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When its first tactic – an injunction – failed, StemExpress (now infamous for brokering baby body parts) turned to warning employees to shut up.<\/p>\n

Citing a proprietary information agreement, StemExpress sent the letter to some former employees in an effort to threaten them to keep their mouths closed, as one website reports<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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In part, Kevin Cooksy, Esq., Vice President of Corporate Development and Legal Affairs, writes how StemExpress is watching the activity\u00a0of former employees:<\/p>\n

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\u201cStemExpress and its outside counsel are monitoring the media and other communications for this very sort of activity,\u201d the letter says. \u201cTo avoid potential legal action, I encourage you to immediately refrain from any future public commentary regarding StemExpress and\/or disclosure of StemExpress confidential information of any nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The issue of proprietary agreements<\/a> is legitimate, as many companies deal with trade secrets, licenses or research and have a right to expect an employee will not divulge trade secrets. StemExpress seems less interested in letting its scientific secrets out as it does its illegal ones. And proprietary agreements are meant to protect an employer from betrayal and insider spies, not from prosecution.<\/p>\n

StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer has already tried to sue to stop information from being released. After losing that suit,<\/a> the Center for Medical Progress<\/a> released the eighth video<\/a> which features both Dyer and the intimidation-letter signatory Kevin Cooksy. CMP reported on the video:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat about intact specimens?\u201d asks one of the actors. \u201cOh yeah, I mean if you have intact cases, which we\u2019ve done a lot, we sometimes ship those back to our lab in its entirety,\u201d replies Dyer. \u201cCase\u201d is the clinical term for an abortion procedure. A\u00a0Late-Term Abortion<\/a>\u201cintact case\u201d refers to an intact abortion with a whole fetus. \u201cThe entire case?\u201d asks an actor. \u201cYeah, yeah,\u201d says Dyer. \u201cThe procurement for us, I mean it can go really sideways, depending on the facility, and then our samples are destroyed,\u201d she explains past botched fetal dissections, \u201cso we started bringing them back even to manage it from a procurement expert standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feticidal chemicals like digoxin cannot be used to kill the fetus in a tissue procurement case, so a fetus delivered intact for organ harvesting is likely to be a born-alive infant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would make your lab happy?\u201d asks one of the actors. \u201cAnother 50 livers a week,\u201d says Dyer. \u201cWe\u2019re working with almost like triple digit number clinics,\u201d Dyer explains.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After former procurement technician Holly O’Donnell went on the record <\/a>reporting what StemExpress does, it seems unsurprising that the company would now be trying to do as much damage control as possible. But proprietary agreement or not, free speech about a person’s work conditions is still allowed. If babies are born alive and killed so StemExpress can sell 50 more livers a week to labs, there isn’t a proprietary agreement on the planet that can protect them from prosecution. And that’s probably what they are afraid will happen.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it’s ironic that they are spending energy trying to monitor former employees and quiet them when the fact is, Dyer herself appears on camera saying enough to indict herself anyway.<\/p>\n

Her legal counsel might be better utilized preparing her own defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When its first tactic – an injunction – failed, StemExpress (now infamous for brokering baby body parts) turned to warning employees to shut up. 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