Rep. Jackie Speier’s Inspiring Speech
Yesterday’s House debate on stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funding (aka the Pence Amendment) included a few bright spots, notably this moving, impassioned and dead-on speech from California Representative Jackie Speier.
She’s responding here to Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, who bravely read aloud from a book passage describing how a second-trimester abortion appears on an ultrasound.
I mostly like old, unpopular things, like from 2002. I'm also 102 years old.
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