Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my outrage over the recent disclosures of Planned Parenthood's deliberate efforts to harvest tissue from aborted babies. The practices described by Planned Parenthood officials on these videos are simply despicable, unspeakable, and barbaric. The lighthearted tone of Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood, as she talked about how much fetal tissue parts were worth while eating salad and drinking wine only adds words of insult to this atrocity. A video released just today shows Dr. Mary Gatter, another high- ranking Planned Parenthood official, again discussing fetal tissue payments. Gatter describes using a less crunchy technique to yield as much and many body parts as possible for more money to buy herself a Lamborghini. This is inhumane. As a health provider myself, I condemn it in the strongest terms. I hope the relevant medical licensing boards in their States disqualify her and Dr. Nucatola from ever practicing medicine again. It is a national disgrace that taxpayer dollars account for 41 percent of Planned Parenthood's revenue and that over the past 3 years the organization has received $1.2 billion in funding from Medicaid. All of this for an organization that performs more than 300,000 abortions a year.…”