Political Quotes

“I feel like asking this body to wake me up when this is all over. Wake me up when you finish choosing what kind of contraception female Federal employees ought to use. The good faith of this body, indeed the sacred vote of this body and of the Senate is at stake. I have just come to the floor to say women are not going to take tampering with their contraceptive health. Look, we agree choice is controversial in this body. But I can tell my colleagues what is not controversial in this body or among the American people, and that is choice of contraceptives. There is a reason; that is because we have got to have a choice of contraception because some of that does not work on some of us. Some of it will make us sick. Some has long-term effects. Some has short term effects. So when Members of this body go into conference and try to make the diaphragm the only contraception that is available to women, they are insulting the women, not only of the Federal Government, but of the United States of America at their core. We are fooling around with women's health when we decide as a body to choose or to limit their choice of contraception. One does not have to be a woman to know that one size does not fit all when it comes to contraception. If we want to preserve women's health, if we want to stop abortion, then the one issue that ought to unite us, pro-life and pro-choice, together is contraception.”