medical advances and vaccines for polio, measles, rubella, vaccines against drugs, neurological disorders, immune deficiencies, cancer, parkinson's, we need to continue to have medical research. and part of that medical research is because there is the ability, access to the fetal tissues. and there isn't profitability in it. nobody has shown there is profitability in it. but there needs to be a way that we have medical research in this country. and so i just want to say thank you to all of the women and the men and all of those that labor in our health care delivery system across this country. and especially those who would provide that to women. 80% of the clients receive birth control services. that's 516,000 unintended pregnancies annually. i want you to think about that. and i want you to think about the estimated one out of five women in the united states has visited planned parenthood health center at least once in her life. 20% the women in this country. of course some people don't want them to visit there anymore. and i also want to talk just a little bit about the fact that, you

also mentioned we cannot ever give up hope for any one person, and that hope and the possibility of rubella tatian is always -- rehabilitation is always at the heart of our care for each other. so i think his focus, his really lifting this issue to such a prominence can help us move away from what is really a medieval response and a fearful response to crime. and too often, especially in the case of mr. glossip, that we're hearing, that he is erroneously convicted. and i think that sort of horror alone should be enough, much less the dignity of everybody who may have committed these crimes, but how do we -- i think what he is saying, it diminishes our dignity to kill someone else, especially when the state does it in our name. then who are we? who are we as a nation? he was trying to lay that out clearly to call us to be better ourselves. juan: sister, what are some of the issues you perhaps had hoped the pope would address in this presentation, in his address to congress? >> that he had not addressed? it is hard to think of something. immigration and economic justice are the two big issues

every child who has been spared the misery of chicken pox, rubella, or polio can thank the scientistswho used fetal tissue. >> that's correct. i think probably everyone in this room has benefitted in some way. >> just in conclusion, again, thank you for the work you do. mr. chairman, while i appreciate your initial comments, particularly as we evaluate, as always, the best and most efficient use of taxpayers' money, at least from my perspective and my opinion, both from a local level of 14 years of overseeing the relationship in the bay area with affiliates there, at least at that level, we did our due diligence, and this was the most effective and efficient way of meeting our clients' needs. thank you. >> just one quick question, ms. richards. what do you like most about your job? >> getting to see the patients that we serve every day and the young people who are frankly going to have more opportunities than we ever did. it's great. >> thank you. >> the gentleman's time has expired. as i noted prior, we are going to recess for roughly five minutes. we intend to start back up again at

every child who has been spared the misery oflh chicken pox, rubella, or polio can thank the scientists who used fetal tissue. >> that's correct. i think probably everyone in this room has benefitted in some way. >> just in conclusion, again, thank you for the work you do. mr. chairman, while i appreciate your initial comments, particularly as we evaluate, as always, the best and most efficient use of taxpayers' money, at least from my perspective and my opinion, both from a local level of 14 years of overseeing the relationship in the bay area with affiliates there, at least at that level, we did our due diligence, and this was the most effective and efficient way of meeting our clients' needs. thank you. >> just one quick question, ms. richards. what do you like most about your job? >> getting to see the patients that we serve every day and the young people who are frankly going to i think more opportunities than we ever did. it's great. >> thank you. >> the gentleman's time has expired. as i noted prior, we are going to recess for roughly five minutes. we intend to start back up agai

perhaps much of the public doesn't know that rubella, measles and other vaccines owe their discoveryo fetal tissue, which has been legal since 1992. first approved in the bush administration, investigated and then passed on in the reagan administration. so why are we here? we're here because the republicans, even though the majority of republicans, 56%, say they think planned parenthood should be funded, believe that this is an issue for their base. so, yes, we have accused them in this hearing of starting another war on women. we can't call it anything else. >> at the same time, are you concerned about the whole question of how this doctor, planned parenthood doctor, was discussing the procedures on the undercover video? we know the fetuses shown on the video were taken from another source, had nothing to do with planned parenthood, it was edited and doctored, but the cavalier way that that doctor was describing the procedure was disturbing to a lot of people, including planned parenthood supporters. >> i think only doctors could speak in such a cavalier fashion. that does not, in f

every child who has been spared the misery oflh chicken pox, rubella, or polio can thank the scientistswho used fetal tissue. >> that's correct. i think probably everyone in this room has benefitted in some way. >> just in conclusion, again, thank you for the work you do. mr. chairman, while i appreciate your initial comments, particularly as we evaluate, as always, the best and most efficient use of taxpayers' money, at least from my perspective and my opinion, both from a local level of 14 years of overseeing the relationship in the bay area with affiliates there, at least at that level, we did our due diligence, and this was the most effective and efficient way of meeting our clients' needs. thank you. >> just one quick question, ms. richards. what do you like most about your job? >> getting to see the patients that we serve every day and the young people who are frankly going to i think more opportunities than we ever did. it's great. >> thank you. >> the gentleman's time has expired. as i noted prior, we are going to recess for roughly five minutes. we intend to start back up again

medical advances and vaccines , measles, rubella, cancer, parkinson's, we need to continue to have medical research, and part of that medical research is because -- accesshe ability -- to fetal tissues. in it.sn't profitability nobody has shown there's profitability in it, but the needs to be a way that we have medical research in this country. toust want to say, thank you all of the women and men and all those who labor in our health care delivery system across this country, and especially those who would provide that to women. 80% of the clients receive birth control services, 516,000 unintended pregnancies annually. in five women in the united states has visited at planned parenthood once in her life. i also want to talk a little bit asut the fact that as much we try to have universal health care, we still don't have universal health care unfortunately in this country. bit want to talk a little -- i'm not for abortion. sign thatif i see a says honk if you're for choice? yeah, i do honk. we have been very lucky and fortunate in my family and in my own personal experience, even when we we

medical advances, vaccines for polio, rubella, vaccines against immune deficiencies, cancer, and since -- parkinson's. we need to continue to have medical research. part of that medical research is because there is the ability, access of the fetal tissue's. if there is profitability of it, nobody has shown the profitability. there needs to be a way that we have medical research in this country. i just want to say, thank you to all of the women and the men, and all of those who labor in our health care delivery system across this country. he those that would provide that to women. 80% of the clients that receive birth control services. that is 105 -- 116,000. 20% of women in this country have visited planned parenthood one in their lives. -- once in their lives. i want to talk a little bit about the fact that, as much as we tried to have universal hair scare -- universal health care, we still do not. it is a not abou not about being antiabortion or pro-abortion. we have been very lucky and very fortunate in my family and in my own personal experience. even when we were pretty poor, to h

research has resulted directly in the development of the polio vaccine, vaccines for hepatitis a, rubella, chickenpox, shingles, and rabies. anyone in america that has a family member or themselves been affected by multiple sclerosis, can thank feel tissue research for mcnabb than smith in that field. you can think fetal tissue research for making advancements in those areas. it is crazy that we are here because the other side wants to shut down government because planned parenthood was following the law, because feel tissue research is helping a lot of people. that doesn't make any sense to me. let me conclude now by asking you to respond to questions about why there has been a reduction in cancer screening. isn't true because guidelines have changed that they said let's do less mammograms and terms of the medicaid thebursement, they changed guidelines about pap smears. ms. richards: that's right. rep. leiu: let me read a quick letter from one of my constituents. she said she grew up in a small desert town and made some poor choices and started having sex at 15 and didn't want to end up

birth and then after the baby's born but before it's kind of developed and thinking about vaccines, rubellahers here get that before they become pregnant typically. think about flu shots and stuff. locking at other countries, here we think about flu shots as one of the issues and one of the problems but in other countries one of the problems is they don't really have mandated vaccines so you can see a lot more of those diseases and even where they're available, there's problems potentially and there's the cost, there are issues with syringes or needles with access to those, not contaminated products and also, of course, people's concerns and misconceptions of vaccines. >> with that, it seems like resources have a lot to do with it, coming to money and other nations not developed, they don't have the resources to do that. what can be done, especially now and prevalence of social media. we know from generation to generation. does more attention need to be paid on the health of the mother to see the numbers of premature births go down worldwide? >> that's the best thing to do. the mother can h

journey of fetal tissue research, the impact in medicine has been overwhelming, dealing with issues of rubella, the use of cell lines has helped these vaccinations, normal human development in order to gain insight into birth defeblgts. has this come to your attention, professor smith, fetal tissue research in the medical science has generated this kind of productivity? >> absolutely. >> and in actuality the proponents of these videos trying to highlight the ugliness of what is misdirected which is the harvesting of organs which that was not the case. let me ask you this question, mr. bopp. are you aware of the -- how mr. dayton was able to engage in these false and misdirected distorted and maybe criminal videos? do you know how he was able to do that? >> i've been advised by the committee staff that this hearing is not on that subject. and i should not comment. i don't have a comment. >> i don't know how the committee staff say that because the videos are in the letters sent by the three republican chairs engaged in it. let me say what he did. he stole, stole, stole the identity of the presi