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.

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Scott Lamb
by Scott Lamb

BuzzFeed, VP of International

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.

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