Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) (Screenshot)

(CNSNews.com) -- After pro-life and pro-marriage leader Star Parker -- a black woman who had four abortions early in her life -- testified that it was dishonest to focus on Medicaid and food stamps when Planned Parenthood and abortion are decimating black communities, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) said Parker's remarks revealed her "ignorance" and "inability to deal with Congress people" properly.

The exchange occurred on Nov. 1, during a hearing before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice about H.R. 490, the Heartbeat Protection Act. The legislation would require doctors to check for the heartbeat of a child before conducting an abortion, and if the heartbeat is detected, the abortion is prohibited.

During the hearing, Rep. Cohen, who supports homosexual "marriage" and abortion on demand, said, “If you believe in life you should believe in Medicaid, healthcare, nutrition for people who are here, and preventing the eventuality of backroom abortions and where only the wealthy can afford to go where they may be legal, making poor women even more poor.”

Rep. King (R-Iowa), chairman of the subcommittee, said, “I would say that my reflections are this: Miss Parker, you have brought a comparison between slavery and abortion and, as far as I can recall, that’s the first time that type of testimony I have seen before this committee or any committee. Is that an original thought on your part or have you had others that indexed the same comparison? How did this come about?”

Star Parker, a syndicated columnist and the founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), said, “Others have looked at it as well. In fact, when you put the Dred Scott decision next to the Roe v. Wade decision they read almost verbatim. I’d also like to address something that was brought up earlier, if I may."

"When it comes to mixing the abortion issue with the challenges that we face in many of our hard-hit communities, I feel it disingenuous that the issues of Medicaid would come up and other opportunities for us to readdress what has happened and broken down in our most distressed zip codes -- the way that Planned Parenthood specifically targets these particular zip codes with abortion," said Parker.

Planned Parenthood tweet on Oct. 31, 2017.

"Abortion is the leading cause of death in the black community today," said Parker. "Since Roe v. Wade was legalized, 20 million humans have been killed inside of the womb of black women. And then on Halloween, Planned Parenthood tweets out that black women are safest if they abort their child rather than bring it to term."

She continued, "To the gentleman from Texas who brought up Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, I think that it's important that we put in record that the needs of those that are most vulnerable in society cannot be addressed with abortion. Abortion feeds a narrative that women are victims, that they have no control over their sexual impulses."

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) (Screenshot, CNN)

"And the result of this narrative being forced down into our hardest-hit communities, we are seeing now recklessness in sexual activity and marriage has collapsed," said Parker. "In the 50s, 70% of black adults were married. Today, that number is 30%. This is causing a lot more social pathologies that have to be addressed in different types of legislation, not the Heartbeat Bill. The Heartbeat Bill is to protect the innocent.”

Rep. Cohen then addressed Parker, "I’d also like to say that I am not disingenuous about anything I say about Medicaid or Medicare or SNAP programs. And to suggest I’m disingenuous shows your ignorance or your absolute inability to deal with Congress people the way they should. I believe in those issues and I think that they’re proper and to say I’m disingenuous is just wrong and I expect an apology.”

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) then commented, “I would ask for an apology from the gentleman from Tennessee [for] calling our witness ignorant when it seems to me she has a whole lot more knowledge and wisdom than--”

Star Parker, columnist, author, and founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE). (Screenshot YouTube)

Cohen shot back, "She's ignorant about me."

At that point, Chairman King said, "you're both out of order." He then ended the hearing, citing the lack of civility.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 35% of all babies aborted in America in 2013 were black children. Blacks make up only 13% of the U.S. population.

In addition, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in 2012 there were more black babies killed by abortion (31,328) in New York City than were born there (24,758. Further, the black children killed comprised 42.4% of the total number of abortions in NYC.