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Susie, thanks for calling out Assemblyman Webber on his use of scare tactics. I was in the room when he began reading from the pamphlet, and while both he and I are too young to have lived through the McCarthy era, I think everyone in the room got a taste of what it must have been like. Mr. Webber was certainly seeking to villify family planning by reading from a pamphlet out of context. To their credit, other members of the committee were not easily duped by this distraction. In fact, Assemblywoman Joan Quiqley interrupted Mr. Webber to say she was offended --- not at what he was reading --- but for employing this distraction as a pretense to deny poor women access to basic health servics.