"defunding Planned Parenthood is very likely to cause exactly the thing that the opponents of Planned Parenthood claim they do not want, and that is more abortion."
"the cruel irony is that an effort to defund Planned Parenthood, which is already prohibited from using any Federal funds to provide abortion services, means the other 97 percent of their services that..."
"I want to associate myself with the remarks of Congressman Deutch and Congressman Gutierrez."
"What this really is, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, is creating an opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood, and to make it more difficult for women to have access to full reproductive hea..."
"It is incredibly disappointing to have our first hearing in the Judiciary Committee, another effort to make it more difficult for women in America to access high-quality healthcare."
"To me it was immoral. I do not know if it is illegal, Ms. Smith, but it was immoral what I was seeing on that video."
"We are talking about human life. We are talking about people who have a God-given potential to be the best that they can be and to be everything that they can be."
"The central question of whether women have a constitutional right to make decisions regarding their own reproductive healthcare. That is also a settled question of law."
"There has been a lot of discussion about late term abortion, which, of course, is prohibited under Federal law."
"Thank you to the witnesses not only for being here today but for the ongoing conversations. And I want to particularly thank the administration for really making sure that Members have all the informa..."
"The objective of these negotiations, at least as presented to me, was always preventing a nuclear Iran."