Political Quotes

“I rise today with my colleagues. I want to thank Senator Murray for her leadership, but also Senator Smith, who has long led on this issue and has stood up time and time again for freedoms and reproductive freedom. Yesterday, as she noted, we lost Cecile Richards, who was a true force of nature who spent her career fighting for reproductive freedom. We lost her just 2 days before what would be the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. But we all know that our country is now well into its third year without the protections of Roe. In the years since the Supreme Court overturned half a century of precedent and stripped away a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions--going against 70, 80 percent of Americans who believe that this decision should be made by a woman, her family, her doctor, and not by politicians; who believe, as my colleagues just noted, that politicians should not be in the waiting room making the decisions for families--women are now at the mercy of a patchwork of State laws that are creating chaos when it comes to accessing reproductive care. So the solution is not the bill before us this week. The solution is not to take rare cases of the most tragic nature, as my colleagues have described. I am a former prosecutor. I know what murder is. Murder is murder, including murder of a baby.…”