Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, if there are no other speakers, I am prepared to close. Madam Speaker, let me just say, simply put, for Black women far more than for White women, giving birth can amount to a death sentence. When Black women express concern about their symptoms, clinicians are more delayed and seem less likely to believe them. And the question becomes, as Harvard put it, whether it is clinical intuition versus unconscious bias. So as we look around the country and we see the complications from motherhood for African American women, we can look at Serena Williams; we can look at Beyonce; we can look in my household; we can look at Ashley Mitchell, whose funeral I went to just this past weekend. This is a crisis we have the ability overcome. We are America. We do great things when we put our mind to it, and this amendment simply asks this body to put our mind to maternal health, especially for African American women, but for all women in this country, to make sure that the best thing about womanhood, an ability to give birth, does not become a death sentence. Madam Chair, I ask for everyone's support, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Richmond). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes appeared to have it.”