Jackie Speier: “The Kabuki dance is almost over, and like many of you, I'm wondering if we have lost our senses. By all reports by…”

“The Kabuki dance is almost over, and like many of you, I'm wondering if we have lost our senses. By all reports by Leader Reid and Speaker Boehner, they are very close. It's not about money. Do you know what it's about? It's about contraceptive pills. I can't believe that we are sitting here today, about to shut down the government, over contraceptive pills--because that's what it's all about. {time} 1120 It's all about defunding one organization, Planned Parenthood, that provides explicitly and only services around contraceptive pills, breast cancer screenings, STD screenings, and cervical cancer screenings. Not one dime goes for abortion services. In fact, the services provided under family planning have to be excluded completely. Different locations, different service providers, different staff. And on top of it, it's all audited. So not one dime for abortions. This is only for family planning services. So in the end we're going to go to the American people and say, yes, we shut down the government, we told all our men and women serving in faraway places, trying to keep the world free, and keep it free for us, and keep terrorists at bay, we are going to tell them, no, you are not going to get paid for a while because we didn't want to fund contraceptive pills for women who are poor in this country. The women who access Planned Parenthood, and one in five women accesses Planned Parenthood at some time in her life, the average income is $33,000 a year.…”