Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of a woman's right to choose, women's health, and Planned Parenthood. You see, before I ran for Congress, I spent 9 years as an emergency medicine physician. A few years ago, a 55-year-old woman came into my emergency room with a gynecological hemorrhage. After we stopped the bleeding in the ER, we admitted her for diagnosis and treatment. Sadly, as I suspected, she had advanced cervical cancer, and 5 months later, she died, leaving her family behind. Until recently, cervical cancer was the leading cause of cancer deaths for women in the United States. However, over the past 40 years, we have dramatically reduced the number of deaths from cervical cancer. According to the CDC, ``This decline largely is the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical pre-cancer before it turns into cancer.'' Madam Speaker, that is what is at stake in this debate. In fact, 97 percent of Planned Parenthood's services are not abortion related. Planned Parenthood provides many health and wellness services, including STI testing, contraceptives, and cancer screenings to over 2 million women and men each year. Opponents of Planned Parenthood's want to turn this into a debate about abortion, but it is not. Let's be clear. Defunding Planned Parenthood won't reduce the number of abortions at all. This is a debate about cervical cancer. This is a debate about breast cancer.…”