Madeleine Dean: “I come to the floor exhausted and fearful--fearful for women who watch every month as their rights are stripped away…”

“I come to the floor exhausted and fearful--fearful for women who watch every month as their rights are stripped away, fearful for my daughters-in-law, my granddaughters and yours as we deal with the fallout of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, removing decades of freedom, privacy, and dignity. After the Dobbs decision, we warned that other freedoms would follow. Now, a Texas Federal judge is openly undermining the FDA; a Federal judge, not a doctor. Control and cruelty is the point, and they are only getting started. Today, it is an abortion drug. Tomorrow, it is IUDs or hormonal implants, then birth control medications. All of these things, which are used to prevent pregnancy or end one, are lifesaving medical tools that can treat a variety of painful, devastating conditions, including miscarriages. Judges have no right to overrule the personal and professional choices of women and their doctors. Politicians have no right to take options and freedoms away. I trust FDA's 23-year approval. Mostly, Mr. Speaker, I trust medical professionals, and I trust women. ____________________”