Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman for yielding. This is a serious issue. Some would say it is an issue about freedom, about individual integrity, as to who makes choices. I hear a lot about freedom, about government not interfering. Madam Speaker, millions of women across our country and the men who stand with them are in shock and outrage at the new law in Texas and the Supreme Court's refusal to block it from taking effect. Texas senate bill 8 bans any abortion after 6 weeks. That is, of course, before most women know that they are pregnant. It includes no exceptions for rape or incest. What do you think the psychological impact on the health of a woman is if you don't think this is about the health of women? As many as 90 percent of women seeking reproductive care in Texas do so after 6 weeks, meaning that this law effectively bans women in the State from accessing the full range of reproductive care that they are guaranteed under Roe v. Wade. Now, my presumption is, of course, most speaking against this are not for and didn't support and would like to see Roe v. Wade repealed. Also deeply disturbing is the way senate bill 8 is enforced. The law gives any private individual the authority to police any of their fellow citizens whom they suspect may be providing for or receiving reproductive care. How draconian, how communistic, how authoritarian such a scheme is.…”