Doc Who Advertises Birth Tourism Services Takes 5th During Congressional Testimony
EXCERPT:
GILL: “Is it true that your business Have My Baby in Miami marketed itself to and facilitated the entry of foreign nationals seeking to come to the United States to give birth and obtain birthright citizenship for their children?”
LORENTZ: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question on the grounds that a truthful answer may tend to incriminate me. And I invoke my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States.”
GILL: “OK. Witness invokes his Fifth Amendment right. I’ve got your website right here that you’D spent quite a bit of time marketing, which suggests that you were in fact facilitating the entry of foreign nationals so that they could give birth and obtain citizenship for their children. This is Have My Baby in Miami’s website. On the front page of it, the last line of the commentary states, ‘Now the dream of having a child in the United States is closer to reality than you ever imagined.’ Is this your website, Dr. Lorentz?”
LORENTZ: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question on the grounds that a truthful answer may incriminate me. And I invoke the rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States.”




