Scott Walker: We Need to Defund Planned Parenthood Across the Country
KELLY: “I want to shift gears, because this video from Planned Parenthood has made national news, and this so-called doctor on there celebrating how she crushes the body parts of fetuses, celebrating how she just did a 17 weeker that morning and talking about what she got in her harvest. You come under fire in the state of Wisconsin for mandating ultrasounds for women before they have abortions. Your take on how this video changes the debate.”
WALKER: “It really does. Years ago, when I first became governor at the state of Wisconsin, my first budget, I defunded Planned Parenthood. I took some attacks from some on the media and some on the Left. But this video is just a prime example. This is not a non-controversial entity. This is obviously a disturbing disgusting act that they're talking about. We've outlawed that in Wisconsin in the past. We need to be defunding Planned Parenthood not only state by state but I think across the country and instead put resources into the women's health issues but put them into non-controversial entities, public health entities or other things in that regard –“
KELLY: “OK. But the challenges to that is -- the challenge to that is Planned Parenthood, controversial though it is, helps a lot of women in this country get birth control and prevent unwanted pregnancies which would result in abortion.”
WALKER: “But in our state, we took the Monday, we defunded Planned Parenthood and we put it into other entities, many cases we put it in a county public health services, so there are better, non-controversial ways to do that can still protect and provide for women's health but not to do so in a way that aligns with a group like Planned Parenthood. This video is one more example. Why defunding them is so important.”