He swore that in his affidavit, this is somebody who is watching out for perhaps being prosecuted at the hearing that he had no personal knowledge of anyone at planned parenthood selling fetal tissue for profit. During his testimony, this is about 15 years ago, he admitted that he was paid by an antiabortion group to appear in the sting video. And i want to quote what he said. When i was under oath, i told the truth. Anything i said on the video when i was not under oath that is a different story. Does that not sound like the story of this video . I think it does. I want to know how you can protect yourself as an institutional matter, how do you deal with these repeated stings, unsuccessful though they are, being approached year after year as you attempt to provide Health Services for lowincome women . What do you do as an institutional matter with repeated stings to keep going in the face of this activity . Well, i think what keeps us going, and i think i could speak here for the thou
Five minutes. Ms. Richards, this is my 27th year in congress. Im sure i have seen many male witnesses treated much tougher than you have today. And surely you dont expect us to be easier on you because youre a woman . Absolutely not. Thats not how my mama raised me. Right. All right, let me ask you this. You say in your testimony a lot of women wouldnt have access to certain types of health care were it not for planned parenthood. Do you know that the department of health and Human Services say there are 9,727 Health Care Service delivery sites, 4,082 rural health clinics, 1,200 federally funded qualified Health Centers that also operate 9,000 other sites, over 9,000. Do you know about that . And you also know that there are over 2,000 pregnancy Health Centers over 80 which receive no federal funds at all. And that doesnt even count many hundreds of thousands of private doctors and nurses and Health Care Delivery services, walkin clinics and so forth. Have you taken all of that into co
What we have seen so far the ears have heard what were said. Also, i would address the unnecessary attacks coming from some on the other side. Especially on men taking an interest in the lives of people most important in our lives. If men in this society arent allowed to defend and stand for the women and children we love, where has the country fallen to . It is a shame when we have brought into a frenzy and concern about what happens to our babies, our most defenseless. I just held in my arms my brandnew granddaughter three weeks ago in the african country where she was born. And i thanked god for that unique special life. And i told my soninlaw on the way home. I said its amazing, prince, as we drive home today, having never met this little girl before, i would give my life for her. I love her. Shes unique and special. Thats why we have this hearing today. We want to get to the truth. We want to make sure Womens Health care issues are dealt with and dealt with appropriately. Meeting
In 1988 there was a panel called the human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Panel established under president reagan. The chairman was a republican. The panel came together and studied the Science Behind Fetal Tissue Research and issued this conclusion it was acceptable Public Policy to support Research Using transplanted fetal tissue. That was under president reagan. Is that correct . Thats correct. Ive learned more about the history. It was a committee that had both supporters of abortion rights, opponents of abortion rights. It was a very bipartisan effort to come to what seems like a very good conclusion that was passed over womwhelmingly by Th United States senate. That was the revitalization act of 1993, setting forth rules of how Fetal Tissue Research was done in this country, passed with republican and democratic support; is that correct . Thats correct. So the bipartisan line for decades has been that Fetal Tissue Research has had significant bipartisan support. One of the reasons