[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6403]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           WOMEN MUST HAVE SAME HEALTH CARE RIGHTS AS MEN DO

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, today, many of us are introducing a bill 
to protect women's health and the constitutional right to choose. It 
saddens me that this bill is necessary.
  Mr. Speaker, I am one of the few Members who was here when Roe versus 
Wade came down and we started finally getting politics out of doctors' 
offices and medical schools, and we said to politicians, ``Really women 
need some advances in their health care, and they don't need political 
opinions. We would like medical opinions, the same kind men get.''
  Well, we made those terrific gains, and now we see the extremism 
coming back in this whole new primary era, and what is the 
battleground? The battleground once is women's health and trying to 
roll us back.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill is saying we will not go back. It codifies the 
gains that we have, and we hope every Member who believes women should 
be full and equal citizens and have the same health care rights that 
men should have will join us in saying to the extreme right: ``No, no, 
you don't play in women's health care. Keep your politics somewhere 
else.''
  We hope many of you will join us in this bill.

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