In response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting a woman's right to choose, Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott joined as an original co-sponsor in the re-introduction of the Freedom of Choice Act in the House of Representatives.

"As a medical doctor who has witnessed first hand the horrors of what can happen if a woman cannot freely choose a course of action in consultation with a health professional, I am gravely concerned when the Supreme Court votes to insert itself into the room with a doctor and patient," McDermott said. "We must pass the Freedom of Choice Act to codify the historic- and ethically appropriate- Roe v. Wade decision."

The Freedom of Choice Act was introduced in the House by a close colleague to McDermott, Democrat Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who is the chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., introduced the companion bill in the Senate.

"We have plenty of evidence of what happens when government forces its way into the lives and medical decisions affecting women," McDermott said.

"Women deserve the right to choose," McDermott said. "They deserve the right to choose in private with their doctor, and not the U.S. Supreme Court listening in and making medical decisions. (This) decision criminalizes doctors and that is a threat that is unjustified, unethical, and wholly inappropriate."