That is a personal philosophical and religious decision. That is not a medical distinction, and that is not something that Congress should be involved in.

In 2014, a woman giving birth in Detroit was three times more likely to die in childbirth than the rest of the country.

We need to be unequivocal about calling these laws out for what they are, sinister attempts to interfere with a woman's right to make her own personal health choices and decisions.

The Illinois Reproductive Health Act ensures coverage for abortion care and updates clinic regulations to lift that burden from abortion providers.

This is a decision between a woman and her God and her doctor and her life, and only she knows how to make this decision.

And one of those issues that they voted on was Hyde, eliminating Hyde and having the EACH Woman Act.

I think that one of the things that we have--we have seen over the last couple of years is women taking back their rights, and it is not just women. It is people. It is LGBTQ people. It is trans people. Basically, standing up and saying we…

Because Missouri's law not only requires a waiting period, but requires it to be with the same physician who will ultimately perform your procedure, she was then- her two-visit abortion became a four-visit appointment visit.

We cannot afford to endure another abortion ban because we are already battling discrimination in healthcare, wages too low to put food on the table, debilitating childcare costs, attacks on immigrants, and threats to our voting rights.

This obsession with abortion has not only proven detrimental to our patients, but it has lasting effects on the health of an entire community.

We have not been able to get a gun violence prevention bill passed because we don't have the same basic compassion once the unborn fetus becomes a baby.