Political Quotes

“my amendment is about a really important issue that has not gotten near enough attention for how devastating it will be for women in our country. The Republicans' bill will cut millions of women off from birth control, cancer screenings, essential preventive healthcare--care that they will not be able to afford anywhere else--and it will shutter some 200 healthcare clinics in our country and take another step toward enacting Republicans' plan for a backdoor, nationwide abortion ban. How does it do this? By defunding Planned Parenthood. This is a long-sought goal of anti-choice extremists--no surprise. It is overwhelmingly unpopular with the American people, but Republicans are bent on ripping away any access to abortion care and happy to cut off this lifesaving care, no matter that women may not have another place to get the care that they can't afford or another place they can get any care at all. This amendment that I am offering will strip this awful provision to defund Planned Parenthood from this bill and protect healthcare access to the millions of patients who rely on Planned Parenthood health centers. I urge a ``yes'' vote.”