Political Quotes

“I remind this body that we voted to repeal this ban on abortions in military hospitals overseas last year, and I hope my colleagues would do the same again this year. Mr. President, year after year, debate after debate, Congress revisits the issues concerning women's reproductive freedoms by seeking to restrict, limit, and eliminate a woman's right to choose. This ban on abortions in overseas military hospitals, reinstated last year, represents just more of the same. I point out that these efforts to turn back the clock on women's reproductive rights will never erase the fact that the highest Court in the land reaffirmed, time after time, in decision after decision, a woman's fundamental right to a safe and legal abortion. This whole issue of banning abortions in overseas military hospitals represents another frontal assault on a woman's right to choose. It also represents a frontal assault on a woman's dignity. This ban denies a woman's right to choose for female military personnel and their dependents. It denies those women, who have voluntarily decided to serve their country in the Armed Forces, a safe and legal medical procedure.”