It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.

Simply because we have reduced the general fund dollars to family planning, I think we have done very well.

How we have provided family planning services in some ways has been creative.

Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.