Lois Frankel: “My, my, my, here we go again, the anti- abortion obsession turned into more cruel ridiculousness. How interesting that…”

“My, my, my, here we go again, the anti- abortion obsession turned into more cruel ridiculousness. How interesting that my Republican colleagues, whose motto is ``less government,'' try at every opportunity to interfere with a woman's most personal decision whether or not to bring a child into the world. But this amendment does more than that. It is aimed at eviscerating Planned Parenthood and like clinics, cutting off access to contraception and lifesaving healthcare to millions of Americans. Women and the people they trust--not politicians--must be in charge of women's reproductive destinies, which means that women must have access to full healthcare, because we will not go back to the days of coat hanger medicine. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to defeat this very, very bad, bad, bad, bad, very bad amendment. {time} 1645 Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chair, let me just repeat: Over two-thirds of the patients who seek care at Title X clinics are in a household that is at or below the poverty level. Many of these patients are uninsured and underinsured. We are looking at the opportunity for healthcare screenings in 4,000 clinics around this country, which is what we want to do. That is not happening because of some ideological assault on family planning, again, someone's personal beliefs being foisted on millions of people around the country. That is not the job we came here to do.…”