Political Quotes

“Madam President, over the past couple of months, we have seen State legislatures around the country taking drastic, unconstitutional steps to insert themselves into personal, private healthcare decisions that should be--and have been in the past--between a woman and her doctor. Ohio and Georgia, two States that wouldn't seem on the surface to have that much in common, have both passed laws that would fundamentally eliminate a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions. Who made these laws? It is always the same. It is predominantly men who don't even understand how women's bodies and how preventive care like birth control work. We have one Ohio legislator, a man, who sponsored a bill banning insurance companies from covering certain types of birth control, and then he admitted he didn't really know how birth control actually works. When asked about the different kinds of medications and birth control devices, he said: ``I don't know because I'm not smart enough to know.'' But he thinks he should make decisions for women. You would think he is smart enough to know better. You would think that millions of Ohio women know best how to take care of their own bodies. He was also making up medical procedures. He actually wrote into a version of the Ohio bill an exception allowing insurance companies to cover a made-up medical procedure where a doctor would reimplant an egg from an ectopic pregnancy. This is a total fantasy.…”