down not just a peg but take them in shackles to some cave somewhere. 25 years ago this body passed emtala now my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to amend that law and basically say, oh, except for a woman who is in need of an abortion or except for a woman who's bleeding to death who happens to be pregnant or except for a woman who is miscarrying. basically, what this bill would do is say that any hospital could decline to provide services to one class of people in this country, and that one class of people are pregnant women. now, let me tell you something. my story is pretty well known now. but i was pregnant. i was miscarrying. i was bleeding. if i had to go from one hospital to the next, trying to find one emergency room that would take me in, who knows if i would even be here today? and what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are attempting to do is misogynist. it is absolutely misogynist. the time has come for us to stop taking up this issue over and over again this year and do something that the american people really care about. they want jobs. they want t