"I know what it’s like to lie in bed at night, wondering if I was the one who had done something wrong. I know what it’s like years later to remember… - Jackie Speier

It's time to be more than a weekend wife and mother and friend and it's time to pass the torch to a new generation.

I really planned to speak about something else but the gentleman from New Jersey just put my stomach in knots because I'm one of those women he spoke about just now [...] I had a procedure at 17 weeks pregnant with a child who moved from the vagina into the cervix. And that procedure that you just described is a procedure that I endured.
I lost the baby [...] And for you to stand on this floor and suggest that somehow this is a procedure that is either welcomed or done cavalierly or done without any thought, is preposterous. [...] Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide services for family planning. Planned Parenthood has a right to offer abortions [...] Last time I checked, abortions were legal in this country.

There are more chapters in my life book. And I look forward to writing those chapters with the people l know and love