Over the course of my seventeen years as a physician, I have always put my patients first. It is an honor and privilege to have the training to be able to help people when they are in their greatest need. I have helped deliver babies. I have prayed with families while their loved ones passed away in their arms. And I have also helped women who would have died without an abortion. I have seen families and women struggle with decisions of abortion and reproductive health.

These, and other decisions regarding a woman's body, should be hers alone, with the advice of her healthcare provider. The exam room is no place for politicians and the government to be.

Every day I am in Congress, if you give me the honor of serving you, I will fight to make sure that women have access to reproductive health, that they can make their personal health decisions free of political interference and I will never play games or be coy with these serious issues for political gain. I will always fight to protect a woman’s constitutional right to make their own personal health decisions.