Political Quotes

“I come to the floor to defend a woman's right to choose. I am beyond frustrated that this debate is even happening tonight. According to statistics from the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network, there are over 433,000 victims of rape and sexual assault on average each year in the United States of America. They have found that every 73 seconds an American is sexually assaulted. When someone wants to chip away at the rights of American women to have access to healthcare, my State is going to take it personally. My State has codified Roe v. Wade into law. They have fought for these rights in a vote by the people of our State in the 1990s. So with a process today that is unfolding here in the Senate where someone wants to roll back those rights and propose a different way of life in the United States of America, we women are going to fight back. The truth is, the majority of Americans support a woman's right to choose. The majority of States support a woman's right to choose, in what their public believes. It is a minority and a minority on this floor who does not support that and would love to have a judicial process that shortcuts active debate about the issues that are in the mainstream views of Americans. These statistics and these issues are almost 50 years of law about a healthcare delivery system that allows a woman to make this choice. It is from those statistics I just read you. There are darn good reasons they want to make those choices.…”