There is actually to victims. There is also the woman who has been a victim often times in a planned parenthood facility, but could you share in the brief time i have left anything you would like to say that the other women . I have heard a lot today about safe abortions. We are not having safe abortion in this country. They are not able to have there own children because of it. Why are we talking about why this is not safe. These are the stories to tell it, and it would be more if women were not too ashamed to ashamed and afraid to come out ofand talk about this and sometimes it does not happen for years. Their women they will be up to talk about it for tenten and 20 years command i heard multiple stories, hundreds of how they have been maimed and wounded in every way. I cannot it was hard for me to even bond with my own child that i adopted because of this procedure. I am just begging for you people to protect women. This is notthis is not a good choice for women. Protect us. Do the right thing. Instead of looking at pocket books i would like to ask the committee how many people are receiving donations which saddens my heart. Would you choose that are protecting women . Thank you very much. I yield back my time. The children from tennessee is recognized for five minutes. When mr. Franks made a comment about a bill on the floor three or four weeks ago, on that same day there was another bill to fund planned parenthood. And no one on this side voted for them. He is right, and they did not come to the subcommittee and they did not get to the full committee for markup or for hearing because regular order did not apply because the pope was going to be here, andhere, and we wanted to put the focus on this issue because it was politics. If there is a bill, this is show business hearing. It went straight to the floor, no amendments allowed. Just like benghazi was politics, had accomplices purpose of hurting the woman with the gentleman yield . No, i wont. He admitted but they were doing. This is the same deal. There is not any evidence that there has been any law violated and yet we have a special committee. You admitted that your video had nothing to do with planned parenthood. It was not shot on planned parenthood. He did not to eight years. Medical ethics lost there medical license . The know of anyone who lost a medical license . No . No. And the you . I do not. Medical ethics, case closed. Second question. And i am sorry for your problems of history. Your 1st abortion was a planned parenthood. Where was your your 2nd . In the goldmans clinic. In your 3rd . I believe it was at am a goldman. They do the same types of procedures there. This hearing is about planned parenthood. You now have a notforprofit. What is the name . Cornerstone for life. Do you draw a salary . I geti get a stipend. And that is . A thousand dollars a month. And you are considered a christian speaker. Usually i do not get paid the fact is, this hearing is just like benghazi, the select committee on planned parenthood made his politics. The whole idea that this is about planned parenthood is wrong and doctor levantine it has admitted there is no evidence of any medical, ethical impropriety, only a title it has been put up your. One 3rd of her history is planned parenthood it is unfortunate that this is how were spending our time. Perform by planned parenthood and happy medicaid reimburses them. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Please be careful using this. We didnt get into the practices, the fetal body tissue issues. We were very narrowly focused on the finances. The. We were making is that planned parenthood had revenue of 127 million more. We started to look at a Nonprofit Organization is what people are making and how they were spending that money. Theythey were spending money and giving it to political organizations, have a lot of shared services. I think that is a legitimate question as we look at the finances of organization that is structured as a Nonprofit Organization. I was asked a direct question about the finances. Thatthat is the way i took the question given the direction and drive of the hearing. Did we find any wrongdoing . The answer was no. In one moment it is inappropriate to suggest that i have come to some grand conclusion that every part of the operation. We did subpoena the video. We have some of those videos in a safe. We have jointly worked with the democrats on that. We had a court ruling earlier this week to get the rest of those videos. There was a temporary restraining order in california that would not release his videos. The judge recently ruled in our favor in the videos are being sent to congress. I will work with Elijah Cummings and figure out the best course home what to do. But just caution to members that it is a bit of a stretch to say that i have done some conclusive investigation. Did i look at the finances, yes. It is a legitimate question to all of us. Why do we send money to an organization were revenue exceeds expenses . That does not sound like an organization that needs to be supplemented by taxpayer dollars. Yield for a question. I just want to ask whether or not you have any evidence in that planned parenthood has broken the law . The video that has been out there, the rumors 11 swirling with the testimony causes a lot of people to legitimately ask and dive into whether or not what theyre doing is illegal. It is a legitimate question from an objective. Of view, and so ii think they will continue to be investigations. I voted in favor which does have to go further and dive deeper into those issues, but i dont think that the final chapter has been written all this criticism. That is so false. The 1st notforprofit organization was the nfl. I called out the nfl. They restructured and for the 1st time they are now no longer a notforprofit organization. A notforprofit organization. In a very bipartisan way with Elijah Cummings and the democrats we worked on that issue and made a major transformation, major change and looking at another notforprofit organization and is taking hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, legitimate decision in the context of an 18 plus trillion dollar debt which is a discussion we had, proud of it. With that, i yield back. The chair thanks the gentleman. Would you mind me having a look. While she is coming down to do that let me ask doctor levantine question. Is there any circumstance under which you agree that a woman should have a right to have an abortion to abort a fetus that was eroding from incest or rape . If i were a congressman. You support a law that would ban. Not been come allow. You believe that a woman should have a right to choose. All the same morally have a great problem with that. Politically i would vote for such a law. Heartbeat at 21 days. Its never okay to have an abortion. We have 57 million missing people. You went to work at planned parenthood terminating pregnancies. I started as a clinic assistant. You are a woman who was fired by planned parenthood. You love planned parenthood. Do you believe that they should be defunded . Indeed i do. Brought with fraud. Thank you. You have a lawsuit pending. A whistleblower case. If you when you make a lot of money. We never really talked about that. You will make a lot of money if you went cant take it from me. I dont need a lamborghini. I dont know what i would do with that. Money does not matter. Right. Time the truth is what matters. Okay. Well, as far as you know planned parenthood does not make political contributions, does it . I have no idea what contributions it makes . Or if they do. They dont, do they . I am not familiar with the entire corporate structure. Doctor, are you aware of the stories of the many women whose lives have literally been saved by planned parenthood . In what way . That is a my question. Are you aware of that being the case . Are attached to the question without knowing in what context you are asking it. How about you . I would ask the same question. Ii do you dont want to answer the question. Well, you have not heard about the story of tiffany who was so broke she cannot afford a regular dr. Visit the plan parenthood was her only option than that of routine pap smear that planned parenthood diagnosed her with cervical cancer. The early discovery of which saved her life. Have familiar . I would ask how much money they ask after the dinner pap smear. Am sure it was the levy payable. It could not be more than the value of her life. If she would have gone to a federally qualified health center. Maybe she could not have gotten conversation. In my town is four blocks. There are other people at different circumstances. Shouldnt you be concerned about them . Are 20 free clinics for everyone planned parenthood. Theythey are everywhere. And the purpose of this hearing was to shut down planned parenthood because of abortion. The time of the gentleman has expired. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Gomer, for five minutes. Would you yield back to me briefly . Yes. I just want to stay for the record regarding the. , in the state of georgia there are for planned parenthood locations, most or all of which provide abortion services. Therethere are 274 other healthcare alternatives that provide Women Services that do not provide abortion. In terms of convenience of location, they would be a good argument that there is much more convenience to get to Healthcare Facilities, Public Health care facilities that do not include abortion services. Thank you. I think there was some effort to cast doubt on your capabilities that it has been working for planned parenthood since you were not an attorney. I doi do not know how many attorneys we have running planned parenthood facilities, but i hope that there are not many. There is typically one per affiliate. Really . One lawyer for planned parenthood affiliate . They do lobbying and run the pack the Political Action committee. They have a pack . And how many mammograms to those do . They do not do mammograms if we cut federal funding for planned parenthood across the country how many women would be denied mammograms . Zero. But if we cut funding theyre would be lawyers the do lobbying and some people that get political donations money and financing. My friend indicated it was a myth that it would provide services and yet when we here the actual facts it turns out while, if we provided the money directly to Healthcare Facilities that do nothing but help women with the full range of services for women, including mammograms and things that planned parenthood never does, it sounds like that women would have even better services, more Services Even though a lot of parts were break for the lawyers that would not be able to get the federal funding and be able to lobby and donate to our democratic friends. I was so pleased with the comment from my friend from genesee the benghazi was politics. That is exactly what we have been trying to get to. It was politics. You had people meeting here in america in washington while people were dying, while time was was gathering David Evans Anglin dority and going to the rooftop to man guns to try to protect the people in those facilities. Yes, benghazi was about politics. And ii would love to know what the president was doing that night. If i have people that worked for me i cannot go to bed. It apparently there was plenty of rest before he went to the fundraiser in las vegas the next day. Yes, my colleague is right. It was about politics, and politics command we need to get to the bottom of why those people were killed while no one in washington that knew what was going on lifted a finger he is on a gurney, and they are beating his leg blown off against the side of the little plane someone in washington those that are doing nothing. You bet it was politics. We need to say yes. That was politics, and we need to find out why it was so political set of coming together as americans in protecting those people. My time is expired. The chair recognizes gentleman from florida for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. It is remarkable to me that the two most important issues to the majority of our collided and one hearing now one of four committees investigating planned parenthood. What are we investigating . No one said this, but we need to be clear about it. The goal of the majority is to return to a nation where rove the way it is not the law of the land and women do not enjoy the constitutional right at the Supreme Court make clear they have to make decisions about there own body. Now, i dont know why we are here. We arethey are not here to talk about the fruitless investigations undertaken by six different states that have failed to find any legal wrongdoing, not here to discuss the merits of fetal tissue donation given that the knew new england journal of medicine growth in every person in this country have benefited command we are not here to discuss a federal court order issued this week mandating the center for medical progress turnover more of its misleading and fraudulent documentation. The only purpose is to smear a Healthcare Provider that enjoys aa higher Approval Rating among the American People than i would guess any member in this body enjoys. As this committee contemplates medical ethics of womens reproductive freedoms i asked this question, the medical ethics of not holding any hearings on aa gun violence epidemic the claims the lives of 30,000 americans every year for the medical ethics of not holding a hearing on the 12,000 homicides and accidental gun deaths and 18,010 deaths by suicide, and the medical ethics of states trying to bend pediatricians from discussing basic gun Safety Measures with parents . This House Judiciary Committee has held zero hearings. Nor has this Committee Held hearings on the deadly Mass Shootings have inflicted so much grief and committee. Not after santa barbara, and there have been none scheduled after roseburg. Not after any of the Mass Shootings that have occurred. October is Domestic Violence awareness month. More than 1600 women were murdered my men. While this committee continues its redundant attacks over Womens Health command ignores the reality that every day american women are murdered future domestic gun violence. It is Congress Works to ensure that women face even more humiliating obstacles violent offenders are still able to skirt background checks and get guns to commit horrific crimes. The American People already frustrated. Even the most basic action. This committee have there jurisdiction, this one, judiciary committee. There is a bipartisan Public Safety and Second Amendment protection act introduced by congressman thompson and king them close gun sale loopholes with comprehensive background checks for all purposes. The tracethe trace act that empowers Law Enforcement to stop the flow of guns to streets. Congresswoman maloneys maloneys legislation to lift the ban on federal research on gun violence, my own legislation , the safe and responsible transfer act. Not one of those bills, not want has been the subject of a hearing from this committee, not even a hearing with the majority can bring in witnesses to tell us why bipartisan supported and is somehow to extreme. That has not been a single hearing on any commonsense improvements to gun laws. The American People are frustrated with congress. The time for silence on this issue is over. At the beginning of the hearing today one of my colleagues talked about the selfimposed blindness, selfimposed blindness. That is a selfimposed blindness that congress has to gun violence. The humanity of the victims he hopes becomesbecome so glaring that it moves an entire generation of the American People. I can only hope that the humanity of the victims of the thousands the tens of thousands of lives lost my move this congress to finally take action. I yield back. The gentleman yields back. Chair recognizes the gentleman from idaho. I would like to say that there are right now on the books hundreds of federal gun control laws and regulations and yet in the last six years the enforcement, the prosecutions for violations of all those laws are down by 30 percent. It seems to me that an administration led by an individual who calls for more laws every time we have one of the strategies ought to go look in the mayor and determine what is appropriate. Will the gentleman yield. I will not. It is a problem that can be addressed with the laws that exist now. Members of congress are on a week long break. Members are in their home districts or traveling. During the week, both the house and senate will hold occasional proforma sessions. In the senate monday, october 19th work resumes in the house tuesday, october 20th. You can watch the senate live on cspan2 and the house on cspan. On the next washington journal, viveca novak on the money spent on capitol hill by gun control advocates and gun rights groups. 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