Teresa Leger Fernandez: “As we begin Women's History Month, we must remember something historic that has happened to women and to women's…”

“As we begin Women's History Month, we must remember something historic that has happened to women and to women's freedoms. For 50 years, women enjoyed limited but certain reproductive freedoms. A Trump-packed Supreme Court overturned that history, overturned Roe v. Wade, and all of a sudden history, a sad history was made when for the first time in history women lost an essential right. We are going back to a very sad time when women cannot make decisions about how and when and if to have a family without governmental interference. We are going back to a sad time in history when women who were suffering complications from pregnancy, who were suffering miscarriages, cannot get healthcare, but instead, get handcuffs. We are suffering a sad time in history when IVF is now prohibited in places like Alabama; and let us remind everybody, almost 200 Republicans in this very Chamber have voted for, have cosponsored legislation which mirrors the Alabama law, which prohibits IVF. As we begin Women's History Month, let's not turn back the clock on women's progress. ____________________”