Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “From the moment I was elected, I have felt that I accept a certain level of risk in doing this job.”

In the political context that we're in, in an administration that is dedicated to politicizing women's bodies and taking our choices away from us and punishing us around decisions to be pregnant or not be pregnant.

No American should be too poor to live.

I think it’s important for us as leaders to have these conversations and share these processes, especially for working women across the country, and normalize them.

Of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.