[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11815]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           CONDEMNING PLANNED PARENTHOOD TRAFFICKING SCANDAL

  (Mr. FORTENBERRY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FORTENBERRY. Madam Speaker, in just a few moments, we will hear 
from a number of colleagues who are all here gathered in great sadness 
and with heavy hearts to denounce, once again, another revelation of 
another gruesome practice by the organization--the taxpayer-funded 
organization--called Planned Parenthood.
  Madam Speaker, it is important to note that Planned Parenthood was 
founded in racism. It profits from the pain of abortion, and now it 
traffics in baby parts.
  How much more do we have to know to awaken us, awaken our conscience 
as a nation, to the gruesome realities again of this taxpayer-funded 
organization?
  So I am pleased that my colleagues have gathered tonight to talk more 
in depth about this, but also to highlight the fact that we are all 
interested in ongoing congressional investigations to determine what 
efforts, what laws, or what new steps need to be taken to ban the 
unethical and dehumanizing practice undertaken by Planned Parenthood.
  We must challenge this assault on human dignity, especially to 
protect the most vulnerable members of our society. I find it very 
interesting, Madam Speaker, that the early feminist movement was 
dedicated to protecting women from abortion.

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