Political Quotes

“I am proud to join my colleagues on the floor today in opposition to the Born-Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act. If you are wondering whether that title to a legislation makes sense, the answer is, no, it does not. This legislation is simply a blatant attempt to interfere with evidence-based patient care and medical practices while enshrining lies about abortion care. My Republican colleagues spent the last 4 years calling Democrats alarmists. But here they are aggressively pursuing legislation that would persecute providers for doing their jobs and making a tragic situation for families even worse. Medical professionals are and have always been required by law to provide infants high-quality care from the moment they are born. There is absolutely no evidence that this law is being broken. To suggest otherwise is deeply offensive and dangerous. For any family-- all of us know families, if they are not our own--learning their child will be stillborn or not survive beyond birth is a profound loss, deeply grief-stricken. This legislation would deepen that loss. It would remove any control a woman may have over her pregnancy and force the family to endure unnecessary and unethical medical overreach at the hands of politicians--that is right, at the hands of politicians, not medical personnel. The bill would force physicians to provide invasive and hopeless measures, which are both medically and ethically inappropriate in these situations.…”