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
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 to control their reproductive rights. if we got rid of planned parenthood the way the republicans are going after it, those women wouldn t have the same access as well. you don t have those conversations with the republicans. i wish we could find middle ground, i really, really do. but unfortunately, as you saw from today s hearing, they re not trying to find middle ground. they didn t even give ms. richards a chance to answer