Frank Pallone actually said...

"The bill, in my opinion, is critical to ensuring that healthcare providers can provide the care they are trained to provide free of unnecessary restrictions."

"this hearing is an important step towards, or forward I should say, in protecting access to abortion and stopping unnecessary state laws that intrude on a woman's ability to exercise her constitutiona..."

"Sadly, we know that anti-abortion restrictions fall hardest on those who already face significant barriers to health care: low-income women, women of color, LGBTQ people, young people, and people livi..."

"We need a statute that makes it clear that we are going to have fact-based medically-based scientifically-based regulations, not these underhanded tactics to shut clinics and block women from care."