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It is imperative that the Senate start exercising proper levels of oversight to determine whether or not the law is working as promised.

Those days are over when chronic disease gets short shrift.

I think what happens in the Congress is, you get up and there are a whole host of issues on your plate.

Given the current fiscal reality, we have to find ways to provide high quality care at greater value and lower cost, all without adding to the deficit.

Thank goodness we have caregivers for Alzheimer's patients.

We have to get this done.

How does Congress have the authority to do that?

Even in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court said that the State has unique reasons for restricting abortion because it involves what the Court called 'potential human life.'

These laws matter. I can point to several instances in which, absent such laws, university or hospital policies would have forced medical personnel to perform abortions.

We can choose life, and when this debate finally 1 day ends, I think we will. I think we will choose life.

I believe that abortion is a unique procedure. As you have said, it is the only procedure that terminates a human life.

This bill attempts to wipe it all out to eliminate even minimal regulations that most Americans support.

Many medical experts and health providers have strong moral and ethical concerns, as they have every right to have, with providing abortions.

I believe in the innate dignity of every human life, and I believe every human society is rightly judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members.

This bill makes a pretty clear statement that there is nothing unique about abortion, nothing that makes it different from any other medical procedure.

I do not recall Congress ever passing a law that prohibited States from enacting entire categories of laws simply because Congress says so.

There was a time when the humanity of an unborn child could plausibly be dismissed as philosophical conjecture. Today we know it is a biologic fact.

This bill would prohibit restricting abortions based on the reasons for the abortion.