families. and we have to make sure and fight to assure that they continue to have access to the services that they need to do that. tammy duckworth, quickly, before we go, when you re in private conversations with republicans and they say to you, look planned parenthood doesn t provide anything that women can t get elsewhere. how do you respond to that. what happened in committee today, jim jordan from ohio implied that if we didn t fund planned parenthood, we could use that money for things like the department of defense. well n the hearing actually what i said was, you know, of all the women in the military who are victims of military sexual trauma, sometimes planned parenthood is the only source of the care that they need and to go after planned parenthood is ironic, because these are the same women who defend and continue to defend the constitution for the rest of us, yet they don t have the rights
parenthood, i would not have been able to stay on my college education path and lift myself up and out of poverty. there s so many women in this country today who could tell that story. and it s why this fight is so very, very important. this isn t about cecile richards. it s not about planned parenthood. it s about a war on the very health care services that will provide women an opportunity to be autonomous and to take care of themselves and their families. and we have to make sure and fight to assure that they continue to have access to the services that they need to do that. tammy duckworth, quickly, before we go, when you re in private conversations with republicans and they say to you, look planned parenthood doesn t provide anything that women can t get elsewhere. how do you respond to that. what happened in committee today, jim jordan from ohio implied that if we didn t fund planned parenthood, we could use that money for things like the