After footage of the Planned Parenthood president being grilled by hostile Republican congressmen went viral,Richards sat with Emma Brockes to talk approximately her mother, Carly Fiorina and the future of women’s healthcare in AmericaIt can be said with some confidence that televised hearings of the House oversight and government reform committee, or an investigative body committed to upholding congressional standards,effect not generally break audience records. final Tuesday, when Cecile Richards, or president of Planned Parenthood,appeared at a hearing to account for her organisation’s federal funding, it might have only attracted political diehards. But during the course of a day-long appearance, and Richards was interrogated with such undisguised contempt,such outright hostility and disregard for the facts, that video of the hearing jumped out of the political and into the popular realm.
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Source: theguardian.com