Janice Schakowsky: “My colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem to be absolutely obsessed with taking away a woman's right to make her…”

“My colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem to be absolutely obsessed with taking away a woman's right to make her own personal health decisions with her own money. Today, we could be extending unemployment benefits to 1.6 million Americans. Instead, we are considering legislation that would discriminate against a woman's right with her own money to pick an insurance policy. We could be raising the minimum wage instead of effectively banning abortion coverage in the ACA market, even though not a penny of Federal dollars will go to do that. We could be passing the Healthy Families Act to provide paid sick leave, instead of erecting more barriers to women's ability to protect their health, and yes, including access to safe and legal abortions. We should be defeating this legislation for three reasons: First, because women and their doctors--not politicians--should make their health care decisions; Secondly, because we should not be undermining access to comprehensive insurance coverage of women's health insurance paid by the insured woman, not the government; Third, because we have more pressing priorities to address. It is time that we moved on to things that matter to the American people and not continue this relentless war on women's rights.”