Political Quotes

“earlier today, as we just heard from my colleague from Texas, the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the abortion ban that took effect in the State of Texas earlier this month. I hope every American who tuned in to this hearing listened very closely--very closely--because here is what we heard: My Republican colleagues on the committee literally made no effort to defend the Texas abortion law, the Texas abortion ban--SB 8, as it is known in Texas--not a single effort to defend it on its merits. They made no effort to engage on the issue of the shadow docket process through which the Supreme Court allowed this bill to become law, and they made no effort to argue that women's constitutional rights should be protected. What we witnessed during today's hearing was the opening salvo on the fate and future of Roe v. Wade. Here are the facts: This Texas law is no ordinary piece of legislation. To quote Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, it is ``a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny.'' This law has effectively banned abortion after 6 weeks in the Nation's second largest State, even in cases of rape and incest. The fact is, many women do not even know they are pregnant by 6 weeks.…”