Sean Patrick Maloney: “There are currently over 20,000 women serving overseas. Each one of these women deserves the best available health care…”

“There are currently over 20,000 women serving overseas. Each one of these women deserves the best available health care services; but under current law, women serving overseas effectively lose their constitutional right to choose at U.S. military bases where they literally cannot even pay for this medical procedure with their own money. This amendment reverses a discriminatory policy against women. While women are bravely serving this country overseas, some Members of this body, many of whom have never served in the military, are voting to take away the constitutional rights that they enjoy in this country. It is wrong to take away their rights merely because they are in the military service. Let us put this vote in perspective. It is one of over 200 anti-choice, anti-woman votes that have passed this Congress since the Republican majority took control in 1994.”