[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14448]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            PROTECTING LIFE BY DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from West 
Virginia (Mr. Jenkins) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, like the majority of the 
American people, I was disgusted and angered by the recent videos 
showing Planned Parenthood officials apparently willing to sell the 
tissues and organs of aborted babies. That is right; I said ``babies,'' 
not a glob of tissue as some would suggest.
  I have always been unapologetically pro-life, and the mere thought of 
such horrific actions is beyond words. That is why I come to the floor 
today to urge my colleagues to support the Defund Planned Parenthood 
Act, which will cut all Federal funding for Planned Parenthood until 
the House conducts a complete and full investigation into the 
organization's abortion practices.
  I am also pleased that this legislation will reallocate Federal funds 
currently being used to fund Planned Parenthood's abortion services to 
community health centers and other clinics that help provide 
preventative care to women without performing abortions.
  Women's health is extremely important, and it is my belief that the 
funding currently being used to fund Planned Parenthood's abortion 
agenda will be better used by helping our local clinics provide vital 
women's health services without promoting the malicious practice of 
abortion.
  Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the majority of my constituents in the 
Third Congressional District of West Virginia want to see a culture of 
life promoted in Washington, not a culture of barbarity and lack of 
respect of life.
  My constituents deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are going 
to organizations that represent their values and beliefs, not to 
organizations that are determined to push their own agenda that goes 
against the will of the American people.
  I urge my colleagues to support the passage of Defund Planned 
Parenthood Act of 2015 and to promote the sanctity of life and listen 
to the American people and my constituents when they say they have had 
enough of their hard-earned tax dollars being spent to promote Planned 
Parenthood's pro-abortion agenda.

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