We had been raising the issue privately, ... and as part of raising difficult issues that we need to discuss, I felt it was appropriate.

It would be very difficult, and I said this to you privately and I said it publicly, for me to vote to confirm someone whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade, because I remember - and many of the young women here don't - what it was like when abortion was illegal in America,

[The issue has raised] many difficult and novel policy and regulatory issues, ... We need to resolve these policy and regulatory questions before we can reach a decision on the underlying science.

It's a very, very difficult issue,

But it's a delicate issue and a difficult issue.

It makes deciphering issues much more difficult.