Chris Smith: “I thank the gentlewoman for her extraordinary leadership on the life issue. Madam Speaker, subsidized by over $500…”

“I thank the gentlewoman for her extraordinary leadership on the life issue. Madam Speaker, subsidized by over $500 million taxpayer dollars each year, Planned Parenthood dismembers or chemically poisons a baby to death every 2 minutes, killing over 7 million innocent children since 1973. Undercover videos in 2015 exposed, in numbing candor, several high- level Planned Parenthood leaders nonchalantly talking about procuring children's organs for a price. They describe altering gruesome dismemberment procedures to preserve intact livers, hearts, and lungs from freshly killed babies. All of this begs the question, Madam Speaker, why are U.S. taxpayers giving half a billion dollars each year to Planned Parenthood? H.J. Res. 43 simply allows States to redirect funds away from abortion clinics and does not reduce funding for title X by so much as a penny. Those funds are just redirected to other health clinics that provide women's health care and don't engage in abortion. In mid-December, on his way out the door, former President Obama finalized a rule that coerces States to fund Planned Parenthood with their title X money. Prior to the Obama rule, States had chosen, five of them, to award title X funds to non-Planned Parenthood entities. These five States, Tennessee, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Ohio, account for nearly $16 million in annual title X funding and serve over 279,000 individuals a year. These five States redirected those funds to other health clinics.…”