“As your senator I will strongly resist any further attempt to erode women’s reproductive rights. Early in my career I did obstetrics. (Notice I did not say deliver babies, as my wife Sara always reminds me, it’s the women who deliver the babies!) The right to an abortion is a fundamental healthcare right for women. I recall numerous patients—a pre-teen victim of sexual abuse by a foster father, a woman literally attacked by a once-friendly boss late one night (and afraid to report it to the authorities), a pregnant woman who spent the night bleeding heavily in the ICU—where patients and their families, along with their physicians, made a decision to terminate the pregnancy. It must remain a woman’s right to make such a serious decision. And simply declaring exceptions for women…”