From the moment Roe was overruled, women and medical professionals were thrust into a sea of confusion and fear.

It begs the obvious question, what's next? Is it going to be birth control pills? The morning after pill?

The Dobbs decision didn't resolve anything. It merely replaced controversy with chaos.

In my mind, this gets to the heart of the issue and the debate. When does life begin?

I can't remember a testimony as compelling or as forceful as yours.

I want to also follow up on another topic, too. I spoke briefly about, and I have continued to share with all the witnesses that's coming forward to advocate for northeast North Carolina.

Ensuring a ready fighting force in the air is paramount.

There is a lot of talk on this floor and actually outside the Chamber today from the other side of the aisle about this bill cutting veterans. Well, I am going to tell you, as the only veteran among the four VA committee leaders…

I trust women to make these decisions, not politicians or judges or Senators.

With a single ruling, the right-wing majority overruled five decades of legal precedent, revoking a constitutional right for the first time ever in the history of this Nation.

At some point, you had to be so sick and near death before they finally would agree to terminate the pregnancy.

I think it is an important concept, and I think it is one that we are perfectly capable of looking into.

Most people in my district in eastern North Carolina very likely have never heard, I would imagine, of this, CFTC or the SEC.

I want you to imagine that you get home from work tomorrow and decide that you just don't want to pay your mortgage, so you call your bank and share the good news. The bank, at that point, explains that if you don't, you are looking at…

There is no excuse--underline 'no'--for violence on either side of this issue, none.

the case of a 10-year-old girl having to flee Ohio to get to the State of Indiana in order to terminate a pregnancy due to rape.

The chaos began last June, June the 24th, when the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

This is about more than States rights. I think it's about a point of view that goes much further.