this legislation has been supported by numerous public health, reproductive and women's health organizations and groups throughout the city and state. and the concept behind the legislation is simple. it is to prevent pregnancy centers from purposefully and knowingly making false or misleading statements about the pregnancy-related services they provide to the public. when women face unplanned pregnancies, time is a crucial factor. if women are intentionally misled into believing that a pregnancy center provides emergency contraception -- coive, that loss of sign maybe she needs a more and is a producer -- a procedure or the option is no longer available to her. i want to make it clear that the intent of the legislation, contrary to what some may say, is not to regulate or dictate the types of services, political or religious views that a pregnancy center may provide or pass judgment on whether they should be providing abortion services. rather, this legislation has been carefully crafted to ensure a balance between protecting the most hon. members of our communities and protecting the const

-- which could allow providers to drop coverage of other prere-productive health services like contraception an even reproductive care like mental health services an h.i.v. counseling. all i hear from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, especially those within segments of their party, is that they want the government to butt out. why then are we considering legislation on the house floor that effectively overturns the privacy rights enumerated by the united states supreme court as well as increases burdensome government regulations on insurance companies. congress should not be making personal health care decisions for women. congressmen, really, shouldn't be involved in making personal health care decisions for women. that should be between a woman, her family, and her doctor. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i now would like to yield two minutes to the distinguished chairwoman of the foreign affairs committee, ms. ros-lehtinen. the speaker pro tempore: the

care and access to services, all manner of reproductive health services needs to be made available for women around the world. and for families. >> all right. azza karam from the united nations population fund and dennis dimick from national geographic magazine, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> warner: finally tonight, images of wounded warriors taken by a combat veteran who wants americans to see the impact of war one picture at a time. "newshour" correspondent tom bearden has the story. >> reporter: combat photographers have been documenting the terror, the violence and the boredom of war ever since the invention of photography. america's 21st century conflicts in iraq and afghanistan are no different. these pictures were taken by air force sergeant stacy pearsall. she is one of a very small number women to have been admitted to the elite ranks of combat photographers. >> i joined the air force at 17. it just seemed the natural thing to do since the majority of my family served in one branch of the military or another. and the military history of my

had to do with cutting, cutting, cutting, and medicare, medicare, are on the table as well as reproductive health services, so in that mood of cost cutting, sometimes maybe we're being penny wise and found pound foolish, that in the long run, we are probably endangering the health of the country. remember the affordable care act was put into place because of the rising cost of healthcare, while many are still uninsured. it is an attempt through preventive healthcare to make healthcare available to many, and also to prevent a lot of the diseases that you would have to deal with at the extreme end, when it is much more expensive. so unless there is another plan to somehow provide universal healthcare, okay, with all of the options -- >> the good news is, there is. the good news is this obama care is not the only approach. >> by addressing medicare. >> call it -- >> this is not the way. >> meaning to call it like that. >> oh, please. he put the whole presidency on it and he should take ownership of it. i'll call it obama care. instead of focus on job creation he focused his whole political capital o

reproductive health is we go beyond just family we provide services to ensure that. the child when she wants to have it and how dispersed and so for those who have come how many women is your own population fund helping with infertility how many women are receiving infertility treatments the way they're receiving hundreds of millions of contraception from the u.n. do you have a figure for that. quite a number i don't have it i'll be right in saying it's zero is it your home but to the extent that we treat sexually transmitted infections we provide expertise to assure that did you not get to that point because most of the where you talk about actually do so far from disease or a gentleman with such a woman on the program yes or some of this to mark the job with and who obviously have a difference of opinion here regarding are you going to look after i think i think that looking at infertility is missing the point completely there are more women in africa who want to use contraception but can't get it then there and then there are women who are using contraception unme

dubois in terms of the efforts in trying to help women take 0 control of their reproductive health.n order to have this conversation we need to, as he suggests, look at the history and not just go on wikipedia and grab quotes off of there. the story is more detailed than that. >> okay. okay. we'll end that part there. let's talk about this a little bit. i don't want to give a short trip, but i have been hearing a lot about this on-line, on radio. i was listening to a radio show last week and it said what happens in an obama versus cain in 2012, if that happens and they said if cain runs against obama and samuel l. jackson is highest grossing movie star of all times, racism is officially over, lz. >> it is the over simplification of how we look at racism today, that will be over but we haven't begun to talk about the racism in terms of internalized racism and minorities against whites and other than just black and white like latinos and whites and latinos and blacks. there's a lot of nuances when it comes to the conversation of racism and to boil it down to two black guys running if

funding for title 10, the national family planning program, to eliminate funding for all other reproductive health programs offering breast and cervical cancer exams, well woman and primary health care and family planning to prevent unintended pregnancies and to reduce the need for abortion. they've led measures that eliminate requirements in health care reform, covering maternal health care, mammograms, breastfeeding support and other essential health services. in addition, they've made it impossible for women to speak to their doctors about abortion using internet-based telemedicine. now these are just a few examples. the republicans are full of fuzzy facts. i set my day, almost every day, by reading the cartoon after other parts of the newspaper, "yet fuzzy." the cat in that particular cartoon constantly comes up with fuzzy facts. if you put all the fuzzy facts together and all the things that the republican majority has done including tea party led efforts to gut environmental protection agency rules that keeps the air we breathe, the water we drink and the environment in which we live safe, e

the republican appropriations bill continue this attack on women's reproductive health by eliminating the nation's family planning program, cutting funding for teenage prevention initiatives and redirecting those funds into failed abstinence programs. and the list goes on. let's return to the battle that took place today. inputting forward this divisive bill, republicans made the false claim that the affordable care act needs to be amended that we don't fund taxpayer abortions. that is just wrong and really amazing that that argument could be put out there, because the fact is the hyde amendment has been in effect for decades and the affordable care act continues the hyde amendment policy despite my personal view that it should be overturned. the republicans continue to invent new ways to deny women their guaranteed rights purely on religious beliefs and on ideology. this is a democracy. this is not a theocracy. and i'm a woman of faith, but i have to tell you the personal religious views of some should not dictate public policy for all. i'm aware of the fact that sometimes we as a na

health counseling. we operate 30 help centers, including two in the city and county of san francisco that provide comprehensive, medically-accurate and unbiased reproductive and sexual health information to all who walk through our doors, regardless of their ability to pay. planned parenthood highly trained doctors, nurses, and health care professionals provide affordable, accessible, and quality care to everyone seeking our services. planned parenthood provides accurate information and non- judgmental counseling for all people so they can make informed decisions for themselves and their families and live healthy and productive lives. our doors are open to every woman, every family, and every community. planned parenthood believes all people deserve comprehensive, medically accurate and unbiased information for any and call -- and all hell for services they are seeking. plan. it was strongly urge any and all organizations providing services and information be held to the level of quality care and professionalism that we probably give clients every day. thank you very much. -- that we probably give clients every day. oudly give clients every day. >>supervi

i think this would have an enormous impact on a woman's ability to get basic reproductive health careh, this is intended to ban all forms of abortion. there are no exceptions in this language. so victims of rape, victims of incest, situations where the woman's life is at stake, where her health is at stake, all of those abortions would be banned. but it would also reach much, much further into basic forms of contraception. 98% of women in this country use a form of contraception. something like over a third are hormonal types of contraception that would probably be banned. furthermore, ivf treatment. >> that's what i wanted to get to, frozen embryos and things like that, what would the impact be? many families rely on this. >> absolutely. many people rely on fertility treatment to start families. i think you can see from the fact that the medical community in mississippi and around the country, particularly in infer materiality doctors have come out opposed to this because this would deter their daily practice. >> what is your organization doing, say, to try to counter amendment 26? >

health we've had this whole congress. i mean, they've tried to cut women's right to full reproductive choice, they've tried to cut funding ol and for cervical and breast cancer screening, and on and on and on. so the whole anti-women's health agenda is a misogynist agenda. >> but why, when the nation, as we've already discussed, has 14 million americans out of work, why, when poverty levels are at their highest since the 1950s, the early 1950s, you know all these statistics. >> yes. >> they know all these statistics. and yet they spend this time on this specific issue. which individual is going to get a job out of this? who's going to actually get any opportunities to come out of a university and find employment as a result of what's ahappenin on the floor now? tell me. >> nobody. and that's what the the problem is. the problem is, they are catering to the far extreme right. they have passed this bill several times this congress, and even worse bills. they've died in the senate. and why don't they just say, let's focus on coming together and having a jobs plan? why don't we work with democrats and with the president and c

health. please continue working with reproductive rights activists in the city to find solutions to reaffirm this city's believe in women's moral agency and the right to decide their life. thank you. president chiu: i want to remind folks that we have public comment related to every piece of legislation that we have, often times we have several times of public comment. once an item has been voted on, and we can't allow public comment after the fact. we have already voted on this item having to do with false advertising and around a certain centers of the city. individuals that wish to speak on the issue of choice, you're more than welcome to do it as long as you don't address the specific legislative item today. >> i've asked to be placed on the -- >> the overhead projector will show up momentarily. >> i am a member of occupy san francisco, exercising our first amendment rights to legally assemble and speak out against what we believe are injustices inflicted on the majority of the people by the predatory financial institutions that ruthlessly are causing undue suffering to hard-working amer

reproductive years than ever before. more children survive thanks to better health care and sanitation. people are living longer. the best estimate is that there will be 8 billion people by 2025, 9 billion by 2050, off been 10 billion by the end of the century. -- 10 billion by the end of the century. much of the increase will be driven by poor countries in sub- saharan africa, many already with an adequate food and water. in the next 40 years, ethiopia will see their population rise from about 80 million 245 million. contrast that with germany. a similar population to ethiopia now to this could fall to 75 million by 2050. indeed, there is a scenario that seems that the world population is falling. the lower estimate is just over 6 billion people, 1 billion less than there are now. why? global fertility is already falling. in 1950, women on average had five children each. this is now down to two and a half. small variations infertility could have a big effect on the population size of the future. in much of the world, including brazil, europe, russia, japan, even china, fertility has fallen so much that top nati

choice as a government to intervene in the reproductive lives of women and families in ways that will undoubtedly have dramatic and negative impact on women's healthe that get a lot of people is this does go beyond abortion. what kind of impacts would this have in reproductive rights, not just in mississippi but nationwide. >> this and other nicanç initi are to take this to the supreme court to overturn roe v. wade. they're limiting access to health care and it puts into the constitution something that is scientifically completely false. it declares that a fertilized egg is a person. now, if you know anything about reproduction, you know the vast majority of fertilized eggs never implant and never become persons. they never become either live births or pregnancies that are terminated. so it just asserts something that is medically and scientifically untrue but does so in a way that can mean that everything from a spontaneous miscarriage could, you know, result in like we need to now think about whether or not this was a caused murder because this was a person, that in vitro fertilization can be impacted because it would be cruelty to freeze embry

health care plans for plans that provide abortion was among the discussions. tell us, who will this affect and how will it affect them? >> this is the most comprehensive attack on women's reproductivehts since 1973. it would affect women who want to in the health exchanges that will go into effect soon, with their own money they will not be able to purchase abortions. it's not just federal funding which has been illegal for a long time this is not about federal funding but personal money. it limits access to information about abortions. no longer will it be required that they tell women about their availability of abortion. and finally most dangerous, hospitals and providers will no longer have to provide emergency service to women who may be suffering from a botched abortion or a miscarriage when they come into a hospital and do not have to provide contraceptive information, birth control, family planning will no longer be just available. >> congress woman, supporters are saying that life threatening situations will not be denied in this case if it gets passed. it will not get past the senate so why are the republicans pushing it now? >> all of us that got up on the floor to oppos

but we do that with other reproductive kinds of issues and i felt that this one was similar to what we have done before. >> another health law directed to minors makes it a cream for teens and kids under 18 years old to use tanning beds. a full list of bills signed into law is available on our website, cbssf.com. click on "links and numbers." >>> it's officially countdown time. san francisco elects a mayor in less than a month. 11 of the candidates will duke it out in a debate that starts at 6 p.m. tonight. phil matier joins you now live with a preview. >> reporter: we're live here at the city club where we are going to be putting together one of the key debates in this race because tomorrow, absentee pal lots start hitting san francisco voters' mailboxes, and the fur is going to fly with these absentee ballots. we asked two candidates what the key issues are in the race so far. >> i think the things we need to focus on are growing the economy, demonstrating to takes pairs that we know how to be responsible with the taxpayer dollars. >> jobs, making sure that we bring back the 30,000 jobs we have lost over the last two y

believe that the state legislature and the board of health would take away the right of women like this to come to their doctor for all kinds of reproductive care. it is just -- it is overwhelming to me. >> reporter: they require her to make this 15 square foot room even bigger. >> i'm estimating if i had to comply with not only the construction but very onerous business practices. >> how much would it cost you? >> a half million dollars. >> do you have it? [ laughter ] >> i wish i did. >> she's vowing to find the noun stay in business but others may not be able to. supporters of abortion rights are fighting the regulations. today, representatives jerry connelly and jim moran signed a petition asking governor bob mcdonnell to not sign the new law. they say it has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with restricting aborings. >> my fear is that state clinics like ours are going to close and women won't have access to the healthcare that they need for themselves and their families. >> reporter: but delegate bob marshall says they are needed. >> nobody has required to report any complications, problems or even debts unless they occ

even preventable diseases reproductive tract infections and so on so what's a priority for helping the infertile this year and actually. no the issue about. production health is that we go beyond just family we provide services to ensure that. the child where she wants to have it and how this person so for those of them how many women is a huge population fund helping with infertility how many women are receiving infertility treatment the way they're receiving hundreds of millions of them contraception from the u.n. do you have a figure for that. quite a number i do or how they would be right in saying it's zero is it your home but to the extent that we see it sexually transmitted infections we provide expertise to assure that they do not get to that point because most of the way you talk about actually do so far from these gentlemen let's let the woman on the program yes or some of this to martha in just being go ahead with jump in we have to obviously have a difference of opinion here got more of it going to. look after i think i think that looking at infertility is missing the point completely there are more women in africa who want to use contraception

time when they had such a clarity of understanding about what taking away women's reproductive rights does to women's health. so it was a fascinating moment because i heard people celebrating the idea that not only a drkic president but particularly with a democratic house and a senate. remember we had all that? i know it's hard to remember but it was all democrats in charge of all of that in 2008. that this was going to be sort of finally a time when planned parenthood could breathe a little more easily. not that you ever could breathe easily but surely not the kind of attack that they would experienced under eight years of bush's administration. and at this point we're hearkening back to the bush era because it is so appalling that at this moment in a conversation about deficits and unemployment and international war and peace that apparently the full crom of all of that is occurring in a woman's uterus. and apparently if we could just control the uterus, then people would have work. it's funny but it's the opposite of funny. apparently this movement around reproductive rights is going to operate independ

reproductive tract infections and so on so what's a priority. in florida this year and actually and i'll help them to. you know the issue of boat. dock to health is we go beyond to just. we provide services to assure that. the child where she wants to have it and dismiss and so for those who have him how many women is a young population fund helping with infertility how many women are receiving infertility treatments the way they're receiving hundreds of millions of them contraception from the u.n. do you have a figure for that. private number i don't have it to be right in saying it's here only is it your home but to the extent that we treat it sexually transmitted infections we provide expertise to assure that did you not get to that point because most of the already talk about actually do so far from. all right gentlemen let's let the woman on the program answer some of these tumors in general with a jump in and well obviously have a difference of opinion here got him are you going to look after i think i think that looking at infertility is missing the point completely there are more women in africa who want to use contraception but can't

these dirty air toxins can cause a variety of serious health affects, including cancer, respiratory and neurological impairments as well as reproductive problems. the research also tells us that low-income families and minorities are disproportionately affected by toxic air pollutions including neurological development as well as higher rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease because these groups are more likely to live closer to industrial power plant facilities. in fact, by the e.p.a.'s own estimate, h.r. 2250 will allow up to tens of thousands of additional premature deaths and heart attacks and hundreds of thousands of additional asthma attacks that could have -- mr. waxman: i yield another 30 seconds. mr. rush: mr. speaker, it is time, it is now time that the radical republican majority stop putting profits in the pockets of dirty polluters and stop putting dirty air in the lungs of the american people. mr. speaker, it's time for the republicans to cease their enending assault on the environmental protection agency. mr. speaker, i urge all my colleagues to oppose this egregious and dangerous bill, and i yield back the bal

children, impacts hormones that regulates growth, metabolism and reproduction and has been classified as a carcinogen by the world health organization and the national toxicology program. chromium six was made famous by the movie "erin brockovich" starring julia roberts. that has been linked to stomach and other forms of cancer. and let's not forget mercury, a substance had a is particularly harmful to children because it impairs brain development, impacting memory, attention and language and potentially leading to life-long disabilities. the mercury is released directly into the air we all breathe and finds its way into the food which we eat. in 2010 all 50 states issued fish consumption adviseries, warning citizens to limit how often they eat fish caught in state waters because of mercury contamination. this bill seeks to permanently eliminate e.p.a.'s ability to reduce these toxic emissions from industrial boilers and does so despite the fact that the american boiler manufacturers association, the association that represents the very companies that designs, manufacturers and supplies the industrial boilers in questio

things can cause a variety of serious health events including cancer and respiratory and neurological impairments as well as preproductive problems -- reproductive problems. in particular, mercury can cause harm to pregnant women, unborn babies and young children. by -- >> i yield the gentleman an additional one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for an additional one minute. mr. rush: by damaging the developing nervous system which prevents childrens' ability to learn and to think. additionally, mercury emissions can also damage the environment by polluting our nation's lakes and streams and the seafood which we eat. in fact, e.p.a.'s stirments that h.r. 2681 will allow for thousands of additional premature deaths and premature heart attacks as well as tens of thousands of additional asthma attacks that could have been avoided. mr. speaker, the public health benefits from the reduction of air toxin emissions from cement kilns have already been delayed long enough. now is the time. the radical republican majority cannot keep making excuses and exceptions for the largest industrial emitters of mercury in the u.s., cement plants and in