patrick: my name is patrick kelly. i am honored to serve as the chairman of the board of the march for life. on behalf of the board and the whole march for life team, i would like to welcome you to the largest annual civil rights demonstration in the world. before we begin, let us join together in the pledge of led by a member of the knights of columbus council at george washington university. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

patrick: thank you, michael. each year we are grateful for orthodox andf the roman catholic bishop of opening our rally in prayer. in continuing this tradition, i am now happy to welcome to the stage, on behalf of the assembly of canonical bishops, his of new jersey who will offer the opening prayer. joining him are bishops representing the greek orthodox archdiocese of america, the orthodox orth archdiocese of the united states and the orthodox christian church in america and the roman catholic bishops of the united states.

>> let us pray to the lord. lord, jesus christ, our god, who created mankind in your image and likeness, setting us apart from all creation to glorify your majesty, bringing us together on this auspicious occasion for the annual march for life. as we gather to celebrate your divine gift of life, freely offered to all, we are reminded that your right hand controls course of humanity and life, according to the degrees of providence for our salvation. we therefore offer you our lord and god our gratitude for all our blessings for the earthly life in the heavenly joys of

your kingdom which is to come. lord, our god, who is well pleased to come down from the heavens and to be born of the ever virgin mary, the holy mother of god, for the salvation of us sinners, who knows the frailty of human nature, according to your passion, forgive the sins and be gracious to your servants who, through ignorance or willfulness defy your sovereignty and benevolence through the sins of abortion and the taking of another life. divinerce of origin is and not human. we pray that you will forgive fear the challenges laid upon them and who have

that whatever is born of god belongs in the world. we reaffirm our unwavering to the dignity of every human being and the sanctity of each human life. indeed, marching in unity and common purpose, we strive to embrace all human nature, but children ofhe the world, both born and unborn. such is the kingdom of have been. amen.

>> thank you very much, your eminence. i would like to add that we also had the little sisters of the porro p or to join us in prayer. up here to join us in prayer, and we are very grateful that they are here today. -- i woulde to thank like to especially thank all of you who came here today and have the courage to be here and make your voice heard when we have a major storm barreling down on washington, d.c.

each one of us here today has a key role to play in what is the most important human rights movement in the 21st century. decades from now, you will be proud to say you came to washington to march. you will be proud to say you came ahead of your time, standing up for the truth that to be pro-life is to be , and to be pro-woman is to be pro-life. the abortion industry doesn't want you to believe this truth. they are in industry fueled by big dollars that tries to intimidate and control the debate. they thrive on a throwaway culture and they insist on dividing and bullying those who disagree with them twice beginning of a fictional war on women. -- by speaking of a fictional war on women.

our movement is different. it is billed by you, the grassroots. we come from communities and towns all across america. we come to show that we cannot be intimidated. we come to raise our voices and build a culture that affirms the unimaginable possibilities of both a pregnant mother and her unborn baby. the march for life has a simple message about pregnant moms and their babies. we love them both. and our message is winning. a poll released this week shows that three quarters of americans agree that our country's laws should protect both mothers and unborn babies. the same poll shows that despite that ourar narrative

country is evenly divided on abortion, eight in 10 americans actually support substantial , and thisabortion number even includes two thirds of those who say they are pro-choice. so, something is changing in america, and it's this. being pro-life and pro-woman is now the new normal. it is now my privilege to introduce the leader who has worked so hard to build this gettingr life, which is younger and bigger every year. please join me in welcoming the of the march for life, jeannie mancini. jeannie: thank you.

hello out there. is anyone cold out there? good afternoon, marchers, and welcome to the 43rd annual march for life. a little snow could not keep you away, could it? thank you for being here despite the weather forecast. the world may think we are little crazy to be here on a day like today, but those of us standing here know that there is no sacrifice to great to fight the human rights abuse of abortion. today, i am going to ask you to show the world why you are pro-life, why you would come to washington despite the cold, despite the wind, and despite snowyow we forecast -- forecast. i want you to share photos and

stories about why you march for life. and you use this -- you do this by using hashtag what? hashes based tag what? #-- hashtag what? #whywemarch. our theme this year is pro-life and pro-woman go hand in hand. why this theme? why now? importantly, a woman's capacity to have a child is an incredible, beautiful, and amazing thing. it is something inherent to women. it is a miracle. not a liability. this is true for women who might ever be biological mothers. it is a beautiful, beautiful

thing. the capacity to be a mom is part of who are woman is as a person. it is not that they are defined by it. it is not a liability. why should it be? to treat a woman's capacity of motherhood as something to be downplayed is a misunderstanding of the inherent nature and dignity of women, and of men as well. secondly, abortion is not good for women. psychologically or physically. you know what? this isn't just my opinion or just your opinion. science and research strongly support this reality and americans know that it's true. just this week, a poll was released that showed that a majority of americans believe abortion does more harm than good to women. many, many women regret their abortion and s very difficult psychological consequences.

i don't want any woman to ever have to go through that, and i know you don't either, do you? and there could be physiological consequences. the next time the mom gives birth, there could be an early birth or other consequences. i remember once talking to the data of a beautiful young woman, 18 years old from california, holly patterson, who died as a result of safe, legal abortion in a planned parenthood. it has been said politically and culturally that for one to be pro-woman, one must be pro-choice, but nothing could be further from the truth. there are many confusing messages regarding women and the issue of abortion, but the empowering truth is we know that being pro-life and pro-woman go

hand in hand. the fact is, pro-life is pro-woman, and that is why i march. wonderful. later in our program, we are going to recognize the many great organizations with us. many will be involved in the electoral process. we are going to have a wealth of information shared on strong pro-life candidates all year. we do not endorse specific candidates for public office, but we are grateful to all of those candidates at every level who are courageously standing up for life. very excited to introduce you to someone. this theme of pro-life and pro-woman go hand and hand -- hand in hand is shared by many women who are not afraid to stand up and be courageous in

their support for life. fiorina.woman is carly carly was the first woman to lead a fortune 50 company as the head of hewlett-packard. advocate andionate someone who wholly embodies this years theme. please welcome to the stage carly fiorina. ms. fiorina: good afternoon. , jeannie. it is so inspiring to see so many great pro-life, pro-woman advocates out here on a chilly afternoon. it's not quite as cold as iowa or new hampshire, i have to tell you. still, it's inspiring to see all of you out here with sonoma get snowmaggedon bearing down

on us. even that cannot stop us from rallying for a cause that is oh important. in less than a year, there will be a new president in the white house. president will have the pickme responsibility to up to four supreme court justices who will decide issues of life and religious liberty. we forcedecide whether taxpayers to fund the political arm of the abortion industry, ,hether we as a nation believe as the democrat platform says, that a life is not a life until it leaves the hospital. yes, that is the democrat a life is not a life until it's born, and they call us extreme. it is democrats, the pro-abortion industry that is

extreme. the next president of the united states will have a lot to say about whether a baby only a month from being born is only as good as the organs you can sell from it. make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, this election is a fight for the character of our nation. the establishment media and the political class actually don't want us to talk about what the .bortion industry is doing use what happened when i talked about the horrific truth of the planned parenthood -- you saw what happened when i talked about the horrific truth of the planned parenthood videos at the republican debate. you have seen the videos. you have seen an aborted baby, its legs kicking, it's hard

beating, while the technician describes how they want to keep the baby alive to harvest its organs. the left called me a liar. were no suchre videos, no aborted babies born harvesting of parts. a few short weeks later planned parenthood came out and said they would no longer take compensation for baby organs. that sounds like an admission to me. as we stand here today, hillary clinton is in new hampshire giving a pro-abortion speech. i has aaying that conservative woman, that all of us as conservative women, don't count. but here is the truth.

feminismhas perverted into political ideology were women are pitted against men and used as weapons to win elections. being empowered, i know that, having started as a secretary, i know that being empowered means having a voice. but conversations are being shutdown on college campuses and in the media. if you are a pro-life man or, heaven for bid, a conservative woman, who doesn't believe the litanies of the left, you are waging a war on women, a threat to women's health, or variously ,"scribed as "window dressing or offensive as a candidate.

ladies and gentlemen, ours is a the character of our nation. it is a fight to take our country back, and citizens, we must take our country back. it is why aim running for president because i believe the time has come. time asacing a perilous a nation. we must take our country back. i have visited pregnancy centers around the country. they are doing god's work and they do not receive a dime of federal funding. the pro-abortion left cannot stand it when we talk about defunding planned parenthood. they scream at the top of their lungs about taking away women's health, unless, of course, you bring up pregnancy centers or

community hot balls. then the left -- community health centers. then the left goes dead silent. this has never been about women for them. it is about the litany of the left and funding their political agenda. this is a fight we can and will win. planned parenthood regularly .hows up at my events let me say to all the planned parenthood supporters who show up, you can scream and throw condoms at me all day long. you will not silence me. me.will not scare i have battled breast cancer. i have buried a child. i know the value of life.

my husband,, i met frank. when we were married, i learned that her mother was told -- his mother was told by her doctors to abort him. instead, she chose to bring her son into the world. she spent almost a year after his birth in the hospital, but he has been the joy of his life and the rock of mine. i think often about how different my life would be of she had made a different choice. every person has god-given gifts. each of us has more potential than we realize. science is on our side. public opinion is on our side. we are winning this site -- fight, ladies and gentlemen, but we need a fearless fighter in the white house, not just to win this election, but to restore the character of our nation.

you can bet that i will win this fight against hillary clinton. and you can count on what i will .o as president i will defund planned parenthood. support health centers around the country. i will restore the character of this nation. fight with me, stand with me. together, we must take our country back and restore its character. so very much. god bless you all. jeannie: thank you very much, carly. has focusedjim daly on helping families thrive. by daily radio show is heard nearly 3 million people across the united states. please help me in welcoming to the stage, jim daly.

jim: man, carly, what a great speech. what gives me such hope for this nation, when you have people who want to run for president who are committed to the pro-life movement like that. hey, i want to say a couple of things in a couple of minutes. first, thank you to the catholic community. i even gel a look, but thank you to the way. , butam an evangelical thank you to the catholics for leading the way. we are grateful for your leadership on this issue. us a while to come to the party, but we're with you. the other thing i would like to mention is just the work in ultrasound through

efforts. it is estimated that we have saved over 358,000 babies from abortion. forward, we need to look that are not awake yet to the reality of what is being with the grace of god, the love of god, and the truth of god's words. thank you very much. jim.ie: thank you, today we have two powerful pro-life videos to share with you. to introduce the first, i am happy to welcome to the stage, marjorie dan felder. >> everyone standing here has a bond with everyone who has marched these streets since the

founding of this nation to attack and win great human rights battles. congratulate yourselves. you are in a straight line of succession. ,ust over 100 years ago thousands of women marched for the right to vote. they came to express their support for the equal rights of women in the voting bloc. the suffrage parade went from the capital to the white house and came at a time that was have it all in the battle for the right to win -- pivotal in the right to win suffrage. it is a right women have been fighting for for more than 60 years. it achieved all kinds of success in the states, but all of the activities that had gotten to the national level was stalled. , this sounds very

familiar, doesn't it? within 19 years of that parade, they won suffrage, they won the equal rights of women at the ballot box. in the 19th amendment was passed. the women who marched in 1913 new as we do that pro-life and pro-woman go hand in hand. the parade's organizer was alice paul, the author of the equal rights amendment, who had called abortion the great exploiter of the equal rights of women. as i look at in this crowd, i think i see some people, especially some young women, who will become members of congress

as well. many of the pro-life successors of jeannette rankin and alice paul are here with us today. fightingen have been passionately in the house of representatives, the u.s. senate, and legislatures around the country for the right to life, the defunding of planned parenthood, and the end of abortion completely, starting with stopping abortion after five months. at least. for heaven sake. with a great partnership of knights of columbus, and with the march for life, susan b anthony list would like to present you some of the beautiful women blazing the trail to affirm the rights of the unborn and the rights of women that go hand-in-hand. here is a video. [video clip] pregnant withwas my second son, stephan. i marched down pennsylvania and lobbied my member of congress

with a petition for the rights of the unborn. >> when i had my children, the pro-life movement had so much more meaning to me. >> it's a celebration of life. >> defending life is always the right thing to do. >> i would encourage a young woman to be courageous. >> women bring life into the world and know firsthand the value of life. >> you need to step forward. you need to step up. and we need to let people see who we are, what we stand for, what our values are. >> we have a record number of women in office right now, serving in congress who are pro-life. forf you're not running office yourself, you had better be supporting people who are. >> it's so important that you get involved and make your voices heard. >> the main challenge we have is

to always speak from the heart. sometimes very difficult situations that women are in, and we understand that. >> thank you for carrying this message to people all over the country. >> thank you for participating in the march for life. it's something the media cannot adore. >> it's the one day they understand, my goodness, look at -- media cannot ignore. the one day they understand, my goodness, look at how passionate they are. >> we are winning the battle of hearts and minds. i personally live for the day when abortion is not just illegal, when abortion is unthinkable.

>> i very aunt or to introduce a great pro-life voice from the united states -- very greatd to introduce a pro-life voice from the united states senate. she has been a champ in of the cause from her first day in office. welcome to a warm senator joni arch from iowa. >> thank you. welcome to washington, d.c. good afternoon, everybody. first, let me say that there is no place i would rather be than right here with you on this cold january day. the angst for coming out. for coming out. i am truly honored to be here to stand, but to march, to protect the most vulnerable of our society.

thank you all, including those i met this morning from the great and all of the young future leaders we have here today in the crowd. your cars, in boarding the planes and trains, putting on your coats, your mittens, your gloves, and life.ng for l , thank youst year for helping me fight to remind that we arehington a nation that protects life. thank you for helping me to fight in washington to shine a compassione lack of shown by planned parenthood for women and their babies. and thank you for helping me

fight to remind those in washington that we are a nation that will stand up together to say we can and we must do better. the theme of this years march is pro-life and pro-woman go hand in hand. and it is such an important message. many of those fighting against have claimed that our efforts to protect and defend life at all stages of development constitute a war on women. i reject that. i reject that. because i will remind them that woman, and in -- a

have been to war, and let me be clear, this is no war on women. that's right. that's right. to me, being pro-life a deephat you have respect for the miracle of life and a woman's unique ability to bring life into this world. being pro-life means you recognize the joint of a mother,y toher, and society at large protect and nurture each and every life from the moment it and you see abortion as a reflection of our collective failure to meet that responsibility, and not a litmus for the advancement of

women's rights. being pro-life means you reject the notion that the loss of millions of babies through abortion honors the civil liberties, independence, or strength of a woman. being pro-life means that you mourn the loss of thousands of that ares and boys lost each year to abortion in the united states, and you believe we should cherish women and girls equally at every stage of their development. thank you. look around you. look to your left and look to your right. as you can see by the crowd assembled here today, many of us are mothers, grandmothers, pro-womanro-life and

does in deed go hand in hand. redirecten fighting to dollars from planned parenthood, the nations single largest provider of abortions, and to otherrovide them entities like community health centers and hospitals, which will provide health care services to women but do not provide abortions. to your support, earlier this month, congress was able to put legislation on the president's desk to defund planned parenthood.

i have also joined my colleagues in support of the pain capable unborn child protection act in an effort to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy, a stage of development that evidence shows unborn babies can feel pain. the day i took to the senate to speak for this bill, i had the opportunity to meet a beautiful three-year-old boy from newton, iowa, named micah pickering. micah was born prematurely at just five months of development. around myyfully ran office, his mother and father explained to me that they know

micah was just as full of life at five months of development as he is now. as mica proved, and unborn baby in his fifth month of development is not just a clump of cells. they have 10 fingers and 10 toes . they can feel pain and they can survive outside of the womb. it's what we all know, folks. it's what we all know. life is indeed precious, and we are a country that stands for life. in order to rise and meet that commitment, we must protect the most vulnerable in our society, particularly those who cannot protect themselves.

as a mother and grandmother, thank you for joining me today here and every day to stand, to .peak, and to march for life god bless you all. thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much, senator ernst, and thank you for your commitment. just a quick announcement. we have a young boy who is lost, droste -- dressed in camouflage, and he is in the lost person's tent. we ask his parents to go claim him. i am now very happy to introduce of newsman chris smith

jersey, the cochair of the bipartisan congressional power -- pro-life caucus. he has been the chairman for nearly three decades and a courageous pro-life leader in congress. please join me in welcoming chris smith of new jersey. >> thank you very much. i am joined onstage by some of the true champions and leaders ,f the right to life movement beginning with an wagner, congresswoman from new jersey. steve pearce, and mark meadows. thank you especially to the people from their districts who have sent them here. they are unbelievably effective, and again, we are turning the tide.

today, thegentlemen, pro-life movement is stronger than ever and is making serious, significant, and sustained progress. have been historic. 280 two pro-life laws have been enacted since 2010. in the last year alone, nine terrible pro-life measures have passed the house. special thanks to speaker paul ryan, kevin mccarthy, and kathy rogers. although hillary clinton supports abortion on demand until birth and an extremist position and this month called for the end of the hyde , a new poll shows that americans actually want more , includingotections no taxpayer funding for abortion.

this is the tip of an ugly planned parenthood, a multibillion dollar industry that systematically exterminates children. subsidized by over $500 million in taxpayer funds every year, planned parenthood dismember's are chemically poisons a baby to death every dish dismember's or chemically poisons a baby to death every two minutes -- s or chemically poisons a baby to death every two minutes. planned parenthood is child abuse incorporated. recent undercover videos by the center for medical progress have exposed in numbing candor several high-powered planned parenthood leaders gleefully

talking about procuring organs and eu zynga's member may procedures to preserve intact live -- using dismemberment procedures to preserve in tact delivers -- in hearts and lungs. planned parenthood was eager to provide abortions for child sex trafficking victims. planned parenthood promoted sex selection abortions, especially of little girls. take note of this. next week, there will be an override of president obama's veto of the bill to defund planned parenthood. and we will win that in the house. , you are the antidote,

ladies and gentlemen, especially our young people. my daughter elise is in the crowd. to thisthe antidote present darkness, the culture of death. think of women and children, because we love them both, be further involved. defend life with all the currid, faith, insight, compassion, and -- courage, faith, insight, compassion, and love that you can muster. do not get down, give up, or get discouraged ever. ask god for strength. fasting ander with smart and diligent pro-life work at every level, including political. , america will protect the weakest and most , and into eternity, each and everyone of you will

have played a critical part in this all-important human rights struggle. thank you and god bless you. >> thank you, congressman. and i would like to note that our little boy who was lost has now been found. is joined inmith the caucus by dan lipinski of .llinois mr. lipinski unfortunately was not able to be with us today, but he sends his heart felt warm wishes for a successful march. you can aid the work of all these great pro-life legislators by being sure to visit your member of congress after the march today, encourage them to continue the fight to enact pro-life laws, and remind them that there are thousands back home just like you.

in recent years, we have been encouraged by pro-life voices from around the world. they, like us, hold their own marches and say, like us, speak for the most vulnerable among us. the march for life hosted an international meeting of leaders for life fromes fro around the world. we are very proud to present this video that showcases our leaders and reminds us that the movement is truly global. [video clip] an international group. a lot of international leaders

come. they get a lot of inspiration and they go home and build their own march for life. >> 18 years ago, we started our first march in canada. we had less than 1000 people. in 2015, we had 25,000. it is important that we continue until canada restores a new culture of life. clicks the march in ireland is a celebration of life and brings a message not just to the public, but to politicians saying we could do better by mothers and babies. >> what inspiring as the number of young people who come to these events. it's a phenomenal effort from grassroots organizers.

>> we march through the streets. we are there to have a festival of life, a festival of love, and we want to pass the message on. u.k. and nowthe it's through the world. >> we have nearly 40 years of abortion in italy. the march helps people understand that life is a gift. >> abortion is not legal, but we by ngos tryingk

to legalize abortion in peru. we have to defend the mother, defend the child, defend family. >> the march for life is important because we have to defend life. we are the pro-life generation and we are defending everything, every day, every year, the life of the unborn. >> the march for life, whatever country it is, can be so powerful, because often people feel alone, but there is unity,ng in the power of solidarity, and the message that we are going to keep protecting every human life from conception to natural death.

>> great. ok, i can see a lot of you guys with your teeth chattering, so i know you are cold and ready to march. it's about 10 minutes until we kick off the march, so stick with us because these last speakers are awesome. we know that pro-life and pro-woman go hand in hand. wrote a book in response to a culture that would have us believe that in order to be pro-woman we cannot be pro-life. we know that's not true. please welcome her to the stage. >> hello, everybody. in 1969, i was fired for being pregnant. a job at to cosmopolitan magazine where i

promoted abortion as the royal road to women's freedom. now i have written this book to say that i was wrong. i was wrong about abortion. women are most empowered and most free when we are with others.d your branch of the women's movement, pro-life family feminism, gave women the right to vote. your branch of the women's movement, pro-life family fan in family feminism, launched second wave feminism in the 1960's. and your branch of the women's movement, pro-life family feminism is still here today marching in the streets, hundreds of thousands strong, defending the bond of love between a mother and her baby. you, not planned parenthood, not naral pro-choice america, represents the authentic women's

movement of the 21st century. up, washington post. wake up, usa today. need to stop pinning the rights of the mother against the rights of the baby. whatever harms the baby harms the mother. whatever harms the mother harms the baby. whatever harms either of them harms us all. we are the new feminists of the 21st-century. wake up, media. we have the power. we are not afraid, and we are not going away. clicks thank you so much, sue ellen. an important part of our pro-life work has to do with women who chose an abortion.

for more than a decade, the silent no more awareness campaign has brought a message of hope and healing to thousands of such women. i am so grateful for the courageous witness of our next speaker, and i ask you to join me in welcoming jules green to the stage to share her story of hope and healing. >> thank you. thank you so much. it is so wonderful and overwhelming to see so many people gathered together for life. because when i was a pregnant .eenager, there was no one i knew no one who was pro-life. a pregnant teenager, i already thought of myself as a new mother. but no one supported my choice to parent. i knew no one who agreed with me, no one who advocated for life. i was alone. so i surrendered. pressure,red to the from the culture, from family,

from friends, to abort my first child. and then i surrendered to the deep depression that immediately horrible,hat regretful decision. within a few weeks of my abortion, i attempted suicide. i spent a month in a psychiatric unit to recover. to then i surrendered again the world around me, to a culture telling me that abortion was ok, that i should be ok. just get over it. and then i get at an abortion facility, and it was there, at that abortion clinic, for years, i kept trying to believe what everyone around me was insisting, that abortion was no big deal. a simple medical procedure, a choice. but i knew i missed my baby. and i saw the women at that abortion clinic, crying in the , crying in the

procedure room, crying in the recovery room, day after day, .ear after year but it was not until many years later, after leaving the abortion industry, that i was finally able to face the brutal ,ruth that abortion is wrong abortion is always wrong, abortion always extinguishes the of a-- the light of life, unique, irreplaceable and unrepeatable member of our human family. truth was accepting this that finally led made to -- led meconversion to spiritual conversion, forgiveness, and healing. thank you. once i became pro-life, i knew i .ould not stay silent

thank you all for being here and for your dedication, and for believing in and welcoming us who have been converted. welcoming regretful and repent for mothers and fathers, mothers .ho mourn, and people like me i finished surrendering to a world that treats children is disposable. i am finished surrendering my voice. you can hear others who refuse to remain silent on the steps of the supreme court where you will hear the testimony of many men, women, and families who mourn. i'm jules green, and i am silent no more. >> thank you, jewels, for your powerful witness. the center for the baltimore

-20 13, max 2009 burke was part of a team that won super bowl 47. from the ravens, he has served as the director of football development for the national football league. matt is a courageous and inspiring advocate for life. he is a super bowl champ and a pro-life champ. please join me in welcoming matt burke. >> anybody cold? me neither. i just want to say from a peer you guys all look great, every single one of you. ie last couple of weeks started telling people that i was coming down here to dcn they would ask me why. , and they would ask me why. i said i'm going to the march for life. why are you going there? why are you marching? i said you mean in addition to the things we have seen in the

last few months, all of the videos we have seen? do you want to know why we march? let me tell you why. i for pop layer, so i keep things real simple. , so im a football player keep things real simple. have nevercause i heard of a woman who gave birth to a baby and then said i wish i'd had an abortion. that's why we march. have never heard anybody say i wish i had fewer kids. that's why we march. because i never heard a worker at a life clinic decide to leave and go work at an abortion clinic. that's why we march. because of black lives matter, lives in the will matter. matter. in the womb

that's why we march. because if you have ever seen a baby being born, even though you know it happens millions of times a day, it's still a miracle. it's pure joy. i will if you have ever experienced adoption, it is one of the most beautiful things in the world. it is an active sacrifice by the birth mother to know that she can give the child what he or she needs and so she does the selfless act of giving the baby up for adoption. that is love. in this world for we have dictators and communism and nuclear weapons and hunger and disease, don't we need more miracles might do we need more joy, don't we need more love? that is why we march.

and for the millions of women, the abortion survivors out there who are the real heroes of this movement who have the courage to come forward and say that they made a mistake and they want to and their painat want themeal and we to know we love them and we appreciate them. that is why we march. the end of the day, there is only two choices. you are either pro-life or you are pro-abortion. and we are unapologetically pro-life. that is why we march. god bless us all. he already has.

>> thank you, matt. i am very happy to introduce our dr. marguerite duane who was a physician who embodies the spirit of our theme. of an the cofounder organization. please welcome to the stage the leader of this woman-empowering organization. >> thank you so much. amind it ironic that i called to be for the voiceless when i have not had a voice for 20 -- twice for hours. as a physician, and a woman, i how beinglustrate pro-life is per woman.

-- movement shares the scientific truth with women about their body and fertility. that the moment the egg and sperm fusing and the woman still be in two, a unique human being is formed with dna and place that determines everything from gender to eye color. immediately after conception this new human embryo develops rapidly as it travels down the fallopian tube before imprinting itself in the lining of the woman's uterus at seven to 10 days of age. i mention this because many medical organizations try to obfuscate this information. they do this because there are some forms of hormonal birth control and iuds that may prevent implantation of this newly formed human being area causing an early abortion. science shows us life begins at conception. as pro-life people, we need to share this truth with women. point, being pro-life

is pro-woman because the pro-life movement affirms what is unique and special about every woman in all phases of her life. personally and professionally, as a daughter, mother, a sister, a single person, or a married woman. as a physician, i have seen the the segment of society that does the opposite. this does not affirm the dignity of women but convinces women that in order to be equal to men we need to be just like them, free to have sex without pregnancy. their livesed in professionally they need to delay having children or if they get pregnant, destroy their unborn baby. this does not empower women. it values -- devalues or -- what what the woman makes women unique. we need to share the fact about

their fertility. finally, being pro-life is pro-woman because the pro-life movement supports women who experience an unexpected pregnancy. it is critical for women to know they have real options that affirm their gift as women. this can make a difference how women choose life not only that often. let me close by sharing the stories of two young women. ich in their early 20's. changed their names to protect their privacy. anna was an immigrant who worked hard to earn money to send her family back home. lori was a college student with dreams of being a doctor like me. both of these women were my patients. they came to my health care centers fearing they might be testsnt and laboratory

confirmed it. the expressed shock and disbelief. reaction as she burst into tears saying she did not have the money to have a baby. nor could she afford to lose her job. laura reacted similarly even though she and her boyfriend had planned to get married and have a family, she was terrified that a baby would defer those dreams. it was my job to care for both patients, the mother and the baby. we will do everything to care for both of them and support the dreams of these women. i had conversations with their boyfriends. anna's boyfriend said he would do whatever he could. he wouldoyfriend said support what laura chose to do. they chose different things. anna chose to have her baby and sadly, lori chose to have an abortion. how did impact them? back a -- anna came

couple years later, happy as can be. she and her boyfriend had gotten married. they were making it work. broke up.er boyfriend the stress of her abortion was too great. she give up her dreams of being a doctor. these beautiful women in this beautiful woman and her baby fell victim to one of the great lies of society. abortion does not set a woman free. in summary, being pro-life is pro-woman because the pro-life movement shares the scientific truth with women. the pro-life movement affirms what is unique about women in all stages of her life and the movement supports women. being pro-life is pro-woman. thank you. >> ok. we are getting close to the end. stick with us.

up offe woman is made incredibly dedicated individuals who work day in and day out to build a culture of life in our country. i will start reading off some of the different organizations that will join me right now by their representative on stage. welcome honor to campaign for life, heritage action, heritage foundation, human life international, knights of columbus, march for life action, movie to movement, national committee for the human life amendment, national religious broadcasters, national right to life, online for life, priest for life, republican national committee, susan b the religious liberty commission, silent no more, students for life, traditional family property, pregnancy resource center of life,a, 40 days for alliance defending freedom,

american association of christian schools, american conservative union, americans united for life and then there were none, catholic university, center for ethics and culture, center for bioethics and human , the christian legal society, christian medical association, concerned women for forum, family research council, feminists for life, focus on the family, and thank you very much. [applause] we will ask you to exit quickly. thank you so much. [captions copyright national

cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> thank you very much. the marchers have a reputation for being very good citizens so if i could ask you to do not throw any trash on the ground, take your trash with you and put it in the receptacles. second, the knights of columbus from virginia will be collecting donations along constitution avenue. please be generous. we have some ominous snowflakes that are starting to fall here but before we begin our march i would like to close the rally in prayer and after prayer we will leadcaitlin james who will us in "god bless america." before we close i would ask you a greatme to the stage

pro-life leader, the president of the ethics and religious liberty commission of the southern baptist convention. dr. russell moore. >> lets pray together. lord, as we march today, we pray that we will not have to march for long. that our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren will not have to march for life because we pray that life will be protected and that life will be this land.ll over we pray for a day when this march will be unnecessary because this country will receive children not as burdens but as blessings, when this country will welcome and protect and we pray,is, lord, that we will receive all people regardless of stage of as madeon or disability in the image of god.

as we march we pray for confidence, confidence not in our numbers, our whole numbers, not in our strength, but in the confidence that the light shines in the darkness and the darkness the darkness will not, the darkness cannot overcome it. and lord, we are here of many faiths and some of no faith but i pray this in the name of my lord, jesus christ, amen. >> let's all hold hands as we " andg "god bless america bless our great nation. bless america stand beside her and guide her with the light from above from the mountains to the prairies

white with foam god bless america my home, sweet home god bless america ♪ home, sweet home god bless you. [applause] at the we take a look national debate over abortion from this morning's "washington journal." first, donna crane of

pro-choicearal america talks about two current supreme court cases that have to do with women's reproductive rights. then a look at plant parented -- .lanned parenthood's lawsuit we will hear from senator for -- and center for medical progress founder and later, several lawmakers share their thoughts on the 43rd anniversary of roe v wade from the senate floor earlier this week. is donnaus now crane, vice president for policy at naral pro-choice america. a couple supreme court cases coming up that involve abortion. what are they and what is naral's position? guest: there are two important cases. one pertains to abortion and the other is reproductive rights for

sure. the first case will have a look at the texas is law that some of your viewers might remember wendy davis made famous with her filibuster. the texas law closes abortion providers and a very deliberate way by imposing so many regulations on them that they cannot possibly stay in practice . the law has gone partially into effect and has closed more than half of the providers in texas. if it goes fully into effect, nk, lessll be, we thi than 10 abortion providers in the state. what happens with the supreme court case does not just affect texas women. it could have effect on women across the country. there are abortion bans with a softer name. the second case deals with contraception. you might recall the affordable care act make sure that every health care plan must add concert poster -- contraception

without an added cost. some people may remember the hobby lobby case. this is a second set of challenges. the question is here -- does your boss have a right to decide whether you the employee can have come to hous contraceptivee ar or not? host: let's go back to the texas case for a minute. is it unreasonable to say a medical provider needs to be licensed by a local hospital? guest: absolutely. not unreasonable to have safety regulations. as a medical procedure, abortion is regulated as any other procedure would be. there are plenty of state and federal laws that make sure health care safe. however, the texas law and similar ones across the country are actually targeted specifically at abortion providers and add regulations that are not in any way related to whether that care is safe.

thenumber of parking spaces clinic has, how big the janitors closet is, those kinds of things will not in any way enhance women's health or their safety. they are all about looking at what restrictions we abortion provider cannot possibly meet and then imposing them only on abortion providers with a full purpose of closing their doors. host: the second case -- the aca case. if you're going to work for thos the little sisters of the poor, don't you expect you would agree with their positions on issues? guest: actually, no. the little sisters of the poor are a good example because they employ people of all faith and no faith. the mission that they undertake serves people of all face and no faith. this is not a religious enterprise. this is very much a social service organization. we wholly respect the fact that the women themselves or a boss himself might have personal views about contraception.

we totally believe that they should be able to carry those beliefs out in their own personal life. i would be the first person defend a boss who says i do not agree with contraception. that is how you will carry about your personal life. we do not agree that in their capacity as a employer that if they are not a religious organization, and they are not. they are carrying out a secular mission. it is not right to impose those views on someone else. that is where the right of conscience ends. host: would you have a problem with the catholic church did not pay for contraception with their health care? guest: i think that's a very different question. if you're are looking at an explicitly religious organizations like a church, i think that's a different question. it's not even at issue here because the policy does already exempt churches. secularalking about organizations that hire people who might or might not agree with that. they are carrying out a secular social service system. if you are a nurse or a home

health care aide, you're not necessarily following the religious teachings of that employer. it is becoming a bigger issue by the way as catholic facilities are buying up more and more hospitals around the country, acquiring general hospitals and other kinds of hospitals. do we feel comfortable having them impose their beliefs on largest loss of employees and clients? host: have you ever attended the march for life? guest: inadvertently i have. i got caught in traffic in the best way to get out of it is to march. host: is there any middle ground between naral and a pro-life organization? guest: the american public is vastly pro-choice all th.

seven out of 10 americans want abortion to be safe and legal. what we find is that our opponents are not just antiabortion. if they were, they would actually agree with us that we can do a lot more in the area of contraceptive coverage and sex education to actually help prevent unintended pregnancies. it would therefore reduce the need for abortion. i feel very much that is where the common ground is and we certainly invite our opponents to join us there. we also believe that is where the vast majority of americans are. host: how did you get involved in this policy issue? guest: i've always been passionate about this issue. i remember be much younger and talking to my mom about it. i've never dream that someone in my generation would have to fight this fight. but here we are. it's an extremely important year. i do not think i've seen so much of that state -- so much at stake with a puzzled jewel -- the present selections -- presidential elections and the supreme court nominations coming

up. it's exciting time with a lot at stake. host: there's an article this morning and "the washington times." what it talked about is that younger women are more pro-life rather than pro-choice. " nancy keenan, the former naral president, saying she was troubled by the intensity gap between older women and millennials. she is saying that a lot of millennials are on the pro-life side. guest: that is certainly not accurate. the americanound the marylan league and anecdotally is that younger people are more pro-choice and more respectable of the diverse the of families we have in america and are more tolerant of lgbt writes and women's rights. we have seen a resurgence of

feminism in recent years, which is great news i as well. we do not agree that there is a generational issue. we find younger americans are more pro-choice. we find that younger americans care about a broad swath of issues. women like my mom's generation and older had personal expenses when abortion was illegal. that probably and prints you -- imprints you and a different way. it is not more or less, but different. i can tell you as someone who speaks to a lot of different rooms that i've never seen such intense interest on the part of young people. host: donna crane is our guest and is the vice president of naral pro-choice america. maureen in indianapolis is the first up. go ahead. now, murder is called a medical procedure.

--iewed that to our video that to our video where planned parenthood employees, doctors, etc. were drinking wine and eating lunch and discussing how they are going to harvest organs the best way. i can't think of anything more inhumane than 55 million unborn babies getting slaughtered by women like you. maybe the holocaust. no, it's worse than the holocaust. it is unbelievable. host: that is maureen in minneapolis. two issues there -- the use of the term murder, slaughter, and the videos that our next guest put out. guest: i certainly respect the fact that we disagree. in no way, shape, or form is legal abortion murder.

that is what we believe strongly . i would also comment that it's very important to understand that fetal tissue donation is a very important ethical and legal option for women who are ending pregnancies. fetal tissue has led to important advances in scientific research. this is entirely proper and legal and ethical. i'm proud to consider myself an ally of planned parenthood, which conducts proper health care services and meets the very highest standards of ethics and quality. we certainly disagree. host: dan is in new hampshire on the democrat line. you are on with donna crane of naral. caller: good morning. perhaps your guest could do a little tutorial on lady parts.

conception is an unobservable moment in time. it could come anywhere between copulation and six weeks when a woman realizes she is pregnant. for her rights on something that you don't even know is silly. if you outlaw abortion, you can always go to mexico where they investigate miscarriages. they prosecute women in mess carriages. -- miscarriages. peru,r instance in 11-year-old girl was forced to have a baby because they outlawed abortion. a separate question for you next guest and i hope that you do not let him slide on it -- the last caller talked about murder. how about the guy that shot up the clinic and repeated the next guest claimed that they were chopping up body parts? that is murder.

host: any response for that caller, donna crane? guest: thanks very much for the observation. i share your sense of dismay and irony that there are some on the other side who believe abortion is murder but also are prepared to use any means possible in exercising their rights. i think really the most isortant fact in this debate that without the right to control our own bodies and to make our own private decisions and our families on if and when to have children that women cannot participate fully in society. we cannot realize our full potential. families don't drive and communities don't thrive. is a slaves to our biology terrible thing to do and a progressive society. keeping abortion safe and legal and making sure contraception is widely available -- these are critical protections that we

have to keep in place if women are going to be full partners in society. that is the most important thing about this debate. host: hey ralph put out is -- naral put out a state-by-state report card on abortion rights. hy is it that hawaii gets na minus in a state like massachusetts gets a c plus? several states get an f. guest: we are very proud of this research c. some of the states may surprise you. some states may seem progressive, but their legislatures are not as progressive in the case of women's rights. we weigh the different laws on the books and states and we tally them up. there are some states that have what we call refusal laws, which allow for health-care corporations to refuse to provide certain services. other states have really progressive loss and we simply bounce them out. host: california is the only

state on your list to get an a plus. guest: that is right. as a california native, i'm very proud of that. host: bill is coming in from pittsburgh. caller: good morning. i'm calling because it have all spent the last 43 years basically watching two sets of extreme views, i would say extremist, talking past each other on this issue. that a woman should have the opportunity to plan when she would have her children. but at the same time, at some point, you do end up ending a human life. ask if your guest -- at what point during the just station process -- just station

gestation process does it become homicide? guest: i would never use the word homicide. the supreme court looked at this question when they issued the road the way decision in 1973. wade decision in 1973 and we agreed with the court in that time. the pregnancy involves the progression of life. atn a pregnancy is viable that point, the state has a greater interest in protecting the potential for life. decision says that states can restrict or ban abortion after that point. that is this basically the law of the land across the state today. women can only terminate pregnancies at that point if there's something in the pregnancy that threatens her life for her health. that is something we agree with you w,

we think that's a reasonable decision. it is also worth saying that the american public agrees. seven in 10 americans believe abortion should be safe and legal and that is the proper balance of rights. host: it was 43 years ago today that the roe v wade case was decided by the spring court. c-span put on a program called "weimar landmark cases," and one of the cases was the roe v wade case. because of the anniversary, we are replaying this "landmark cases: roe v wade" tonight at 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. arlene is on our washington, d c democrat line. caller: good morning. i want to make a comment. if i could, i will ask a question as well.

i find it surprising that there is even a debate about whether your employer can be involved in your reproductive rights. i would think it would be a can akin to be hired by naral and saying they had everyone on birth control and all the employees should have an abortion. of course that would not happen because naral is pro-choice. but that would be an employee or being involved in your abortion -- i'm sorry, in your reproductive rights. naral ison was if going to do a primary endorsement like planned parenthood did? thank you. guest: do you mean in the present election? caller: yes. guest: naral has proudly endorsed hillary clinton for president. yes, indeed. host: why? guest: first of all, let me say

that we are very lucky that we approaches -- fully pro-choice candidates on the democratic side. stake with the supreme court and all the restrictions that our opponents are trying to impose on reproductive freedom, we think it is very clear that hillary clinton stands head and shoulders above others on her commitment to this issue. she has always put women from center in our governing philosophy and she will be a leader on this issue as president. host: do you have to be pro-choice to work at naral? guest: that's a great question. i'm confident that everyone who works at naral is pro-choice come about perhaps the more interesting settle the is does everyone personally believe they might choose abortion if they were confronted with that question? that is really the difference between us and the other side. we actually would support a woman who makes that decision. just as fiercely

support a woman who says that is not the decision i will make for myself, but i'm not prepared to let anyone else make that decision for me. so yes, probably pro-choice, but your views on abortion and your family are your own. host: does naral receive federal money? guest: no, naral does not receive federal money. host: what is your relationship with planned parenthood? guest: we are proud to stand as an ally with planned parenthood as our sister organization. host: but separate? guest: totally separate. host: is it necessary for planned parenthood to receive federal money? guest: absolutely. land parenthood is one of the most important, respected, and vital providers of women's health services in the whole country and they are absolutely essential to the net worth of health care that i'm a content available to them. akron, on thein independent line. go ahead, sir. caller: a couple of comments.

she needs to understand that if you say your progressive or living in a progressive society, that's euphemism for communism for starts. i also want to ask her, but you took my question in front of me. i want to know how they are funded if not funded federally? is ay planned parenthood great provider for women's health care, all they do is an abortion factory. they do not do anything else. there are no mammograms. all they are is an abortion factory. they charge women money and then get money for the aborted fetuses. to stand there and say that is what you stand for is great. i think you're right to choose is fine, but i do not want to have federal government pay for it. i'm glad to look at your report card and see that georgia has an

f. host: why are you against abortion? the second part of that question the play devil's advocate -- why do you feel you have a right to tell a woman she cannot have an abortion? caller: i did not mention that at all. i said everyone does have a right to choose. my issue is having the federal government subsidize it. host: thank you, sir. i apologize for mischaracterizing your statement. guest: thank you very much for your comments. i appreciate the fact that you are pro-choice. yourfraid to say that characterization of planned parenthood services simply is not true. i have applied to planned parenthood for contraceptive services. the vast majority of what planned parenthood does is preventive health care. they are also a proud abortion provider, but that is not factually accurate. the reason they are so vital is because this is where women can go for not only abortion services, but for contraceptive services. we should all agree that is vitally important whatever side

of the abortion question we are on. to the question of federal funding, we will simply have to disagree about that. abortion is a constitutional right. it's a uniquely important havece that women need to available. without it, we cannot participate fully in society. the supreme court looked at that question and said it's that important. constitutional rights do not depend on how much money you make in this country or where you get your health insurance. some women do get the health insurance through the government. it is just not appropriate than for politicians to step in and say, well, we will support the service but not that service. that is a two-tiered system where rich women get access to some kind of health care and other women don't. that is, i think, fundamentally un-american and i hope you will reconsider that. host: how is naral funded? guest: with private donations

and foundations. host: harry in iowa, a republican. ander: good morning thank you for c-span. thank you for having the program today on the national right to life. i hope that god is with everybody in the east coast as we face this blizzard and that everyone remains safe. i am a charter member of lutherans for life. i was an ordained pastor. having a troubled pregnancy and the doctor said to come in and just have the products of conception removed.

daughterour child, our five months and her mother's womb. receive ourable to child's body for burial because it was a product of conception. i'm a charter member of lutherans for life and kansas right to life. i was serving at a parish and kansas. i had anorward to now, invitation to visit with pope francis. sentutheran church president matthew harrison to washington, d.c. host: let's wrap this up and make your final statement. caller: i was in d.c. with senator grassley and senator cruz on pro-life work. a pro-choice man and his wife ,ook me and my daughters

kidnapped me and attempted to shoot me an stab me. i'm a witness protection. host: we are going to leave your comments there. the march for life is today. atwill be live online c-span.org. you will be able to watch it later on the air. it will be live online at c-span.org. maryland democrats lives. caller: good morning, peter. this drives me crazy. i'm a 79-year-old woman who was married and had four children and for live births. i lost a husband to domestic violence and he deserted our children. i moved to another state and refused to pay child support. i raise two jobs to pay for my children. i get so angry when i hear men calling up in men most of the

time when there's a pregnancy, they don't take any responsibility for them. they desert their girlfriends and then the woman has to make a decision. no woman wakes up in the morning and decides she's gone to change her haircolor and have an abortion. when did women's reproductive rights become a political football? i get so sick of men. you don't get pregnant. you don't carry children. you don't give birth. i get so sick of men every time the subject comes up in most of the calls this morning have come from men. this is not the 17th century. we are not the property of our fathers. we are smart. we are independent. we are courageous. e and we have a right to make our own decision. it is a decision between a woman, her god, and her doctor . the bible says we all stand before god to be judged.

thank you very much. guest: thanks for a for your courage and your comments. it is no surprise that i wholeheartedly agree that pregnancy and the decision around pregnancy, especially unplanned pregnancies, but profoundly impact women and their ability to participate fully in society and to raise healthy families. this is a profoundly personal and fundamental ability to the whole people. it's a decision that has to reside with us and whomever we choose to consult. thank you for your bravery. host: does the father in your view have a right to opinion or voice and it comes to having an abortion? guest: i absolutely believe that women should consult with their partners if that is appropriate for them. in many cases, that is exactly what happens. in some cases, it's not. i believe that when women make that decision about whom to consult, they are wise about it.

they know who is going to give them good advice. at the end of the day, the decision has to be there's -- has to be theirs. host: wasn't that recently a frozen embryo case? what did you think of the outcome of that case? onst: i would rather comment what i find most interesting about that case. right to life organizations step in and try to influence whether the embryos were preserved or not. i find that very fascinating because it tells me that those organizations are not just antiabortion. is trying to about influence families to shape them to look only the way they feel comfortable. i do not think anyone among us or certainly anyone reasonable among us would believe that a frozen as embryo is akin to murder. this is about controlling how families choose to grow. that is a space that no other person should have a right to get into. host: what is naral doing today

while the march is going on at the mall? guest: there are members of congress making floor statements, but mostly we are busy organizing and communities across the country and looking forward to the spring court cases coming up this year and organizing for the president will race. -- thenterested presidential race. host: helene, texas. caller: it is now oklahoma. don't ever apologize because you do not misinterpret the statement of that man's said. -- that that man said. you had every right to say what you have to say because he is dead wrong. andust shows his ignorance the uneducated populace. that first woman who called him, o my lord, please, lady. why don't you go to one of those clinics and inform yourself

first of all? i would advise all those people for the right to life, go ahead, go to the hospitals, and comfort those babies who are born to addicted mothers, all right? become foster parents to all those unwanted children that are being born, all right? cry overand more and the cousin of the child that has and abused and neglected dies a miserable, horrible death. i will tell you. in oklahoma, that occurs on a daily basis. crane, for you, miss your call demeanor even if you are being called a murderer. you are the perfect vice president for your organization because, yes, indeed, they do offer health care. the health care system is so broken in the united states, even though i president has been trying hard. kil: all right, and either

, it's time for cynthia. go ahead with your question or comment for donna crane of naral. caller: i have three questions that take about 15 seconds. there are one million people who would like to adopt children. my second question is what percentage of abortions save the life of the mother? the third question is do you believe that a fertilized egg is a person if left alone to develop? host: before we get donna crane's answer, do you believe that a fertilized egg is a person is left to develop? caller: sure. host: but why?

caller: they become a person. it's common sense. host: donna crane? guest: i will take them in reverse order. i believe a fertilized egg has the potential to become a person. i believe it is not a fully developed person. abortions thatof are necessary for the life of the woman is very small. for the health of the woman, it's larger. for all the other reasons that woman would feel strongly that at that moment in time that she cannot bring a child into the world, it is much larger than that. i enthusiastically support adoption services. naral would be the first organization to defend them if they were under attack the way legal abortion is under attack. as a woman feel strongly that is the course she wants to choose, if she has a planned or unplanned pregnancy, we applaud her and we defend that right. host: the next call for donna

crane comes from jerry and george appeared -- in georgia. you are on "washington journal." caller: thank you a much. i want to make a comment and i have a question. the comment is that i grew up in a baptist church in south georgia. they get all riled up about wastion, but the church within rockthrowing distance of children living in dire poverty and they would do nothing about it. my question is why did the european countries and other civilized countries not have this problem? guest: that's a great question. thank you very much. i'm afraid that i do not feel like i have a lot of expertise about the european countries and how they approach this issue. that i'veknow is experienced a lot of what you have observed. i'm i see sorry to hear that about your local church. lots ofe certainly church that do the opposite and

take good care of people living in poverty. that said, it's really distressing that the people on the other side of this debate so frequently seem to think that there is a right to life until birth. after that, you're on your own. these are the people that do not step forward and urge the government to spend more money or, let's say, the appropriate amount of money for education and health care and programs that would actually helped lift poor children and families out of poverty. there is a real hypocrisy there and it is really distressing. host: what did you think of the iden andhat david dela his group put out about fetal tissue sales with planned parenthood? guest: i did watch all the videos. i think certainly any kind of explicit talk about medical procedures is difficult to watch. it seems quite clear now that the videos were doctored.

we have not seen the full context. it has been pretty thoroughly to accredited -- discredited, which seems like a what -- it was intended to do. i think our opponents for years have wanted to try to bar planned parenthood for participating in many health care programs. this seems like another piece of ammunition in that battle. host: you referred to the pro-life movement as opponents. again, we are going to go back that there are two sides with no shared space. guest: i think there is shared space. andink that mr. delaiden his colleagues are the fringe of that movement. when you talk to most americans, they believe that abortion should be safe and legal and we could be doing a lot more to help women with health care and information so that we can prevent as much as possible the need for abortion. there will always be a need for

the abortion and we will defend it. we have an unusually high pregnancy rate and there's more we can do about that co. host: please go ahead with your question or comment for donna crane of naral. caller: how are you doing? good morning. and i'mndependent pretty much a progressive. i'm a fiscal conservative. pro-choice. i think that's a no-brainer. i do not think anybody should have the right to tell another human being what they can do with her body and with their own property. if i paint a picture and i want to take it into my backyard and burn it in a pile, that's my right to do so. i cannot go to my neighbor's house and take their painting off the wall and burn it. that is against the law.

but i should be able to do whatever i want with my own property. pro-choice, no-brainer. i also heard your guest, you asked the guest if her organization was backing a candidate for president. she said yes, hillary clinton. then you asked her why, and she kind of hesitated for quite a while. but i think it is obvious the reason she is backing hillary clinton is because hillary clinton is a woman. i am for women's rights 100%. but she said feminist them is -- them and is having a resurgence and she thought that was a great thing. maybe in some respects, it is. i think a lot of feminist today are different from the feminist of before. to remember many of the feminist from the 1950's,

1960's, and 1970's. are going to leave it there and get a response from donna crane. guest: let me clarify the record. there is no hesitation whatsoever. we are probably supporting hillary clinton for president. her gender does not especially make a difference. it is the leadership she has shown throughout -- throughout her life. she has made women central to her philosophy and we believe she will be a leader on this issue and gender does not matter much one way or the other. host: you said all three democratic candidates you can see supporting. guest: they are all pro-choice, which is a great thing to have happen. i would love to see pro-choice candidates on the republican side. that is not the case this year, but i would love to see that. , this is what she puts on her twitter feed. asks the question, explain

the double side -- double homicide issue please. guest: i could guess at what that might mean. it is possible what she is referring to is a series of laws in which when a woman who is pregnant is harmed there are considered to be two independent legal victims of that crime. we fully believe when a pregnant woman is harmed, that is worse and the penalty should reflect that additional severity, the brutality of that crime. we don't believe there are two legal victims in that case because primarily those types of laws are offered by our opponents as they are looking to change the legal foundation of abortion rights by creating what we might call personhood rights and creating legal tension. we believe those crimes should

be punished fully. but we don't believe they should abortiontangled in the debate which is what happens we identify a second legal person. host: when a man decides to tell you his view on abortion, does he have a right? guest: definitely. he is an american citizen or a world citizen. he has the right to an opinion. does he have the right to have his view supersede mine if i'm making a personal decision? no, a woman does not either. democrat,yn, chicago, you have the last word with donna crane. caller: good morning and thank you. profession, with any tissue the donor has to sign a release. in the catholic hospital, you have a choice.

you went out and found another place to have an abortion. i witnessed women getting abortions in the alleys coming into us and dying. i am so sad to hear all of this stuff being brought up again. malelso, what happens to contraception? thank you. host: evelyn, before you hang a, could you explain what you meant by your medical profession? what was your position? caller: i am a registered nurse. i came to chicago to take the specialty. i entered the hospice unit. i have 45 years of all of this. host: prior to 1973, and in 1973 you were 41 years old, had you -- what experience had you had seeing the results?

where did women go for so-called illegal abortions at that time? alleys, a lot of them came to the alleys. host: do you mean a doctor who would do that or somebody who was not a doctor? caller: this was all illegal. i don't know. a midwife? i have no idea. we used to have quite a few of those. host: that is evelyn in chicago. guest: thank you very much for your courage. host: donna crane is the vice president for policannouncer: "" continues. host: david daleiden is the founder of center for medical progress. what is that group? guest: it is an organization of citizen journalists. we monitor and report on medical advances with a special emphasis on bioethical issues that impact human dignity. host: you are known for the

so-called planned parenthood tapes. guest: i am. host: are you antiabortion or pro-life? guest: i am a proud pro-lifer. host: where did you get the idea of interviewing planned parenthood people about fetal tissue? released the time we the first tape, it had been about 15 years since the issue of baby parts trafficking had been part of the national discourse. there was a seminal exposé done on that particular topic in 1999-2000. unfortunately, it kind of got buried in the mainstream media at that time. i first found out about that about five years ago. i was really struck by this paradox i feel is at the heart of it. on the one hand in our country, the baby fetus, their humanity is not considered to be equal to our own in order to be totally protected by the law from being killed by abortion.

but at the same time, it is precisely that humanity of theirs that is completely identical to our own that makes them so valuable for scientific extermination and makes planned parenthood and their business partners and researchers hunt after their body parts like very treasured. -- buried treasure. host: are fetal tissue sales legal? guest: for profit body parts sales of any kind are not legal. host: cecile richards, because of the tapes, this is what she had to say. [video clip] >> planned parenthood has been in the news because of deceptively released videos by a group dedicated to making abortion illegal in this country. this is just the most recent in a long line of discredited attacks over the last 15 years. the latest smear campaign is based on efforts by our opponents to entrap our doctors and clinicians into breaking the

law. and once again, our opponents failed. to set the record straight, i want to be clear on four matters. first, using fetal tissue in life-saving medical research is legal according to the 1993 law 93-4 and the senate based on recommendations from a blue-ribbon panel created under the reagan administration. second, currently less than 1% of planned parenthood health centers are facilitating the donation of tissue for research. third, indo centers donating fetal tissue is something many of our patients want to do and regularly request. finally, planned parenthood allah sees not only comply with but go beyond requirements of the law. the outrageous accusations leveled against planned parenthood based on heavily doctored videos are offensive and categorically untrue.

host: david daleiden, cecile richards, president of planned parenthood, was talking about you. guest: she was. one of the main talking points for planned parenthood has been the videotapes are heavily edited or "deceptively edited." in this case, she came out with what they really mean to insinuate that we have doctored what is being said. , we haved of the day been more transparent than any mainstream media organization in the way these were produced. we have put out full conversations with top level everyone can compare the full conversations to the highlight some reversions we present and see for themselves --summary versions we present and see for themselves. throughout the four points she mentioned, not once did she deny

any of the statements on the video are made by planned parenthood senior-level leadership. we did not put those words in their mouths. those are their own words captured on video for everyone to see. host: did it hurt your legitimacy to go in under false pretenses and edit the tapes in the first place? guest: i don't think so. every news report you will watch on tv, even a live broadcast, is in some way edited or produced to make it more easily presentable for the public. i think most people realize that. most americans think undercover work is important part of law enforcement and journalism. it is an important part of life and discourse. host: how did you get involved in this issue? guest: with abortion specifically with the baby parts issue? host: however you want to answer that? ?

guest: i have probably an eight or nine years of experience doing investigative journalism type work with a focus on the abortion industry and planned parenthood. i have encountered the baby parts issue specifically about five years ago for the first time. i do think there is something about it that is particularly disturbing to people and also throws into stark relief our underlying -- the underlying conflicts the regime of abortion on demand we have in america now presents to some of our core american and human values of human dignity and equality. i am a proud millennial. we grew up in school learning about the history of slavery in america and how there is a dark stain on our history where people used to be part -- bought and sold in our country. you turn around and see companies buying baby parts from planned parenthood. even sometimes turning around

and selling entire fetal cadavers, and people are still being bought and sold in america today because of that. i think that is a contradiction to the values we hold dear and something most americans don't support. host: you are a graduate of claremont mckenna college in california. are you from california originally? guest: yes. host: is this a religious issue for you? guest: i don't think so. my friend and a representative recently authored an op-ed in "time" magazine. thehe end of the day, pro-life movement and our position on abortion is not a religious movement and is not necessarily a political movement. this is a movement about love and compassion for other human beings and for the smallest human beings, for the human fetus. in most states, fetal homicide laws are on the books. in almost every situation, the human fetus is considered equal to another person. , andnly exception for that

most constitutional scholars would agree is a big equal protection violation, the only exception is in the case of legalized abortion. host: david daleiden, are you in favor of outlawing all abortions? of,t: what i am in favor and i have to be a little careful because we don't do model legislation or legislation advocacy. behink the ideal law would similar to laws on the books before roe versus wade. host: david daleiden, center for medical progress, is our guest. final question. i have to follow up on that. what were those laws? guest: the laws in most states before roe versus wade criminalized doctors who would perform abortions, by which they meant feticide, anything that

would intentionally kill a fetus. there were always exceptions for the life and health of the mother. it is interesting. those laws were made exceptions -- made clear that women would never be prosecuted in those situations. it was criminalizing the conduct of unethical medical providers who would do abortions. host: let's take some calls. joseph is calling from fort lauderdale, florida, on our independent line. joseph, you are on with david daleiden. caller: good morning to both of you. let me start off by saying i am a father of two. i raised my teat of children by myself. their mother had mental issues. i raised my kids by myself for 16 years. life, valuey entire the life of children.

i wanted to ask a question. i did not get an answer from the lady earlier. if a murder is committed when a lady is pregnant, you get charged with two murders, right? if so, what is the difference if you have an abortion? isn't that murder? host: david daleiden. guest: sure. my understanding is i think in thereimately 40 states are fetal homicide laws on the books that do make it equally criminal homicide if you kill a fetus in the process of an assault on a print woman or you kill a pregnant woman and kill the woman and unborn baby, that you can be charged with two murders or fetal homicide. the bourneral level, life protection act also provides the same equal protections to unborn children in all stages of gestation. host: diane is in tennessee.

she is a democrat. please go ahead with your question or comment for david daleiden. caller: good morning. incest ands with rape? you said you are right for life. there are babies starving. people have been killed who are already here. you are not saying anything about that. there are little children everyday killing children. do you say anything? no. you are sitting up there now. you don't have to carry that child. thank you very much. host: david daleiden. guest: sure. for the first question about rape and incest, i think everyone has a lot of compassion for any person who is a survivor of asexual assault. thing a pregnancy

in that situation creates is that if there was a way to do an abortion without killing a baby, i think nobody would have a problem with what is going on. at the end of the day, that is the problem. i don't think anybody wants to punish someone whether they are a woman who is a survivor of an attack or a child completely innocent. nobody wants to punish them for something that is not their fault. as to the second issue, my concern and other pro-life americans' concern about unborn children compared to our concern for other children in bad circumstances, i think if we cannot have compassion for and respect for and protect the smallest and most innocent children, there is no way we are going to be able to effectively take care or have that same concern for those who are in more difficult -- less-than-perfect situations or less than innocent situations. i think compassion begins with

the very smallest and the ones who are so tiny there's nothing they could do to oppress us in any way. if we cannot have compassion for them, we will not be able to have compassion for bigger people. i believe there was a third issue, but i have forgotten it. host: i wrote down the first two as well. i apologize. guest: the third was something along the lines of i am a man and will never carry a pregnancy. i was a fetus. i have the child of a crisis pregnancy situation. my parents got pregnant with me their junior year of college and got married after graduation. there were people who said i should be aborted. i'm here today because their voices did not win the day. i think at the end of the day, abortion -- is not totally correct to say does a woman's issue because it is a human issue. host: is there any middle ground?

that is the question we asked donna crane earlier. between the pro-life and pro-choice position? guest: i think there is middle onund in a political sense what sort of policies we are going to have. i think it is clear from pulling data and testing the attitudes of the ever -- average american that most americans are not in of abortion being practiced in situations where it is most commonly practiced. most americans are ok with abortion to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest. in most other cases, most americans do not favor abortion. most americans are in favor of no abortion after three months of pregnancy. that means no abortion in the second or third trimester. i think there is a lot of room

for commonsense policies like that where we can move forward as a country. unfortunately, we are largely prohibited from enacting a lot of those policies because of the row versus wade supreme court decision that persists even though in many ways the precedent is unsettled and we will see interesting things happening at the high court in their future. --in the near future. for the past 43 years, there has been an institutional barrier for democratically grappling with that common ground. host: lara is in pennsylvania, republican line. go ahead. caller: thanks for c-span. i want to applaud david for your courage. you have had to go through amazing, scandalous remarks about what you have done tearingng the unjust apart of unborn babies.

but doing it in a specific way to harvest their organs. for planned parenthood to say youhave doctored the tapes, did not put numbers like the liver is going to get so much, manipulating the procedure to get the highest value is disgusting. the person who said what about those innocent, babies who were the product of that, they are not rate this -- rapists. their fathers were rapists. i know two people who had repressed -- rapist fathers whose mothers in them up for abortion. you should not have to abort the baby because of the way it was conceived. guest: it has been interesting that it has been six months since cmp started releasing the first undercover tapes.

planned parenthood has yet to tell us how much money they have received from companies like stem express in exchange for harvesting fetal tissue. they have yet to explain why one of the chief medical officers was endorsing a stem expressed advertisement for financial benefits to the clinic. they have yet to explain why their senior director of medical services was talking about flipping a baby on ultrasound to harvest more intact fetal organs. the talking point from planned parenthood that the tapes are edited, by which they mean to insinuate they are doctored, is a disingenuous talking point in an attempt to distract what is on the tapes because they cannot deny what is there. host: since you started releasing tapes, are there more tapes coming out? guest: there definitely are. there is a large body of footage from the national abortion federation annual meetings under a tro in a court case now, they

temporary restraining order. host: is that because of the planned parenthood suit against your organization? guest: that suit predates the planned parenthood suit. it is a little different but a lot of similar allegations and issues in play. there are more planned parenthood tapes as well. there is no injunction or tro against those so some are being prepared for production and presentation. host: did you participate in any of the undercover interviews? guest: i did. host: were you with the woman from planned parenthood or somebody else? guest: in most of the tapes we have released so far, i was present for those interviews as one of the undercover actors. there are a few older tapes were i was not one of the actors. but for most of them, i was present. host: adam is in easton, pennsylvania, independent line. i amr: i would like to say amazed in 2016 we are still having this debate about what

someone can and cannot do with their on body. i find with groups like your guest, they are more than willing to tell you what you can and can't do, but as soon as you tell them what they can and can't do, they are up in arms. we have to understand women have a choice to do what they want. if i had told this gentleman what he could do or could not do with his body, i'm sure he would fight me tooth and nail. we have to understand abortion nowadays is not something that is accepted as a whole but sometimes is a necessity, and it is your right to have access to that necessity. ultimately, what does it matter to these people that are fighting for this issue? host: adam, sorry. thought you were finished. david daleiden? guest: it is interesting. if you choose to look at abortion only as an issue of what someone does with their own think you are

necessarily going to be ok with the for-profit sale of baby body parts because those just part of the woman's body anyway? and so there should not be a problem with on the hearts and lungs and livers of unborn children. i think what the guest is saying is out of step with what the majority of americans believe. all of usircumstance, have limitations on what we are able to do in a society where we live together and have to get along. the really extreme pro abortion position he is staking out would permit abortion -- abortion up to nine months of pregnancy, which is permitted in states like colorado and new mexico. it really cuts against the grain of what the public is comfortable with. i don't think that is a winning talking point or issue for the abortion industry. in please guy tweets

ask david daleiden why not one federal, state, or local agency has found wrongdoing at planned parenthood. guest: i don't know that is correct they have not found wrongdoing. it is correct to say there have not been indictments filed or full on prosecutions yet. there are ongoing state, federal, and local criminal investigations. we will see what comes of those in the next year. host: when will we get more from these court cases? are they in the discovery mode right now? the lawsuits. guest: those cases are at different places right now. it is a little complicated. they are probably not likely to yield anything quickly. i think the timeline is going to be stretched out for both of them. whetherainly i do think more information comes out through the select committee congressional investigation or through some state and local

criminal investigations or through the discovery process and litigation process of the lawsuits ongoing, i think you will start to see in the next year a lot more primary source document type evidence corroborating a lot of what was on our videotapes. host: what is posted on your website? posted are the full media release videos cmp has put out so far, both the summary highlight versions and full footage of those conversations that went into the highlight versions. we also have a document vault that has a lot of primary source documents we received from whistleblowers and others who work inside the abortion industry. also, that we gathered at different industry trade shows. there are a few other pages of a blog with press releases and contact forms. things like that. host: how are you funded? guest: we are a nonprofit, tax-exempt recognized by the i.r.s. we are funded by donations from

the public who has been generous so far. host: is there a timeline for any tapes to be released? are they all under restrictive order now? guest: the only tapes under restrictive order of those specifically from the national abortion federation's annual meeting in 2014 and 2015. the national abortion federation is the trade organization of abortion providers in the united states. another, thatly would be 40% of the footage we gathered in the two and half years of the project. we have released approximately 20% of the significant footage so far. there's probably another 30% of footage unreleased now. we are working on producing that now. host: would we see that in the next couple of months? guest: definitely. host: db, democrat, go ahead. caller: i am an old lady.

i have had experience with this issue, personal experience. what strikes me is women have the power, and that is what the men resent, that women have the power to decide whether they want to have a child or not. i think they should have the power. i wonder about this fetal tissue stuff. does it have any value? these youngdn't girls giving up their fetal tissue, shouldn't they get the money? thank you. host: phoebe, are you still with us? caller: i am. i know it sounds like a nazi. but on the other hand, when i had my abortion, the someone wanted to buy the body parts, i would have said fine. i needed the money then. i had my abortion a long time ago. you don't really have to go to a doctor. that is what i learned because

there were not anyone i did it myself. host: before roe v wade? caller: absolutely. it was a most in the last century now. it is a shame. it is a real shame women are put in this position of having to go to some higher authority when they are taken care of themselves at a very emotional time. host: david daleiden, what do you hear from her? guest: i'm going to strike out a little bit on a limb on this one. orhink people watching listening this conversation can hear some of the pain in her voice talking about that experience, talking about all of the stigma that goes into unintended pregnancy, some of the fear, the need for a solution to try to get out of that situation. i think that is something we all need to be honest about and need to have a lot of compassion for that kind of situation.

it is not just men. pro-life men and women and men and women across this country, i don't think we resent but are horrified by the idea that any person can choose another person lives or dies. and that any person could go on to sell the body parts of that person who we are choosing to kill or not kill. at the not just rhetoric end of the day when we talk about the humanity of the unborn baby and what that means. you want to talk about the value of fetal tissue for research or extermination. what about the value of the human fetus in all of his or her integrity as a human being? you can say harvest the brain, keep the brain intact so you don't destroy it. planned parenthood will get $75 that specimen. $700 andess might get some researcher will use it for a study. how much more valuable with that beef it was kept in the child and the baby was allowed to live

and contribute to society? i don't think any of us are doing and have ourselves a service if we deny that real, physical reality. i think that comes through in the pain you hear in the voices of people like phoebe who have been through that experience. there is an expense we have to be honest with. otherwise, we will never heal and be comfortable as a country. host: it was 43 years ago the roe v wade decision was decided by the supreme court. this past fall, c-span did a series of landmark cases that this country has faced. we finished up with the roe v wade case. we are going to re-air the program tonight at 630 -- 6:30. it looks at the history and the result. 6:30 tonight on c-span.

richie in butler, kentucky, republican line. caller: how are you doing today? i want to thank the gentleman for what he is doing. of this newpart generation of christian leadership is worrying more about selling the next book on how to feel good about these things. 78% of americans claim to be christians. yet they sit silently while all these things go on. but they say it is the law of the land. we are the law of the land. in a democratic society, we vote. we don't allow people to stand by and say that. ministers today sitting at home worrying about the next lines they are going to read on the pulpit next week. they are not on the steps of the supreme court fighting these things. thank you for listening to me. keep up the good work. maybe the christians of america will finally wake up. host: anything for that caller? guest: i hear a feeling a lot of

american share now, that there is a crisis in leadership. maybe in spiritual leadership. i am a catholic and a follower of post francis -- pope francis. pope francis has spoken out several times about the issue of fetal tissue trafficking and has had strong words about that. i think it goes hand-in-hand with his emphasis on the importance of compassion and mercy, even for people in difficult situations, and showing that by accompanying people in difficult situations. america is a great enough country that we have been able to put men on the moon. i think we can find better solutions to unexpected pregnancies than the violence of abortion. host: patrick tweets in to you, cmp is partially funded through 501 tax-free status but fights

against the use of tax money for planned parenthood. guest: i am not sure i completely understand the question or objection. it is true cmp is a 501(c)(3). it is true we think planned parenthood is engaged in a lot of unethical and illegal activities that ought to be investigated and prosecuted and perhaps remedied by a loss of federal taxpayer dollars. i don't see a contradiction in those two statements. organsf i donate my after death, is that selling body parts? guest: no, donations are not a sale. what is supposed to be allowed, the way things are supposed to work, is you are allowed to donate your organs or tissues. nobody is supposed to be making money off your body parts. that is where the problem comes in. host: mike is calling in from akron. caller: i'm glad you and i have two things in common.

we are both catholic and pro-life. we differ in one main way. my definition of pro-life may not be the same as your definition of pro-life. as an historian of the catholic church, i realize the catholic church is one of the reasons why so many europeans came to this country centuries ago because of its repressive ways towards the people. thank god the catholic church has changed his attitude in many ways. i think the pro-life as somebody who i don't care what your views are on abortion or guns as long as you don't go around killing other people. you may not be the best example of pro-life, but you are pro-life enough for me. here is my question. i know a catholic. he and his wife go to church every week. they would never have an abortion but they believe a woman has a right to choose like me. if my friend went into a burning building, same people, two kids

in his arms, could you look him in the eye and say i am pro-life and you are not? guest: sure. i don't think it is pro-life to be in favor of abortion on demand up to nine months of pregnancy, selling the body parts for profit afterwards. rding to anybody's definition. i think if you support activities like that, it is a huge contradiction to any other area in your life when you're claiming to respect human beings or value their dignity. i think it puts you on a slippery slope as to whether you're going to be able to continue to extend that same compassion to other people. it is a deliciously vague phrase when people talk about the right to choose because we are talking about a spectrum of nine months of pregnancy, all kinds of different development of the unborn baby going on, and all kinds of different factors and outcomes that can crop up off of that, like selling body parts for profit afterwards.

i get a little impatient with a lot of the word games coming from planned parenthood or their allies because i don't think it is very honest. host: jenny is in tallahassee, florida, democrats line. caller: yes. i have a proposal that is a middle ground proposal and also a question for you. order toal is that in make all of this argument moot, why don't we enact a law that we identify the fathers of each of these children that women are pregnant with? that the fathers will be required to pay half of the medical costs and the cost of while theythe women

are carrying these babies, that they pay half of the cost of raising these children. and the children be required to be raised at the same level the men and women are living. they also are required to take care of any medical costs and costs of anything that involve most children while they are -- those children while they are growing up. and also, my question to you is, do you have any children out there that you are not taking care of? host: that was jenny in tallahassee. mr. daleiden. guest: that is a great comment and question. i think her proposal is excellent from a policy standpoint. i think it is something people could creatively build on. as to the question, i don't have

any children. i think the broader take away from her question and comment, it is interesting to me that if you insist on making abortion only a women's issue, you're kind of making unintended pregnancy only a woman's problem and obviating any kind of male responsibility for those situations even though there is a lot of mail responsibility for those situations, or maybe we should say irresponsibility. host: have you ever had a friend who wanted to get an abortion? did you accompany her? did she talk to you about it? do you know anybody who has had an abortion? guest: i know a lot of people who have lots of different expense of abortion in their lives. people who are survivors of abortion, people who have had abortions themselves, people who have considered abortion. definitely.

i have yet to meet someone who this really honestly say was a happy part of my life and something i grew up wanting to do. nobody treats it that way. i think that says something about what it really is. host: the path you have taken in this professional path you have taken, what has it done to you in a personal way? take that question and see what you can do with it. know, i say you sometimes i am the product of the public school system in the state of california, which my kind of surprised people. gravew up learning about human rights injustices of the past, slavery, the holocaust, and also the brave people who fought against them in the civil rights movement and the underground railroad.

i remember always thinking, wouldn't you want to be one of the people? if you lived in a time like that when something like that was going on, wouldn't you want to be one of the people who stood up and said this was wrong and shout it from the rooftops -- shouted from the rooftops? if you realized it was going on today, wouldn't you want to be one of those people who is different? that kind of brings me to now. is in aransas pass, texas, republican line. please go ahead with your question or comment for david daleiden from the center for medical progress. caller: yeah. it has been my experience that no matter what i believe, the truth had the power to change what i believed. every time i have run into the truth with a powerful belief, i got knocked down hard. i want to ask you, is there any aborted babies that will be children brought to jesus? host: a religious issue for him,

a christian issue for him. guest: i guess i am not sure if i know how to answer or that i'm qualified to answer. i am not a priest, and i am not a spiritual authority. i don't know that i can make that judgment. every singlek aborted child, and i have encountered aborted children in planned parenthood's we visited, it is a really different, moving experience. some planned parenthood medical directors have written about it themselves and that is something we share in common with them. every single one of them is someone who was a human being, who was valuable exactly as they were. we would have loved them whoever they would have been. she tweets into you that you even stall someone's miscarriage video pretending it

was from planned parenthood. guest: that is not true. i think she is referring to some b roll footage filmed of a born alive infant at approximately a 19-week abortion. one of the interesting things i learned in the course of the undercover work we did, talking with lots of planned parenthood medical directors, lots of different abortion providers, is that in the practice of second trimester abortion, it is not unheard of and not uncommon that you sometimes, depending on the patient's individual characteristics and how they respond to the procedures, it is not uncommon you might have a precipitous delivery before the procedure begins and have the fetus come out intact and you have a born alive infant on your hands. it does not happen every day or every time. it is something that is not unusual. i think that argues for a lot more strict oversight and scrutiny for the abortion industry. host: last call for david

daleiden comes from todd in beachwood, ohio, independent line. caller: i would like to know if you would consider this as a possible alternative to people even getting into this -- the situation of being in an unplanned pregnancy. if the government and planned parenthood in your group worked to build and intensify programs in the taxpayer-funded neighborhood public schools that taught the actual cost of bringing a child -- bringing a pregnancy from conception all the way up to the year 18 in various counties. for includes medical costs going through the pregnancy, the cost of raising a child in the different areas where the individual may be, and giving them incentive to learn what it to get the kids in the schools to understand that as well.

our country is built on the strength of our families. our country is built on the strength of the direction of our families. if you want to keep people from getting abortions, ideally you want to keep them from getting into unplanned pregnancies. that is the best way -- host: i think we got the idea. guest: i think that is an excellent proposal. i think you might have difficulty getting planned parenthood on board with that because the model does not encourage a lot of communication about those issues and strengthening of social ties. planned parenthood is about breaking down social ties and seeing people as individual automatons whether or not those connections. it does remind me of a talking point some people put out to say planned parenthood does more than any other organization to prevent unintended pregnancies because it puts out so much contraception or birth control. if you look at planned parenthood's own numbers in their annual report, according to their own estimates, the

number of abortions they prevent per year is around 200,000. but they do over 300,000 abortions every year. planned parenthood does more abortions than they prevent every year. host: david daleiden, are you "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. this week we heard members of ongress share their thoughts the 43rd anniversary of row v.

wade. of what was said from the senate floor beginning with oklahoma senator james langeford. families. americans are kind of particular about our families. we love our families a understan-- and welove our kids. it is one of the struggles we've had as a nation because we've seen this collapse of the american family, of this basic value that we see that unit struggling. families begin, a husband and a wife, and that incredible moment when a lady looks at a pregnancy test and sees that little line and realizes there's a baby on the way. 43 years ago as a country there was a decision made by the supreme court, a decision that forever changed the structure our families, forever changed a

valuing within the country because, you see, the value shifted 43 years ago and it changed from "there's a baby on the way" to "that family gets to choose if that's a baby or not." to lurltly be able to say -- to literally be ail to say based on the preference of the mom, it's tissue or it's a baby. you should handle those two things very, very different. i can remember in my family 19 years ago, plus, now when we saw that little line and started getting a house ready and started getting things organized and how to get our finances in order because there is a baby on the way. because in those first moments, before my wife could even feel that she was pregnant, we found out that she was. and that was a child coming to our family. she has a name now. her name is hanna. and the first of our two

daughters, we understand full well what things were like in those earlier days. s.we should know if we don't do something now, what planned parenthood and other folks would say, just to remove the tissue, that if something wasn't done from that moment an, there was a baby coming. a baby that would look up in our face and smile and would have a name. americans have lost track of this basic thing. that's not tissue in the womb. when that pregnancy test comes up positive, that's a baby. regardless of the preference of any individual, that's a baby on the way. cells are dividing. for many they don't find out for maybe a couple of months even and they begin to figure out somebody is changing here and they do a quick test and by the time they do the test there's a beating hearted.

they look in with a sonogram and count ten fingers, ten toes. if you were to reach in and actually do a d.n.a. test, you would find out that lump of tissue that's in there is not tissue. it has d.n.a. different than the mom, different than the dad. that's a child. and it's a unique life. and that life is not determined based on preference. that life is determined based on that dividing cell's child with ten fingers and toes. i really can't think of anything else we have in america where anyone can just say based on their preference, i che choose r that to be a life or i choose that not to be a lievment i can't look at this desk and say, i choose that to be a life. we know that life has basic criteria. it is dividing cells, can function on its own, can reproduce. it is life. we know what life is. and we can't casually say one thing is life and one thing is not. just like we casually don't just

fight off the destruction of tissue in other ways. i always smile when i hear some folks on the other side of this argument say they want abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. i hear it all the time. safe, legal, and rare. i always ask the question when someone says that to me, why rare? i understand safe and legal. why would you care if it is rare? if it is just tissue, why does it matter if you remove it? no one mass an individual movement to fight off individuals from taking warts off their hands because if you have a wart on your hand, it is just tissue and no one cares if you take that off. it is a wart on your harntiondz so take it off. everyone is fine with that. but for some reason there is a push to say, "safe, leelg legald rare "when it comes to abortion. they understand it is not just tissue or you wouldn't say it had to be raimplet you understand it is an incredibly

painful, difficult decision that a mom is making. because she knows in her gut that's not tissue. that's child. a child that would one day have a name and a smile. that's a child. in china, the government gets to decide whether it is just tissue or a child. because the government will step in and say, if you have a second child, you can't have that. you have to destroy the second child. now, in their ben neferlence, china has shifted to say you can have up to two children in certain asian in certain regions, but if you have a third one, you have to destroy that child. in america, for whatever reason, if individuals with the freedom to say if i prefer for this not to be child and suddenly somehow our culture says okay, you can

pick. the supreme court in 1973 looked at this issue and they argued a lot about viability or what they call quickening. this conversation about viability really circled around could states actually make laws protecting the lives of children once they reach viability. now, in 1973, viability was very different than what it is today. there are many children that are born, if you'll go to nic-u units, neonatal intensive care unit, that you'll go and you'll find a very large area in most hospitals. you ought to go by and visit and walk into nic-u area. because you'll find many rooms and many beds there where decades ago that wasn't true. because children at 22 weeks and 24 weeks didn't survive before. and now a higher and higher percentage are. you see, there are children that are in oklahoma city right now in nic-u that weigh just a tiny

bit more than two iphones. that's their weight. when they're born. just a tiny bit more than two iphones in weight. and yet they're growing up to be healthy, productive kids. they're children. we're getting better in nic-u as well, learning how to be able to provide oxygen so their developments -- lungs develop. we're getting better as i visited at o.u. children's hospital over the christmas break and visited with some of the physicians there in the i.c.u. saying what have we learned, what have we gained? and they're talking about how we feed now more thane used to decades ago. they receive food and we want their digestive system to develop. things are very different now in science and it's forcing us to rethink the issue again -- when is a child a child? and in our basic american values, should we stand up for

them? i believe we should. and i'm amazed at the number of moms that if they will get a sonogram and see the picture of their child in their womb, they understand clearly that's not tissue. that's a face looking back at me. that's fingers and toes that i can count. there's a beating heart there. that's not random tissue. in fact, i don't know if you knew this, mr. president, but they can now do 3-dsonograms and then send the sonogram to a 3-d printer and actually print out a model of what the child looks like in the womb in that exact position. now, not only is that cool as a parent, to be able to say i can actually hold a model of what my child looks like right now at 20 weeks of development, 28 weeks of development and to be able to see and look at their face, but it's revolutionary for physicians that at 20 weeks are

reaching into the womb, giving anesthetic to the child and they can actually see exactly what the imperfections are so when they go in and do surgery, they can practice on the outside before they reach into the inside. the technology continues to advance. and i say to my colleagues, at what point will our law catch up with our science? how long will we deny the clear science here? and understand that's a child? i think in the decades ahead our nation will catch up to the science and we'll look back on a season in our country when we ignored the obvious. when a pregnancy test says "positive" that's not positive for tissue, that's positive for a baby.

mr. president, i also want to affirm the thousands and thousands of volunteers around the country, many of them coming this week to the march for life, that serve every single week in crisis pregnancy centers around the country, that lovingly walk with moms through some of the most difficult days of their life. as they make hard decisions. and with great compassion, they walk them through a tough pregnancy and then they're with them in the days after delivery, bringing diapers to them, bringing formula to them, helping them in those early moments. thousands of volunteers around the country do that every single week. good for them. good for our country. good for our value for life. i'm always proud when americans stand up for other americans no senate is not in order.

the senate is not in order. the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, madam president. thank you to my colleagues who are joining me here today and on so many other efforts to stand up for women. the 43rd anniversary of the supreme court's historic ruling on ro roe v. wade is tomorrow. this is an important time to realize how much this decision has meant for women's equality, opportunity and health. why it's so important we continue defending the hard-won gains that women have made and why we need to keep pushing for continued progress. for anyone who supports a woman's constitutional right to make her own health care choices, this has been a tough and trying congress. to be honest, at the beginning of 2015, i gave my republican colleagues the benefit of the doubt. i hoped that in the majority, they might focus more on governing and less on trying to get inbetween a woman and her rights. unfortunately that didn't last

long. since this congress began, more than 80 bills have been introduced in congress that would undermine a woman's constitutionally protected right to make her own choices about her own body. the house and senate have voted a total of 20 times to roll back women's health and rights. and that's not all. republicans have pushed budget proposals that would dismantle the affordable care act and slash funding for family planning. and after a summer of using deceptive, highly edited videos to discredit planned parent mood and try to take away -- parenthood and try to take away health services, the house has doubled down by launching a special investigative committee to keep up the political attac attacks.

nowhere is that clearer than in texas. where an extreme antiabortion law could force 75% of the clinics statewide to close. if that law stands, 900,000 women of child-bearing age will have to drive as far as 300 miles round-trip to get the health care that they need. madam president to, to be clear a right means nothing without the ability to exercise that right. and laws like hb-2 in texas driven by efforts it to undermine women's access to care is without question aimed at women and their rights, especially women who can't drive hundreds of miles just to get health care. later this year the supreme court will decide whether to uphold texas extreme antiabortion law and in doing so

they will decide whether women can l act on the rights they are afforded in the constitution. this law puts women's lives at risk. it is the biggest threat to women's constitutional rights in over a decade. that's why i'm working with many of my democratic colleagues to call on the supreme court do uphold roe v. wade and protect a women's right to make her own health care decisions. today as we head into a year that is absolutely critical for women, i've got a message for those who want to turn back the clock. those efforts to undermine women's health care are nothing new. women have been fighting them for generations and we're going to keep fighting back today. we're not going to go back to the days when because women have less control over their own bodies, they have less equality and less opportunity. and as we defend the progress we've made, we will keep pushing for more, from continuing to expand access though that where a woman lives doesn't determine

what health care she can get to expanding access to affordable birth control and family planning, to fighting back against domestic violence and sexual assault which disproportionately impacts women. we're going to keep pushing for progress because we believe strongly that the next generation of women, our daughters and our granddaughters, should have stronger rights and more opportunity, not less and my colleagues in the senate are going to keep working every day to bring women's voices to the senate floor to show when women are stronger, our country is stronger. thank you and let's keep up the fight. madam president, i ask unanimous consent to put into the record the statement from my colleague, senator boxer, from california. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. ms. hirono: madam president, i rise today to mark the anniversary of roe v. wade, 43

years ago, within the lifetime of most of us here, the supreme court's decision effectively reversed draconian state laws prohibiting abortion and gave women power over their own health care decisions. before roe v. wade, nearly 5,000 american women died every year seeking abortion care that was legally not available to them. that number dramatically dropped after the decision because women were able to get abortion care from trained medical legally out in the open. the court found that a woman's right to access abortion care is a fundamental constitutional right. while as with many constitutional rights not totally unfettered, this decision enabled women to gain control over their own bodies and, in turn, their futures. if the government interfered in other patient-doctor decisions the way that state and federal governments have interfered with

women's reproductive rights, there would be a national uproar. why is it different when we talk about a woman's body as opposed to a man's? can you imagine if states passed laws restricting fundamental decisions about a man's medical care? why is it that women have to defend deeply personal decisions over our own bodies in court and in legislatures? i recognize that there are deeply held beliefs by good people on both sides of this issue which is why the right to choose should be left to the individual woman and her doctor. yet ever since the roe v. wade decision, state and federal lawmakers have attempted to chip away at a woman's right to make her own health care decisions. hundreds of laws have been passed by states to place limitations and roadblocks to a woman's right to choose. restrictions such as mandatory

delays, unduly burdensome regulations, and unsign civic 2s are all attempts to undermine roe v. wade. in congress, we continue to see unprecedented attacks on women's reproductive health. destructive policy riders in spending bills, attacks on providers, and efforts to reduce women's access to health care services. all in the name of prohibiting abortions. these attempts are not based on facts or science. they do not advance any public policy goals in the interest of women, which is why many of us characterize these efforts as part of a deeply antiwomen agenda. moreover, these restrictions disproportionately impact women of color and low-income women. apparently it is not enough to remove funding for reproductive services. the antiwomen agenda includes

reducing funding for maternal health programs and services for infants and children. the lawmakers writing these restrictions are not the ones who will have to live with their negative consequences. it's the women across the country who will have to live with these consequences. and, of course, the legal battles continue. for example, the u.s. supreme court will be hearing arguments later this year on a texas law that severely restricts the ability of a woman to access safe reproductive health care. my colleague from washington touched on the problems and challenges that this texas law imposes. again, this law, which disproportionately impacts low-income women, has already severely affected the ability of women in texas to get the reproductive care they need. the rhetoric around this case, as well as the rhetoric employed

by abortion foes, has become increasingly dangerous. leading to attacks on providers, clinics and women seeking care. i hope we can all agree to not return to the pre-roe v. wade landscape, where women endangered their lives seek reproductive care and thousands died doing so. i urge my colleagues to join me in ensuring that women can continue to control their own destinies for the next 43 years. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: madam president, tomorrow marks the 43rd anniversary of the u.s. supreme court's ruling in roe v. wade, recognizing a woman's constitutional right to liberty and personal autonomy in her decision whether to have an abortion or not. this landmark case not only recognizes those rights, but it is also responsible for saving countless women across the

country for the devastating and deadly outcomes of back-alley abortions. i want to speak to that because i have some personal knowledge here. i was a young state attorney in vermont before roe v. wade. i'll never forget getting a call from the police and went with them to the emergency room at the local hospital. a young woman was there who had nearly died from an unsafe, illegal abortion because she could not legally receive that care from a doctor. i want to speak of that tragic history today because i feel the current effort in many states to roll back roe v. wade by denying women access to doctors could drag women back to those dark and dangerous times. in the years leading up to the supreme court decision roe v.

wade, i was the state's attorney in chintlin county, vermont. abortion was illegal in my state of vermont. despite the state ban many women sought this medical care and some doctors risked their freedom and livelihood by providing women with abortions in local hospitals. these were safe abortions in medical facilities. they saved women's lives. they protected their health. knowing this, i made it clear to the doctors in my county that i would not prosecute any of them for providing this medical attention to women in a medical context. i did, however, prosecute to the full extent of the law others who preyed upon women's fear and desperation by back alley

abortions. of there are 100 senators in this body. i am the only united states senator who has ever prosecuted somebody in an abortion case. and i vividly remember that horrific case. the spring of 1968, and i was called to the hospital to see this young woman, as i mentioned. she had nearly died from hemorrhaging caused by the botched abortion. and i prosecuted the man who arranged for the unsafe and illegal abortion that nearly killed her. after that case and witnessing firsthand the tragic impact that the lack of safe and legal abortion care had on women and families in my state, i talked to the local doctors about challenging vermont's abortion law. a year later a group of women and doctors brought a class action case to overturn the law.

the case was styled as a suit against me as a state prosecutor , but this was a test case against the law and i publicly welcomed the case. even when the state attorney general's office told me that it lacked the resources to devote to any defense in this case, i decided to file supreme court briefs on my own. i filed briefs on my own, but the case was unable to proceed because none of the plaintiffs were seeking abortions at the time. the particular nature of the constitutional claim to abortion, which is by its nature a time-limited claim, made it extremely difficult to bring actionable cases before the courts. later that same year we got another chance. a case where i represented the state and i did the briefs, the case was beachum vs. leahy and quickly made its way to the

supreme vermont supreme court. at that time our state's high court was comprised entirely of republicans, but these five conservative justices understood what we had been arguing all along. the statute's stated purpose was to protect women's health, and yet denied women access to doctors for their medical care with sheer and dangerous hypocrisy. the court's opinion was in question. where is that concern for the health of a pregnant women when she was denied the advice and assistance of her doctors? the court's ruling in beachum assured the women of vermont would no longer be subjected to the horrors of back alley abortions. it is a victory for women's health in vermont, and even though the attorney general at that time moved for re-argument,

i told the court as state's attorney that i had no objection to the ruling and concurred. a year later the u.s. supreme court in roe v. wade held it was now the law of the land. women have a constitutional right to their autonomy and bodily integrity and protects the decision to have an abortion and make that decision with their doctors. i recount this history not just to mark another year of women's rights and safety under roe v. wade and beachum vs. leahy, but also to connect the history to the attack today on women's access to safe and legal abortions that are struggling to take us back to those times. states looking to roll back women's rights have returned to penalizeing doctors to deter them from providing women safe health care. i find it most appalling that

these states are passing these laws claiming they somehow protect women's health. these laws have nothing to do with women's health. they have everything to do with shutting down women's access to safe and legal abortion. and when you deny women access to doctors for medical services, you deny them their constitutional rights. you also deny them their safety. in some cases, their lives. this is a fact that legislatures passing these laws either callously ignored or chose not to hear. i still remember that case as though it was yesterday. i still remember that young woman, and i still remember the history of the person who was performing those illegal abortions. that is why i joined an amicus

brief with 37 other senators, 124 members of the house and the whole women's health versus halstad case currently before the u.s. supreme court. our brief urges the court to overturn this state law, requires doctors to provide abortions and meet onerous restrictions that apply to no other medical procedures. they are extremely unrelated to protected women's health. this law would have the effect of shuttering 75% of all women's health clinics and abortion provider services in the state if fully implemented. it would also shutter all the other services they provide. already parts of the law in effect have had an devastating effect on women's health. the university of texas showed after the law went into effect an estimated 100,000 to 240,000 women tried to end their

pregnancies on their own without seeking medical attention. with nowhere to turn, they resort to herbs, illicit drugs. if this law was passed on a pretense, women's health is a travesty, it should be struck down. the supreme court justices can't ignore the impact the state law would have on hundreds of thousands of women in texas and across the nation. when i see these efforts to prevent women's access to safe and legal medical services, i think about all the young women in vermont who have grown up knowing that the constitution protects their liberty, both the u.s. constitution and the vermont constitution. it also recognizes their capability, saying for themselves matters that control their lives and their destiny. i hope they and generations after them never experience otherwise from the supreme court.

i will speak further on this subject another time, madam president, but when i think what that young woman turned to in vermont, i'm glad that our -- our tastes to uphold our constitution right to privacy, beacham versus leahy is on the books. i applaud the very conservative, very republican supreme court justices who wrote it in a unanimous opinion. mr. president,

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hampshire. and supreme court oral arguments whethere that questions government employers can fire or demote workers based on their ions about political beliefs. the iowa caucauses are almost a away. tim kaine was in the state for presidential candidate hillary clinton. he talked about his own support for the former secretary of state at this stop in the city of davenport. great to be here. isn't it going to be great. take the rest of the day off. i get around a little bit, yeah. oh, yeah, this was really fun for me. i'm really glad to come.

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today. left as of ten more days to keep conversations like this one. every -- every minute counts. really pleased, really, really pleased to introduce kaine, former mayor of richmond, former governor dnc chair,nia, former and current senator from virginia. the s been an asset to party and asset to the issues that we care so much about. without further ado, senator tim kaine. >> this is so great. his nice thank joe for introduction to lauren. great work. hillary staffer outside making a call for the

next event travelling with me days.couple of i have another virginian with me. corinne works in my senate office. we're pleased to be here in davenport and be back in iowa. city, went n kansas to the university of city and had friends from charles city up here.ome my aunt gertrude and uncle claude are from madison. we knew iowa well as a kid. we have come back often now that i'm in politics and dnc chair and outcaucusing for president obama in '08. it's great to come back this pillar exhibit a of grassroots democracy. for all of the work that you've done and ask you, do you have a little more next 10 nk for the days? absolutely. all right. secretary clinton needs you for next 10 days.

iowa increasingly makes a difference in politics generally. i'm so strong for hillary. i said please run for ft.. first.le about me, i was a missionary in honduras, a civil rights lawyer for 17 years. city councilman, mayor, lieutenant governor, governor, senator. party chair i have had the -- i can't keep the job. uncrucial experience of working at local government, state government, and now at the level. that's fair. i've seen issues from potholes court crowded juvenile documents up to the iranian nuclear deal and the war against isil. been an executive and a legislator. i know what it takes to do the job, the super difficult job as president. one of the reasons i support hillary.

the other reason is i know all candidates. i know hillary real well the mayor of richmond in the clinton administration. the city was working together with the clinton administration initiatives.nce when i was lieutenant governor a governor, hillary was senator, doing things for our troops and military families. virginia is the most military state in the nation. now that i'm national party of r and senate, secretary state, the lead face of diplomacy around the world. i know her very well. sanders very well. we serve in the senate together. on the budget committee with bernie. care very much about him. o'malley well. we're governors of maryland and virginia at the same time. well. him i know ted cruz well. we serve in the senate. he's on the armed services committee with me. nomar co-rubio well, we serve in the senate and i'm on the committee withns

him. say that to say this. i support hillary because i know the job. running.he people i do not know donald trump. i think we all know donald trump. i know the job. i know these people. hillary clinton is going to be the next president of the united states. why is she the best? so many reasons. i'll tell you three. results., issues, character. now what i look for people in politics part of the industry.ment so we kind of -- we kind of paint the picture with you for negative ads or whatever. as i work with people in olitics, i look -- what is the consistent theme that just kind of runs through your life even before you were in politics? a consistency of what

animates you or powers you. midwesterner he church friend. i'm catholic. i grew up in a community where a midwestern, methodist, they have a duty obligation sense. strong and wonderful ist faith.e method pastor in the youth group that got her focused on the challenges of migrant and the challenges are the least of these. if you look at everything she's done, whether it was when she moved to arkansas and she was working with the children's fund and ableense to start legal aid offices when she was the first lady of a a nation foe cushion on the empowerment of women and wealth of d the families however we define them

america.1st century she was a senator working on all kinds of important issues, especially around this kind of empowerment theme. and then secretary of state here admits a all of the challenges of being the nation's chief diplomat. she made the empowerment of key herb flames a shoe. she knew it was good but the state of families, the state of women, the education of youngsters, especially young girls, is a great bellwether bit of evidence for the overall health of the society. she's made that a priority. i say about her, i'm voting for her because of her character. a consistent er cross life born out of an obligation to others. at the to know what is core. there'll be issues that come up that we can't predict now. what's at the core, that will give you a sense of confidence about how some people issues, character first issues.

'm so strongly a believer in hillary on the issues. i like all of the candidates, ll of the democratic candidates. i really believe she's got the right path. the issues at home and abroad. at home.s all of the empowerment of women, equal n, family issues, pay or paid family leave, these critical things. she's been talking about them long before they were cool. the economy, we want the economy be stronger. so the question is, how are we going to make the economy stronger? it workwe going to make better for everybody? i think sometimes democrats can trap of we're the guys that want to regulate the economy. hillary wants to grow the economy. have to have the right regulation in place to grow the economy. o regulations can screw everything up as we've seen. i live in a city where we did dramatic effort to turn around by cleaning up the river and if we hadn't had the clean water act, it wouldn't happen. shouldn't just want to regulate things to regulate

them. the oechbd the day the way to reate more opportunity for people is not just by regulating the economy, it's about growing the economy. hillary understands that. that's why she's so strong on and s like prek education educational quality and trying to make college more affordable for people. looks like we have college age kids here. burden of finances now keeps people from grabbing on the the economic opportunities they should have. a personal one to me but it matters to a lot of people. hen i was in local government in richmond, when i got into it at the city council, the second rate in the united states. we had to fight like hell to improve it. houston, we had the worst shooting in the istory of the nation at virginia tech april, 2007 when all of these beautiful kids or aculty members got killed or injured. there's a lot of issues. but we have to have somebody out gun that can look the manufacturers in the face and

just run you can't everything. owner.proud gun i'm a second amendment supporter. i believe reasonable rules keep us safe. e've got a congress sadly, i wish it were otherwise. i know this well. he nra is headquartered in virginia. we have congress that won't do he common sense things like background record checks. congress handed a blank check to arrows of war are important.

we have to focus on diplomacy. clinton built all of those relationships. she helped to avert a shooting hamas and israel earlier in her tenure. she laid the groundwork for find a path forward for cuba and trying to find a path forward in a different way nuclear deal. we have to have people who understand the power of diplomacy. the people who left claw.that and hillary, supporting our troop, supporting the military families, a lot of the work she did was on military family issues. i'm on that committee now, john mccain is the chair, i hear her hillary.bout how much good work she did as a member of that committee. i'll tell you, i think that's important right now. the front-runner here on the

republican side, the lot of places, a donald trump. he american military is a disaster. can you imagine someone running chief over 1.6 million young men and women military and the another million plus guards and reservists and their family the r going around saying american military is a disaster? these are nton knows proud people who are working hard and sacrificing for her nation. she would never show that kind of contempt or disrespect for hose volunteering to serve their country. that's the second. character on the issues. the results. a body of achievers. whatever we've done, we've gotten there and achieved. we pay close attention to who

gets results and who's a good debater. strong positions. not just a debating society in this job. yournot just can you state position strongly this job of president? you've got to be able to find move things and forward. i tell you this, senate of the running ates, anybody right now, democratic or republican, the person that somebody i that's can work with. that's somebody i respect. even when i disagree, we can the be civil and find common ground. the only candidate out there that members of the senate, her er they're voting for or not, have respect for her. her.an work with it's secretary clinton. we don't just want to be right, do right. and she has a whole field of to forge coming in partnerships and make things happen. that's why so many people in the senate are campaigning. of us this weekend

and a number of us last weekend. her, we've behind seen her at work and we know we can get things done for this her.on with that is what it's about. issues.ght on the she's the one that could get results. left, we s the 10 days have to have every ounce that we can from you. set such an example, a powerful example. a stream in politics that would like to turn it in to can any negative ads that be run on tv. thank god in iowa and other a place to keep the it alive. owa the way you do this case makes it so important. the fact that you're first sets it off with that kind of tone. hillary is that going to roar out of here strong with the rest is with your advocacy.ts obviously to commit to be there n caucus on february 1, to be

precinct captains, 1600 plus precincts in iowa. captains. the pleasant team may have them.n a lot of do as many volunteer shifts a caucus between now and night. i know you're all in. working hard to make it happen. it restores my faith of small d democracy and to see this kind i travel around the state. thanks for having me. we're going make history. to make history on february 1. [ applause ] glad to be here. the important part, these guys can tell you what they really need. pass pboards that we'll around, signing up for dotc shifts. we're asking for knock on doors phone calls the last four days this, weekend, a weekend of action, every day for campaign we'll be here making phone calls. you can drop by any time. the hile we're passing out

clipboards, i know that many of you asked for opportunity to take a photo or talk with the so we're going to have a line set up here so you guys can all get a few moments with the senator. >> where do you want me to stand? >> here. >> can i get one here with this crowd? >> yeah. >> awesome. perfect. >> good deal.

obligation in a wonderful way. but we have to do things for others. you're a photographer. you're doing it all, lauren. >> you've been working here in office for a while? >> yes, i have. >> thank you, thank you so much for all you do. >> yeah.

notion that- it's a 17 million have coverage. then those who had coverage protection the against -- the. yeah, yeah. absolutely. misinformation that -- yeah. >> thank you. >> i love what i do. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. good working here in the office. >> yeah. >> seems like here. >> yeah. >> campaign time is not like real time. it's like all absorbed in this.

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i opened my house for the staffers., i have to tell you. she's the one. >> she's the one. >> came in and my face lit up. > in iowa but grew up -- yeah -- >> why don't we take one with the three of us. we get the three? there a win sign? what you do? >> it's inspiring.

one together? no discernible speaker ] economic improvement for those years. we have a really good chance of having one of the same kinds of runs.

>> actually from alex andry yeah, virginia. >> you are? >> i went to --

>> great. --and >> you've been out here for a while.

>> i said i could lose tomorrow. never lost a race. people are afraid of them, they need to be. they're advocating a position the fact ners are -- she's willing to stand up against it.

>> you guys have the primary and then the -- is that how you do it? doing what you're doing? >> how long have you worked there? year. s >> phone calls. >> really important. >> really exciting. >> yeah. >> oh. okay.

> so i had -- you told me -- >> fies to see you. >> great to see you. >> thrilled to see you. >> yeah. >> thanks for doing this. >> how long have you been working here? >> i worked here -- you did. that's great. that ave a lot of friends work out here. you have a great team. >> oh, yeah.

restores her faith. -- >> yeah. >> yeah, i'd love to. what a good crew. one of your volunteers were saying that.

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the saturday night before it was re-elected 2012. we did the rally. matthews playing solo. love it. i took him up. i know dave matthews a little bit. played with the violinist a couple of times. ass. matthews is such a bad and my kids were like dad, you're so cool. turned out for the best two days later? >> yeah. >> it all workled. there too. i wasn't just there for them, i was there for me. you guys make it happen. real proud of you, thanks. >> where is -- yeah, tom.

ou've got to get -- >> i missed -- i don't think i picture with tom either. oh, okay. i did. >> perfect. >> a lot of energy. >> a lot of energy in this group? >> thank you. >> it is. >> the last friend i know. have to run on adrenaline. >> you do. >> great ideas for phone calling.

this is a beautiful picture of the secretary, isn't it? picture.great where was that event? that's the river center right here. yeah. just got one of chelsea. >> beautiful. >> yeah. pictures, e great wow. so she was here doing some events just recently too? >> yeah. yeah. impressive. the poise and grace she has. an amazing young lady. >> you can tell something about the parents by having the kids. >> that's true. >> yeah. >> i like that. >> that's fine.

>> thank you. >> well, the countdown is on. and as we approach the iowa caucuses, we're really the only where you can watch these events unfold as they happen. so whether it's a campaign a house party, a town l meeting, if we're covering speech, nobody else is going to give you the unfitered look at the candidates as they the crowd and talk to voters and make their best sales pitch. go crisscrossing iowa for a couple of days. cover all of the candidates, democrat and epublican candidates and keep an eye on caucus night itself.

we'll be the only network to and you to a republican democratic caucus. if you ever wondered how it all happens, watch c-span. >> after the iowa caucuses is the first in the nation primary new hampshire. kentucky senator and presidential candidate rand paul made a stop in that state on friday. hey spoke with voters in a local restaurant in manchester for a little more than an hour. >> that's why i moved out here ochlt. >> oh, really? i didn't know. little bit of a sweater. >> yeah. >> how are you? >> good. good to see you.

>> how are you? good to see you. >> great to see you. >> how are you? you guys know robert, right? >> right. look for you here. >> thanks for being here. >> you're welcome. >> welcome back to manchester. good to see you. nice to see you. how are you? how's it going? >> going good. a warm day today. >> yeah. great. >> i don't know. >> good to see you again. how are you? >> i'm good. >> going to get another one today. >> oh. thank you.

>> how are you. what's your name? >> i'm robert. so nice to meet you. >> how are you doing? >> several big ones. -- and -- the to machine gun show. you ever heard of that. over the as all internet. if you look at it, there's a guns. line of like 50 you have to wait years to get on the firing line.

>> all right, we'll see you. >> you -- the best chicken fingers. >> all right. >> hey, are we blocking your way? yeah, thank you. >> good for you. >> have a good day.

[ no discernible speaker ] you guys have any questions? comments, speeches? >> this is my wife, kelly. >> yeah. >> nice to see you.

>> really, got the last flight out. antonio, one in san inch of snow closes it down. they couldn't clean it up. snow ey have two feet of coming. >> good one on facebook coming. they give it time. what do you want? hot relish or mustard? you're having a cookout. >> the last year there were till piles -- >> i can't believe they want . -- the

>> not one onion left. >> immediately -- >> yeah. >> true. >> there is milk and bread, right? everybody gets milk and bread. the water bottles. >> doing well. he still does speeches. going to join me in iowa the last day. out. excited to have him we're going do a lot of college campuses and do some of the younger generations. seeing it in iowa. >> thank you. thank you. >> unknown. >> yeah. >> i don't think so. i think -- >> the whole country.

>> had like three times what normally turns out for voting. and -- >> my wife works at home so. > we -- know that made 15 holes. are rting people also the -- coming on 1720, 1819. you cannot sit down and have a meal or watch tv without call. >> and one of the networks had it on television and they

completely left her name out. >> you know? >> is that strong? >> yeah. [ no discernible speaker ] >> ready? yeah. >> okay. me to go s wait for by? >> we can grab kelly. >> kelly? up here. >> want your on? >> yeah. -- little

>> oh well. where are you guys all from? >> any of the -- any of the be -- how much can the national debt be reduced by the end of the first term of any of it. budget.nce the the only one that introduced the budget to balance it. within five ce

years, we can do it within four years. budget amendment for the constitution, balancing it in five years. in perspective how you do it. ou cut 1% of spending each year, the budget balances between three and five years. that's imminently doable. we have not had the resolve. gripes in biggest washington is republicans need to control the house and the first amendment and standing up and addressing that. would.ad my way we i voted against spending bill in december. against raising the -- ltimately you have to realize -- both parties until we figure that out, we're never going to fix the problem. >>

thanks, guys. >> victoria? >> yeah, i got it. senator.you, >> please. >> we are certainly going to try. dr. rand paul: he is a family doctor down there. dallas supporters in the area. funeral. here for a the whole family said the candidate is here.