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Who have stepped forward. i want to say in conclusion to the men of america, for you i hope this will be a teaching moment. not to denigrate anyone who has been a survivor of sexual assault. but to lift them up. i want to enter into the record the story of a number of constituents of mine whose pain, sadness, shame, self-doubt, guilt, fear, are powerfully attested to in these statements, mr. chairman. they are the heroes here. dr. blasey ford is a profile in courage and i want to say to her

The sight of the man who drugged me and sexually assaulted me coming into the basketball office filled me with dread. on the deposition, during the civil trial, i had to relive every moment of the sexual assault in horrifying detail in front of mr. cosby and his lawyers. i felt traumatized all over again and was often in tears. i had to watch cosby make jokes and attempt to degrade and diminish me while his lawyers belittled and sneered at me. this is so much of why many accusers say they never come forward. they never tell anybody. they never come out publicly and say this man did that to me,...

Impact, she says when the sexual assault happened, i was a young woman brimming with confidence and looking forward to a future bright with possibilities. now almost 15 years later, i'm a middle-aged woman who's been stuck in a holding pattern for most of her adult life, unable to heal fully or to move forward. why didn't she report it at the time, which is something we keep hearing when accusers come out. we've heard it for the brett kavanaugh accusers, from the president. why didn't she report it at the time? here's what andrea constand says of why she didn't report her cosby interactions at...

All i want now is what the court sees as justice. it was a very simple, elegant, but powerful statement. i'm sure the judge was very moved by all that. and that, along with so many other reasons, is why bill cosby is apparently going to jail for three to ten years. >> and how much her victim impact statement sounds like other women who say i didn't come out for this reason. i delayed my reporting for that reason. i was afraid to speak up because of the shame. i was afraid to speak up because of the self-doubt. i was afraid to speak up because i thought i would lose my family or my friends or i...

But i found bladder leak underwear that's actually pretty. always discreet boutique. hidden inside is a super absorbent core that quickly turns liquid to gel. so i feel protected and pretty. always discreet boutique. concerned across europe and the world that americans laying down the mantle of global leadership. and we should not count each other out. we must be proven but we cannot wring our hands and wallow in self doubt.