House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi during a press conference on Friday afternoon:
It can’t be true that they oppose family planning, that families should determine the size and the timing of their family.
Well, they don’t.
What was terrible to behold last night was for them to not come right out and say I’m not for family planning, but to say I’m not for Planned Parenthood to hide where they really are on this issue.
And we’ve taken votes on it in previous congresses. We have seen this in the votes. So again this is a very dangerous situation for the reproductive health of women across our country. Women of the country and those who care about them must pay attention to this issue.
It’s degrading to women. It’s disrespectful, it doesn’t make any sense, and if you want to reduce the number of abortions in our country, you must commit to supporting contraception and family planning. They’ve never understood that. Perhaps we have to have a lesson in the birds and the bees around here for them to understand that, because listening to the debate on the floor was so surreal.
What are they talking about? What standing to they have on this issue? How can they characterize this when what we know is they do not support family planning. The American people should know that, America’s women should know that.