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Screenings for birth control, for std testing and treatment. and in many areas of the state, we are the best provider that exists. again, i think we've seen in texas the danger of putting politics ahead of women's health care access. >> wendy davis, do you expect that the health commissioner, that they will actually affectuate this? >> i think they're going to attempt to do that. i think in the long term they're going to find that they're going to meet a roadblock in the law. because when you look at this particular order, it's basically the governor and the health and human services commissio...

Funding from the american taxpayers. >> the only soursz of health care for millions of american women. if you take the funding away, women will suffer. in particular, low-income women. >> that's just not true. there are more than 13,000 that offer these same types of services. there are less than 700 planned parenthood offices. if you want to get out more of them, then you should actually go to these community health centers. >> they do breast cancer screening, std testing and birth control. those numbers are going down, but the number of abortions are

Parties, then they don't need funding from the american taxpayers. >> the only soursz of health care for millions of american women. if you take the funding away, women will suffer. in particular, low-income women. >> that's just not true. there are more than 13,000 that offer these same types of services. there are less than 700 planned parenthood offices. if you want to get out more of them, then you should actually go to these community health centers. >> they do breast cancer screening, std testing and birth control. those numbers are going down,

2.7 million people every year. they come to us by choice. so when i think about what's really at stake here, particularly for folks who think about ending access to planned parenthood, i think about those folks. last year we provided 3 1/2 million birth control services in this country. 4.4 million std testing and treatments. 378,000 pap tests. and almost half a million breast exams and more than 1 million pregnancy tests. i think it is interesting, one of the things we do and planned parenthood is we work to the highest level, most current level of health care for women, and so it is interest...

Organization actually does. 4.4 million std testing and treatment, 3.5 million services of family planning, 935,000 cancer screening and prevention, 1.1 million other women's health services and, yes, 3,000 abortio abortions. i understand you're wanting to end abortion, but you want to cut off all the health screening? >> of course not. i'm a breast cancer survivor, and i want to move into aggression of making sure all women are screened. all those health services you just described are vital to be continued and, actually, vital to be expanded. of course, we should be funding those things. but...