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funding. thank you so much. on that joining us now, south carolina congressman who joined the effort to defund planned parenthood. the stakes are high here. congressman, thanks for joining us. yes, ma am. thank you for having me. you have done something you don t often do which is sign your namen a letter with members of congress basically standing up and saying this is my position. i m not going to move from it. in this case you are saying you re not going to vote for a funding measure that includes continued funding for planned parenthood. you know that you re going to be on a collision course with possibly being responsible for being accused of shutting down the government if you maintain this position. why are you tagking it? i don t believe in infanticide. there are things that define us as a decent people as people of good conscience. when you watch these videos as bar barrick and depraved as they are, when you are discussing the selling of body parts while eating a salad
thank you so much. on that joining us now, south carolina congressman who joined the effort to defund planned parenthood. the stakes are high here. congressman, thanks for joining us. yes, ma am. thank you for having me. you have done something you don t often do which is sign your namen a letter with members of congress basically standing up and saying this is my position. i m not going to move from it. in this case you are saying you re not going to vote for a funding measure that includes continued funding for planned parenthood. you know that you re going to be on a collision course with possibly being responsible for being accused of shutting down the government if you maintain this position. why are you tagking it? i don t believe in infanticide. there are things that define us as a decent people as people of good conscience. when you watch these videos as bar barrick and depraved as they are, when you are discussing the selling of body parts while eating a salad, like yo
bar barrick towards women, stoning them, raping them as punishment, banning them from schools. it s a disgrace. what turned me finally against sending more troops in favor of getting our troops home as soon as possible was not so much the corruption of president karzai, but a statement he made basically saying that women did not deserve equal rights in fact they should be very limited in what they re allowed to do. i began to think what is the true difference between hamid karzai and the taliban. yes, the taliban has been hostile to the united states. i think they understand if they harbor people who are dangerous, we will go back and take them out if necessary, so why are we prop up this government that won t stand up for its own women. i began to realize that it wasn t that our troops couldn t succeed in afghanistan. it was without a government of afghanistan that was a reasonable partner, it was unfair to expect american troops