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Providing abortion -- >> none of the federal money goes there. >> people keep going on with this myth that they somehow provide cancer screenings. you can look at the "washington post," it did a fact check. what they do do is very simple, breast exams anyone can do in their shower. if they find something, they can provide a referral. 3% of breast exams result in a referral planned parenthood does not provide. they're an abortion provider. predominantly provide sexual disease screenings and services. that's what the organization does. do they need to get $5 million in medicaid funding? we have ...

It we don't need grannie grannin iowa paying for std screenings in new york. >> excuse me, i don't know if you know the latest data but a lot of seniors have stds it just happens to be true. steve: picking on iowa. >> i want catastrophic. we all agree people who go to emergency rooms should have coverage. everybody agrees vaccines should be covered. everybody agrees hospitalization should be covered. >> what about drugs. >> essential drugs. >> have you listed the 10 essential benefits, mark. the only thing you don't like is maternity care. you are discriminating against women. you just. >> cov...

Raising a lot of eyebrows on sex in america's retirement homes. and not just sex but unsafe sex. the feds finding that seniors are not only doing it but getting sexually transmitted diseases at rates similar to 20 to 24-year-olds. in 2012 alone, 2.2 million medicare beneficiaries getting free std screenings. you've seen a lot of discussion about this. great to see you. >> it's great to be here. and, you know, i have a practice in sarasota, florida, and also here in new york city. in my florida practice, i see so many people in their 70s and 80s and 90s who are very sexually active, gretchen. i...

Passed by the dewey e -- duly elected value officials of our state. terry, should we mention -- also mention that this provision banning abortion at 20 weeks was not part of this lawsuit. so explain as we dissect here how much of a victory is this in the ruling? >> it's a very, very small victory and it is a first step in trying to gain back women's access to health care. texas is a classic example, but this is going on all over the country. what texas did was to pass a whole sort of array of attacks on women's access to reproductive health care services. i think it's really important to under...

Not even slowly, aggressively trying to chip away at women's reproductive health at a time when planned parenthood is the only, in some cases, only place women have -- >> there's more than 7,000 -- >> child care or -- [inaudible conversations] >> yeah. there's more than 7,000 federally-qualified community and rural health centers across this country that women can go to for comprehensive whole woman care. women need more than what planned parenthood can provide, and taxpayer dollars should not be going to a business, an abortion business. and you want to talk about -- >> taxpayer dollars aren'...