[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15823]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PLANNED PARENTHOOD HELPS THE MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED

  (Mr. KENNEDY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, early detection of breast cancer can be the 
difference between a life saved and a life lost, but too often women 
are forced to forgo critical screenings because of lack of access to 
affordable preventative care. By opening their doors to so many 
medically underserved communities, Planned Parenthood is working to 
address those gaps.
  As this is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we should be applauding the 
doctors and nurses who work tirelessly to detect breast cancer at its 
earliest stages. We should be thanking them for providing 500,000 
breast exams every single year, helping to identify cancer and other 
serious illness in nearly 90,000 women.
  We should be replicating their efforts to educate women on the 
warning signs and symptoms of breast cancer. But, instead, my 
Republican colleagues are focused on creating a politically motivated 
select committee with the ultimate goal of defunding the organization.
  It is time to move past these partisan attacks and focus on working 
together to expand the access to preventative care that will help treat 
breast cancer.

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