[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 18, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3404]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TITLE X AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD

  (Mr. BANKS of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BANKS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of 
changes to title X family planning funds.
  Currently, abortion providers like Planned Parenthood are eligible to 
receive these title X funds, but abortion is not family planning; it is 
family ending. It ends the lives of innocent children. It is an affront 
to the very definition of family.
  Title X is Planned Parenthood's second largest funding stream, 
providing around $80 million a year. America's largest abortion 
provider, which ends over 321,000 lives each year, should never receive 
a single dime of taxpayer dollars.
  I strongly support efforts to turn off the title X funding stream for 
Planned Parenthood, and urge the Department of Health and Human 
Services to issue new regulations for the title X program that will 
stop funding for programs that include abortion.
  Mr. Speaker, there are much better and life-affirming options than 
allowing Planned Parenthood access to taxpayer dollars.

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