Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, here we are back at the same old stand. Women, if the Republican Congress has anything to say about it, will not have the right to choose. They found a place where they could pick on people who did not even have a representative who could vote, and so they have taken it away. Now, anybody, as the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Furse) says, who has been through this knows what a difficult choice it is. It is even more difficult for a physician taking care of a patient who realizes that they cannot recommend the thing that ought to happen. Now, can these women go to New York State and get an abortion? Well, if they have the money, they can. Can they go to Illinois; can they go to Indiana; can they go anywhere else? Yes, but they have to travel, 300, 400, 500, 600 miles away from their home, away from their physician, to have it done in some place all by themselves. Why? Simply because the Republicans want to take it out on women. They want to make them have babies. And then we watch this Congress operate with welfare reform. We do not want to feed them. We do not want to take care of them. Poor women who say ``I am not prepared to have a baby'' or ``I am sick'' or ``It is going to cause a problem for me and my other children'' or whatever, they have to have a baby or they have to travel somewhere. Why?”