Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from Texas (Mrs. Fletcher), who has been someone I have deeply admired as part of the women's movement, as part of the women's choice movement, and who has made herself a leader in this body and a leader in Texas, and for bringing us all here tonight as part of Women's History Month. Madam Speaker, I am rising alongside my pro-choice colleagues in honoring the women of the reproductive heath, rights, and justice movement. Women, like my own mother, who remember being young and without choice--without choice over their bodily autonomy. Women like my own mother who marched for women's rights, who remember when Roe v. Wade came down. Madam Speaker, I am here today to rise for the brave providers, the fierce advocates, the trailblazing women of color who established the principles and coined the terms, and all those who believe in a society where women are entitled to make personal decisions about their bodies, work, families, and futures. For those who agreed to become the face of legal challenges to abortion access, the litigators who helped shape the arguments that became the legal fabric of protections for reproductive rights, and the women who have served as the jurists and the justices who wrote landmark defenses of these rights. We must protect their progress from destructive efforts in the States to overturn precedent that has saved countless lives and determined countless futures. Rights are under attack.…”