Larry Bucshon: “With all due respect, a radical agenda is protecting an organization that dismembers body parts and sells them for…”

“With all due respect, a radical agenda is protecting an organization that dismembers body parts and sells them for profit. For the record, I am probably the only Member of this body to have operated on babies as young as 23 weeks' gestation. In fact, the smallest baby I operated on weighed only 650 grams. As a physician, I spent my career caring for patients regardless of their situations. So I take access to health care very seriously. I find it troubling that those on the other side, most of whom have never spent a day caring for patients, continue to mislead the American people about the facts of Planned Parenthood. Here are a few: By its own statistics, Planned Parenthood only treats 2 percent of the Nation's women for any reason. Planned Parenthood doesn't offer women some of the most basic primary care. It doesn't provide services like mammograms, cardiovascular blood tests, or bone mass measurements. Over the past 10 years, Planned Parenthood cut cancer screenings by half while it increased abortion services by 40 percent. Across the country, we have 13,000 federally qualified or rural health centers that can provide basic health services compared to only 700 Planned Parenthood facilities that really don't provide these services at all. Madam Speaker, taxpayers should not be forced to fund this organization when we have so many other alternatives.”