Political Quotes

“The issue here is equal treatment under the law, basically. You have a man who has to have a procedure performed that is a legal procedure. No one tells him he has to get on a plane. No one asks him all the details. No one puts him on a plane, takes him out of his duty station, flies him back. I tell you, if you did that to any one of these Senators here who might have been in the military, you would antagonize every man on this Senate floor. You are not treating a woman who wants to get a medical procedure in the same fashion. You may not like it, my colleague, and I respect your view and others on the Senate floor who I see here who want to take away a woman's right to choose, who want to take women back to the old days, but the point is: How do you justify treating a woman who wants a legal medical procedure different than a man who wants a legal medical procedure?”