Political Quotes

“I rise today to defend once again a woman's right to choose what is best for her own body. Prohibiting interstate travel for an abortion and punishing those who participated in that travel fails to protect the health and safety of women and their children. This bill subjects taxi drivers and bus drivers and other transportation professionals to jail time, mind you, jail time, although they had no knowledge of the activity. Are we in good conscience going to legislate penalties against innocent people who do not have knowledge or control over the actions of their customers? Are we encouraging cabbies and bus drivers to start asking every person, every woman that gets into a cab or on a bus, if they are pregnant or are they going to have an abortion, because they want to limit their liability? Furthermore, Mr. Speaker, how could anyone support this bill knowing that some of these minors, knowing this, that some of these minors may have decided to have an abortion because they have been raped by a family member or a guardian? This is simply bad public policy. It will turn back the clock not only on choice but on privacy for young women.”