[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14491-14492]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON WOMEN'S HEALTH

  (Mr. LABRADOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LABRADOR. Mr. Speaker, I want to make it clear that this is not 
simply an issue of whether Planned Parenthood broke the law by selling 
fetal body parts obtained through abortions.
  The real tragedy we are confronted with today is that human beings 
have been reduced to mere commodities in this practice, and Federal 
dollars are contributing to it.
  I do not want to contribute to a system that profits from someone's 
fate nor do I want to subject millions of taxpayers to supporting this 
violation of life.
  It is often a temptation to boil this argument down to medical terms 
and ignore the real losses our Nation faces when we choose to reject 
someone before he or she has been given the chance to live.
  For this reason, I do not support funding Planned Parenthood and its 
tragic influence on our Nation's future.
  Defunding Planned Parenthood will have no effect on women's health. 
In the State of Idaho alone, there are 76 federally qualified health 
centers, and only 3 Planned Parenthood facilities. Women can and will 
receive health care in these facilities.

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