Political Quotes

“I rise in opposition to the Greenwood amendment and support for the Livingston-Smith amendment. Mr. Chairman, I listened as an earlier speaker said that he could not imagine that 25 years ago we would picture this happening. I cannot imagine that it takes 25 years of failure before we decide to fix the problem. We all know the abortion rate and the illegitimacy rate have increased. Do we need to go another 5 years of failure before we fix it or 10 or 20 years? We also had an earlier speaker say that title X provides basic medical services. It provides some services. It does not provide the kind of services that the maternal and child health block grants will. It does not provide the kind of programs that the community and migrant health centers are all about. I think it is important to note this does not make family planning go away. Family planning is covered under the maternal and child health block grant, Medicaid, social services block grants and State moneys. I wanted to emphasize that this change does set a priority. It sets a priority, for example, with the community and migrant health centers to provide physician care, dental care, hearing care, prenatal care, and, yes, family planning services.”