The president of Planned Parenthood is blasting House Republicans for the “sexist” and ill-informed remarks made during Tuesday’s tense five-hour hearing on the organization.

“I do think some of the comments were pretty sexist,” Cecile Richards said in an interview on MSNBC’s "The Rachel Maddow Show" late Tuesday. “But actually I think it was because they didn’t have anything else to talk about.”

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Earlier on Tuesday, Richards was the target of rapid-fire questioning from two-dozen Republicans, mostly men, on everything from fetal tissue to her own salary.

Questions from House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz Jason ChaffetzThe myth of the conservative bestseller Elijah Cummings, Democratic chairman and powerful Trump critic, dies at 68 House Oversight panel demands DeVos turn over personal email records MORE (R-Utah) about her compensation prompted an immediate backlash from the committee's top Democrats, who called him out of line and misogynic.

One Republican lawmaker, Rep. John Duncan, Jr. (Tenn.), quickly jumped in to dismiss the criticism, asking Richards, “You don't expect us to be easier on you just because you're a woman, do you?”

Richards condemned Republicans for trying to use the hearing — “obviously, I’m being generous calling it a hearing” — to shut down the organization to fulfill an obsession over making abortion illegal.

In the 15-minute interview with Maddow, Richards called the anti-abortion campaign a “terrible political move” that is failing to drive down support for Planned Parenthood, which she pointed out remains more popular than all GOP presidential candidates.

“They are obsessed with ending access to reproductive healthcare for women in America,” Richards declared, using language far sharper than her remarks to lawmakers earlier that day.

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Richards, who has been an executive with Planned Parenthood for nearly 10 years, was visibly cautious in response to every question during her long day on Capitol Hill. She was rarely combative — telling lawmakers “I’m not trying to be argumentative” — and mostly refrained from raising her voice during even the sharpest attacks.

In her interview with Maddow, Richards condemned GOP lawmakers for not understanding how Planned Parenthood receives the bulk of its funding. The organization receives most of its federal dollars through Medicaid reimbursements — the subject of several lawmakers’ questions.

“Frankly, I was a bit dismayed about how little many members of the committee even knew about women’s health at all,” she said.