income women’s access to healthcare. But a Kasich spokesman said the governor advocates for women’s health in ways that don’t involve support for abortion businesses.

Two unlikely advocates, both pro-abortion attorneys, called the indictment of pro-life activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt “deeply disturbing” and a potential threat to the “vital” work of undercover journalists and activists.

The National Abortion Federation (NAF) encourages and supports the illegal practice of fetal tissue sales, according to the latest video released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). CMP published the video as it does battle in court over footage taken at annual NAF meetings in 2014 and 2015. NAF is trying to permanently enjoin the pro-life organization from releasing the footage.