the case of a 10-year-old girl having to flee Ohio to get to the State of Indiana in order to terminate a pregnancy due to rape.

Lives have been disrupted, life-saving healthcare has been declared illegal, and women have been denied their fundamental liberties.

Well, I'm going to conclude, if I might, as Chair, and just say the reason we are at this moment in history is because the Dobbs decision decided we were going to redefine, State by State, the access to abortion and define the legal and…

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

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

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

According to the Center for Disease Control, abortions after 21 weeks make up less than 1 percent of all abortions in the United States.

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.

The joy of a possible grandchild that's been erased, and now you struggling to live, and an arbitrary political obstacle to saving your life.

Senator Durbin, in the State of Mississippi, a Black woman is 118 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by having an abortion.

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

the deadliest nation in the industrialized or developed world to be pregnant.

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

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?

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

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.

I have two statements for the Record that I want to enter into the Record, but I would like to say my debt of gratitude to the Senator from Massachusetts. Members of the Senate go to parades and salute the military, and we give speeches on…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the…

The relentless assault on reproductive rights has to come to an end soon.

If we default on our national debt, it's going to cost our economy dearly. We're going to find businesses unable to proceed and people losing their jobs right and left. That is a terrible outcome. So let's do the responsible thing and not…

Don't default. Avoid default.

The Republican Party is on the wrong side of history by a long shot.

There's no question in my mind that the Supreme Court has exempted itself from the standards that apply to the executive and legislative branch, and even to other judges.