[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 22 (Friday, February 11, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H685-H686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS
(Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for
1 minute.)
Mrs. MALONEY. Madam Speaker, the new Republican proposal to eliminate
all funding for the many services provided by organizations such as
Planned Parenthood are not merely anti-choice, they are also anti-
health, anti-woman, and anti-poor.
The Republican proposal would eliminate the title X family planning
which gives millions of American women access to primary and preventive
health care. These budget cuts would deny crucial health services and
cancer screening just to women. Their proposal would set up
insurmountable cost barriers to family planning, just for the poor.
Their vision of smaller government would expand the government's
power
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over a women's choices. It is wrong, it is shortsighted, and it is
unjust.
Let's turn to the business of creating jobs and economic opportunity
and away from the business of ruling other people's lives.
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