Rick Glazier's comments on the House floor on July 11, 2013
Out of a purported concern for women’s health, and in light of the constitutional rule of Roe v. Wade, and an ostensible genuflect to the outcry over the process and substance of the Senate bill, the majority, in what it portrays as an admirable exercise of legislative restraint, abstains from passing a bill eliminating abortion access outright. Because, after all, that would have meant a direct constitutional confrontation it was sure to lose. So this bill emerges from yet another rewrite by moonlight to the early morning sun yesterday under the intriguing and wholly non-transparent title of the “Motorcycle Safety Act” with some minimal changes in wording, but as Rep. Ruth Samuelson conceded, “the same intent” as the widely criticized Senate bill.
The result, of course, is precisely the same as the Senate bill and no different than if the bill expressly eliminated access.