Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, I don't believe that we have noted yet in the course of this debate the great irony, the fact that this is called the CHOICE Arrangement Act, that we have some pro-choice Republicans here who want to give employers the choice and allow them to discriminate against different classes of their own employees. All of this is happening the same horrible anniversary week of the Supreme Court's wrongful decision to overturn decades of reliance upon Roe v. Wade and to eliminate the right to an abortion with an effect on women's healthcare that is so far-reaching that it is affecting our colleges of medicine across the country and delivery of healthcare to women who may never have been involved in the slightest way with an abortion. {time} 1700 They called this healthcare freedom today. I call it the repression and the interference with the basic healthcare rights of women. By the terms of their own amendment, patients and doctors should make healthcare decisions, not government bureaucrats or insurance companies. The CHOICE Arrangement Act comes at the same time that they interfere with what happens in our bedrooms and our doctors' offices and, most recently, even in our kitchens. They would sentence patients under this basic legislation with preexisting conditions to a future of very few choices and no freedom.…”