Tina Smith: “reserving the right to object, with respect to my colleague and friend Senator Britt, this bill is another attempt to…”

“reserving the right to object, with respect to my colleague and friend Senator Britt, this bill is another attempt to shift the narrative for Republicans away from the fact that they have blocked every attempt to pass bills that would actually protect women's reproductive health and freedom. By overwhelming majorities, Americans support protecting acts such as contraption, IVF, assisted reproductive technologies, and safe, legal abortion care. Republicans know that they are out of step with the American people, and that is what we are seeing here today. Ever since President Trump's Supreme Court overturned Roe with the disastrous Dobbs decision, women's healthcare in this country has been thrown into chaos, and every day we hear more stories of the cruelty brought by these Trump Republican abortion bans across the country. The solution to this problem is simple and obvious: Congress should pass comprehensive protections for contraption, for IVF, and for reproductive freedom. But, instead, Republicans have been blocking those bills and are putting forward bills like this one, which would create a Federal Government website, among other things, that functions basically as a crisis pregnancy center. To be clear, healthcare providers who provide information about the full range of their options to women, including abortion care, would be blocked from this website.…”