Barbara Boxer: “Roe v. Wade is hanging by a 5-to-4 vote in the Supreme Court. That is why I think my colleagues keep coming back with…”

“Roe v. Wade is hanging by a 5-to-4 vote in the Supreme Court. That is why I think my colleagues keep coming back with this approach of banning this medical procedure, which many doctors have used because it was the safest one to save the life and health of a woman. They keep coming and they keep thinking someday the Court will reverse it and go 5-to-4 the other way. I think at that point women will rise up. But it is our job... to look ahead and not wait for that crisis, and to make the point and to discuss what could happen to a woman. She could have a stroke if this procedure is outlawed. She could have a hemorrhage or a blood clot. She could become paralyzed. She could be infertile. These are horrible things that can happen to our daughters, our granddaughters, and it could even be worse. We can have some States, if Roe were overturned, that could put a woman in jail, could put a doctor in jail for trying to assert a privacy right.”