Pelosi: You should 'love' Planned Parenthood

"I don't want to be a fear-monger, but this is scary. This is really dangerous what they're trying to do to a woman's right to choose," Pelosi said in comments reported by The Blaze.

The Democratic leader then pivoted to mocking Republicans for supposedly being against "big government" when it comes to things like "clean air" and "clean water," but wanting to use the government to clamp down on abortion — which are performed in America at a rate of about 650,000 per year over the last decade (down from well over a million in the '90s).

"It's a funny thing because they don't believe in governance, they don't want clean air, clean water, food safety — all those things that governments do, they don't want this, they don't want that, but they — Big government when it comes to a woman's right to choose. Big government there," she said. "So this, we have a fight on our hands."

Pelosi then revealed the warning she says she repeated in her first quarter-century in Congress: Republicans supposedly "don't support family planning." Though nobody believed her then, now things have changed, she claimed. The proof, she suggested, are Republicans' attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, which performs over 300,000 abortions per year (about half of all abortions in the country).