Cecile Richards: ‘We Don’t Get a Big Check’ from the Federal Gov’t; Federal Funds Don’t Pay for Abortions

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FOUHY: "What’s your — what’s the organization’s message to Paul Ryan today?"
RICHARDS: "Pay attention to the voters in his district and to the women of America who are saying they rely on Planned Parenthood for basic preventive care, and it is the threat to take away that access to care will create chaos and put a lot of people into a situation where they can’t have access to the health care that they depend on us for."
FOUHY: "We have Donald Trump as president. We have full Republican control of Congress. We have a House Speaker who says he is going to defund planned Parenthood. Pull federal funding from the organization. How threatened is planned Parenthood?"
RICHARDS: "I think it’s important to remember, he is not going to did he defund us because we don’t get a big check from the federal government. We get reimbursed for the health care services we provide, and it’s important for folks to remember, federal funding doesn’t go for abortion at all. It has not for many, many years. We’re talking about denying women and young people the access to Planned Parenthood for basic preventive care. Birth control and well women visits, cancer screens and the like. Those are the stories we heard today from folks in his own district, from Wisconsin, saying Planned Parenthood is a health care provider they rely on, and in many cases women told stories of the fact that it was at Planned Parenthood their cancer was detected and they’re grateful that they’re now cancer-free."