Elizabeth Furse: “we can learn from our elders. Our first citizens, native Americans, have a phrase that I think bears repeating in this…”

“we can learn from our elders. Our first citizens, native Americans, have a phrase that I think bears repeating in this place: Do not judge a person until you have walked a mile in their moccasins. So I say to the Members who are pushing this ban, they are probably very sincere but most of them do not know what they are talking about. They do not know the agony of a late failed pregnancy. They do not know in what circumstances a physician may have to counsel a family in order to protect the health of a particular woman. They do not know about the choices families must make when they have to choose between a woman's health and a badly damaged fetus. So, my colleagues, I say it is time we step into the shoes of those women, of those families, of those doctors. It is time politicians stop making decisions that are best made by families, by women, by physicians. It is time to get the Government off the backs of our citizens. It is time to listen to the 38,000 Members of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, because they do know and they are opposed to this ban. I would urge my colleagues to join those doctors and oppose this ban.”