We're better than that as a Nation than to let this disintegrate into this reality.

Legal experts warned us it would establish a dangerous precedent in which unelected judges can deny fundamental freedoms.

And women across the country warned us that overturning Roe v. Wade would insert politicians and judges into the most personal decision imaginable.

This is about more than States rights. I think it's about a point of view that goes much further.

With a single ruling, the right-wing majority overruled five decades of legal precedent, revoking a constitutional right for the first time ever in the history of this Nation.

Do we want to live in a country where judges and politicians replace doctors, medical experts, and scientists as the arbiters of which drugs are safe?

At some point, you had to be so sick and near death before they finally would agree to terminate the pregnancy.

There is no excuse--underline 'no'--for violence on either side of this issue, none.

It begs the obvious question, what's next? Is it going to be birth control pills? The morning after pill?

I can't remember a testimony as compelling or as forceful as yours.

The Dobbs decision didn't resolve anything. It merely replaced controversy with chaos.

From the moment Roe was overruled, women and medical professionals were thrust into a sea of confusion and fear.

I don't want Justices making scientific decisions unless they have that education expertise.

Over the past year, Americans have learned a painful lesson on the dangers of judicial activism.

I trust women to make these decisions, not politicians or judges or Senators.

There is no excuse--underline 'no'--for violence on either side of this issue, none.

I don't want Justices making scientific decisions unless they have that education expertise.

What each of my patients needs the ability to do is to make these important decisions themselves, about their health care and their lives.

In my mind, this gets to the heart of the issue and the debate. When does life begin?

So, the termination of a pregnancy is the taking of life at any stage after the moment of conception?

The chaos began last June, June the 24th, when the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

It begs the obvious question, what's next? Is it going to be birth control pills? The morning after pill?

From the moment Roe was overruled, women and medical professionals were thrust into a sea of confusion and fear.

The Dobbs decision didn't resolve anything. It merely replaced controversy with chaos.

In my mind, this gets to the heart of the issue and the debate. When does life begin?