Political Quotes

“I rise to join my colleagues and want to thank my colleague, Senator Murray, for her leadership on this important issue over many, many years. I join my colleagues to say it is time to put partisan politics aside and stay out of family planning issues and leave that up to families in America. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle had an opportunity today to believe that women deserve the chance to start a family through IVF, the miracle for people who have been struggling with fertility challenges. In 2022, more than 2,000 new babies were born in the State of Washington thanks to IVF. This is something we would like to see every year. But as the Court has struck down important issues and States have gone on various efforts to try to restrict women's access to healthcare and full reproductive care, IVF has even been questioned. Practically everyone knows someone who overcame the challenge desperate to have a pregnancy and the sadness of infertility. And that is probably why 86 percent of Americans say that IVF should be legal. This afternoon, we voted on that right, the Right to IVF Act. That is what we were voting on, a straightforward vote. One of those that would just show the American people, the mainstream of America, that we agree with them. That is all we were trying to do, as people have punted around this very important right that now, because of actions by individual States, no longer seems to be guaranteed.…”