Chris Smith: “I thank my good friend for her leadership and her very eloquent remarks. My friend from New York talked about a narrow…”

“I thank my good friend for her leadership and her very eloquent remarks. My friend from New York talked about a narrow agenda and a narrow perspective. More than 60 percent of every poll, in the case of one poll, 69 percent of all women in the United States of America say they do not want their funds being used to subsidize abortion on demand. Let me remind my colleagues that this legislation accomplishes three goals: One, it makes the Hyde amendment and other current abortion funding prohibitions permanent. We just reauthorized all of those riders just a few weeks ago. This just makes them permanent; Ensures that the Affordable Care Act faithfully conforms to the Hyde amendment, as promised by the President of the United States; And provides full disclosure, transparency, and prominent display that is absolutely lacking right now of the extent to which any health insurance plan on the exchange funds abortion. Madam Speaker, the President of the United States stood about 10 feet from where I am standing right now back in September of 2009 and told a joint session of Congress: Under our plan, no Federal dollars will be used to fund abortion. The executive order that was issued in March of 2010 said, and I quote, that the Affordable Care Act ``maintains current Hyde amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to newly created health insurance exchanges.'' Madam Speaker, that is simply not true. It is absolutely not true.…”