Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin called out colleagues who threatened to vote against a veterans bill because women's healthcare was included. #veterans #abortion #politics #news
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00:00If you want to take a veterans bill and make it about abortion, then let's do it.
00:04Not one of you are a medical doctor. Not one of you.
00:08What the VA guidelines say is that if you've been raped or the victim of incest or a medical
00:13professional deems that your pregnancy is a risk to your health, the one of four women in this
00:19country who has had a miscarriage, probably many women in this room, that you are a better judge
00:26of who gets to decide the future of their life and not a medical doctor, who do you think you are?
00:34You are politicians. We are all, on this floor, elected officials and not medical professionals.
00:41If it was your wife, your daughter, who was suffering through a miscarriage,
00:46are you going to tell her she can't until her fever gets high enough, until she's bleeding
00:50harder? That's what's happening in the state of Texas right now. If that's what you want
00:55for veterans, shame on you. Shame on you.