May 29, 2019
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These are
draconian
abortion bans
Editor’s note: The following
speech by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Ore. was delivered last week
on the Senate floor in Washing-
ton, D.C., against the recent
passage of some of the nation’s
strictest abortion bans in U.S.
history:
by u.s. s en . r on
W yDen
Right now in state
capitals across the coun-
try, Republican lawmak-
ers are passing extreme
bills that throw 45 years
of settled law on reproductive
rights out the window. This is an
open, coordinated attack on Roe
and a woman’s right to choose
the healthcare she needs.
These Republican lawmakers
are passing bills that are not only
harmful, but are overwhelming-
ly opposed by the public -- bills
with harsh criminal penalties for
women and doctors. Bills with
no exceptions for cases of rape
or incest. Bills that explicitly
compare women getting medical
care to the Holocaust.
Let’s be clear on what this is
all about.
The party of Donald Trump is
insisting on government control
of women’s bodies.
That’s what’s on the table
with the laws you’re seeing in
Alabama, Georgia, Missouri and
elsewhere. Government control
of women’s bodies.
Millions and millions of wom-
en across the country
are watching in an-
ger and in fear as this
plays out. I’ve heard
from many of them
back home in Oregon.
They’re afraid for the
future - their futures,
their families’ futures - because
they know what’s at stake with
this attack on their rights.
First, it puts women’s lives in
danger. The reality is, abortions
will still happen in states that
pass these laws, but those abor-
tions will happen later and they
will be unsafe.
Women will die. That is a fact.
Women will die because of these
restrictions.
If you need proof, just look at
the figures before and after Roe.
In the decades before Roe, thou-
sands and thousands of women
died due to unsafe abortions - and
those are only the ones we know
about. What about the unnamed,
unknown victims of that misguid-
ed policy? After Roe was decided
in 1973, women’s health care got
safer. Now they are talking about
undermining that safety.
Second, in key ways, the fu-
ture these restrictive laws are
creating is worse for women and
health care professionals than
before Roe.
They are talking about jailing
doctors for life. They are talking
about treating women like hard-
ened criminals after they get a
medical procedure. Women in
some places are facing the pros-
pect that they might need to re-
port miscarriages to the govern-
ment, or else they could wind up
in prison.
The other side in this debate
paints a picture of women exer-
cising their right to choose that
is unfair and unrealistic. This is
an incredibly difficult choice.
Many women exercising their
right to choose have just been hit
with the most devastating medi-
cal news that prospective parents
can face. It is not up to state law-
makers and government bureau-
crats to step in and interfere in
that choice.
But that’s exactly what’s on
offer with the laws being passed
in statehouses around the coun-
try. These laws bind and punish
women with a level of govern-
ment control that did not exist
before Roe. This is straight out
of nightmarish fiction.
This coordinated attack on
women’s rights is cruel and dan-
gerous. Abortion and other re-
productive decisions are health
care, and health care choices
ought to be made by women with
the help of the doctors they trust.
Not the federal government. Not
state lawmakers.
Women and their doctors --
that’s it.
My Democratic colleagues
and I are going to fight against
this at the federal level with
everything we’ve got. Women
across the country are standing
up and fighting with everything
they’ve got.
The government should not
have control of women’s bodies.
End of story.
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