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Robert Dornan: Mr. Chairman, Planned Parenthood is what we are debating here tonight. Money is fungible, and title X funding must be…

On the recordAugust 2, 1995
Mr. Chairman, Planned Parenthood is what we are debating here tonight. Money is fungible, and title X funding must be abolished. It has been nothing but an annual subsidy for the largest abortion provider on the plant Earth with the sole exception of the Chinese oppressive communist government. They promote abortion, they lobby for abortion, and they litigate about abortion. How many Members saw the movie, TV movie, this last few months glorifying Margaret Sanger, the very first president of Planned Parenthood, still praised by its rank and file members? A young talented actress, Dana Delaney, Irish, one time I guess practicing Catholic, played her in this glorification piece. Here is a few Sanger quotes, and I will fade out. She believed that Negroes, as she used the term, and Southern Europeans were mentally inferior to native born Americans. She said the Jewish were feebleminded, human weeds, and a menace to society. The poor were sinister forces of the hordes of irresponsibility and imbecility. She argued that organized attempts to help the poor were the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Debating the funding and influence of Planned Parenthood.

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