On the adjournment and on making sure that the good work of this committee continues, I am 100% for that. What I would like to say is that, to me, this should have been a very simple, very quick motion. To say that standing up for a woman's right over her own body is political or politicizing and that it would somehow take time out of this committee is very disappointing to me.
I have a family member who had to go in front five male doctors in the eighties to have them tell her that she could not have an abortion, and she almost committed suicide. She was part of the Morgentaler decision. This is a close family member of mine. I grew up knowing that this was something that she fought for; for me, for our generation and for future generations to have this right.
For anyone in this committee to say that this is politicizing, that a woman's right to choose—which is a hard-fought right—is somehow politicizing, I find that very offensive. It should have been that we could have gone to a vote instantly, maybe a few of us would have commented on it and then we would have all supported it. That's what should have happened today. It should have taken five minutes. Since it's not—