Political Quotes

“Madam President, I rise today to speak on behalf of American women, our fundamental rights, and our freedom to make our own healthcare decisions. It is shocking that in this day and age that we have to actually stand up and fight for something as basic as making our own reproductive health decisions, not a bunch of politicians, not a bunch of judges but women making our own healthcare decisions. Thanks to a radically conservative Supreme Court that we now have, reproductive freedom is no longer a constitutional right in the United States of America--no longer a constitutional right in the United States of America after 50 years. Today's daughters and granddaughters have fewer freedoms than their grandmothers did, and, for the record, we are furious. Want to know just how furious? Well, in Michigan, our State could soon revert back to a 1931 law that makes abortion at any stage a felony--no exceptions for rape or incest; putting people in jail, potentially; women going to jail; doctors going to jail. Who knows how far this would go? Well, the people of Michigan aren't going to stand for that, and a group called Reproductive Freedom for All has gotten to work. These passionate advocates and volunteers from all across Michigan--west side, east side, up north, down south in Michigan--have collected more than 750,000 signatures to put reproductive freedom on the ballot for Michigan women this November.…”