Barbara Boxer

Women such as the one shown in this picture deserve to have another hearing. These are the things that could go wrong if a woman is denied this procedure without a health exception: They could hemorrhage; they could have a uterine rupture…

Since we last debated this bill, the Supreme Court has ruled an identical bill unconstitutional based on two principles: No. 1, there was a health exception; and this bill has none; and, No. 2, because of an undue burden on women because…

Regardless of the vote on final passage of this bill, I think you ought to think about why it is important to commit this bill to the Judiciary Committee. Since we last debated this bill, the Supreme Court has ruled that an identical bill…

First, anyone who reads Roe v. Wade knows it is not an unfettered right. Clearly, at the later stages, Government can in fact restrict abortion. Secondly, the kind of talk we just heard on the Senate floor, where two Supreme Court Justices…

I say to my friend that that is the whole point. When you are dealing with these emotional, difficult, terrible issues, you have to look at all of that. That is why, on our side, we are willing to say we would ban all late-term abortions…

It is legally the same. There are a couple of tweaks in the language, and there are a series of findings, but the lawyers who argued the other case tell us it is legally the same because there is no health exception and the language is so…

My friend has put it in a very stark way--that what is happening in this Chamber, and as my friend, Senator Murray, has eloquently pointed out, as we are amassed to go to war in Iraq, as we have a building crisis in North Korea, as we have…

Losing our daughter was the hardest thing we have ever experienced. It has been difficult to come to Washington and relive our loss. And it's ironic that I, with my profoundly pro-life views, would be defending an abortion procedure. God…

Let me say to my friend, he keeps referring to partial-birth abortions: ``There would be less partial-birth abortions.'' I would defy my friend to show me where there is a list of so-called partial-birth abortions. Because there are none…

Thank God, we have had so many advances. In my own family we had a circumstance where we were very fearful we were going to lose a pregnancy of one of my children. And because of these incredible advances, she held on, and long enough to…

Absolutely, it has been, but not since the Supreme Court case which struck down a legally identical bill. That is why I believe it should go back to Judiciary.

I don't want to have to face a Viki Wilson. I don't want to have to face the women who have told me this procedure that they want to ban saved them. I don't want to face them when they are sitting in a wheelchair and paralyzed or suffering…

We are talking about polls. I will give you a very late poll. This is an L.A. Times poll of the Nation: 45 percent think we ought to be working on strengthening the economy; 28 percent, fighting terrorism; 26 percent, dealing with health…

We are Senators. We are not doctors. With all due respect to my friend from Pennsylvania, if my daughter were in trouble with pregnancy, I wouldn't go to him. I would go to her OB-GYN. And I would say, Tell us what do we have to do to make…

I left that out in the list of items that have gone wrong. A $7 trillion surplus disappeared, and we have deficits as far as the eye can see. The last deficit I remember under George Bush 1 was headed to $300 billion. As I remember, it was…

My friend, the Democratic whip, is absolutely correct. Our records show that the first gulf war cost $61 billion. Remember that we stopped well short of Baghdad, when you are thinking what this war will cost. That is a long time ago and…

In closing, I again thank my friend very much. The fact that a general, a very highly placed general, would come out with a number that is not correct, is in itself astounding. It means he certainly is not informed either. Not only are we…

We are hearing everything from $6 billion in cash to an additional $10 billion to $20 billion in loan guarantees, and yet not a word in the budget. I wish to ask a final question of my friend, and that is, I was amazed to read that our…

I wish to pick up on the questions of, as we look at the costs of this war, to set aside the human costs, about which I have spoken at length and about which the Senator from West Virginia has continually been so eloquent, there is also…

Does my friend know what they are talking about in terms of the number of troops? I suppose a lot would depend upon whether we have a lot of our allies with us, would it not?

You are using up the fund. There is hardly anything left.

I am very disturbed about our abandoning, the Administration abandoning, polluter-pays for cleaning up Superfund.

We have wasted precious time. There are women who have no idea, who are of child-bearing age, pregnant now, eating too much of this fish and getting too much mercury.

But I guess my plea to you right now is to please, please move on this.

I totally disagree with your statement that your so-called Clear Skies Initiative is going to get rid of more mercury than current law.