Political Quotes

“This is not a women's issue or a men's issue. It is an issue for what is right. People have a right to make health choices. If someone doesn't believe in abortion, then make that choice for yourself. If someone believes in something else, then they have the right to make that choice. So eligibility for title X funding should be based on a provider's ability to provide family planning services, period. Whether a provider offers safe and legal abortions with private funds should not be used to prevent women and men from getting preventive care like cancer screenings or HIV tests. That is all the rule requires. It should not be controversial. Yet, here we are. What effect would this Congressional Review Act have? Well, Kansas has given us an ominous preview. When Kansas defunded providers that offered abortion services, the number of Kansans accessing cancer screenings, STI tests, and other care through the title X program plummeted by thousands. A vote for this CRA is a vote to multiply that number. The Americans who will be affected by this CRA will lose the opportunity to see the provider of their choice, sometimes the only viable provider. Why would we want to put women--why would we want to put anybody in that category, where they cannot see the only viable provider because someone else doesn't like what the doctor can do? I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.'' My Republican friends always talk about individual freedom and how important it is.…”