Political Quotes

“I want to thank my colleagues from Oklahoma and California for this exchange of views, and most particularly I want to thank my colleague from the State of Washington for the amendment that she has offered that would, in effect, remove or eliminate a harmful provision in the budget reconciliation bill, a provision that would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers of reproductive health services for women. Very importantly, it would also establish a fund to assist the Department of Justice in monitoring and combating violent opposition to women seeking access to lawful reproductive health services. We can have a broad and comprehensive debate on a great many of the subjects that are related to the amendment offered by Senator Murray, but the simple fact is that funding for Planned Parenthood helps with women's health care. It provides services such as cancer screening, birth control, and STI testing and treatment that simply are inaccessible and unavailable to those women anywhere else. For all the talk about alternatives to Planned Parenthood, the women who receive services through Planned Parenthood have nowhere else to go in so many instances.…”