“I had a very difficult time in both of my deliveries, and I nearly died each time giving birth. The maternal rate for Black women — they’re three times more likely to die than white women giving birth. And in Kansas, our infant mortality rate and our maternal mortality rate is closer to the numbers you’ll see in Turkey, which is not considered a developed country. So before we go on to a forced-birth agenda, we need to make sure we have the ability to get women to the point of being pregnant, to the point of giving birth, and beyond that, to the point of healing. And we don’t do that. And as I nearly died both times, these are not exaggerations. I can prove it with my medical records. I would not impose that risk on someone else who did not want it or did not need it. I would be…”

“…I’m Pro-Choice.”