Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for the recognition. Let's be clear about the Affordable Care Act. The EMTALA provision of the underlying law, the Affordable Care Act, is not actually the EMTALA provision because it puts in a great big loophole. The loophole is in the language of the law, and it said providing emergency services as required by State or Federal law, which may be changed; and therein is the problem. Most of us remember the night before the Affordable Care Act passed. We remember the drama of Bart Stupak going down to the White House. We remember the drama of the Executive order. So what Mr. Pitts is providing us today is the ability to put the language of the Executive order into legislative language and make it law so that it may not be arbitrarily changed by this President or some other President at a future time. Now, I want to take just a few moments and read into the Record from doctors who have written to our committee, doctors who provide emergency services, obstetric services, who tell us over and over again that they have never been required to do something that was against their conscience and put someone's life in danger. A doctor from the University of Minnesota writes in: During my years of practice, I have worked under informal and formal conscience rights protections that permit me to provide the best pregnancy care without being forced to perform abortions.…”