[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 27 (Friday, February 17, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H929]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      STANDING WITH WOMEN OF OHIO

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to join my sisters in the State of 
Ohio--women elected officials, small business owners, women activists 
across our State--to speak out against attacks on the ability of women 
to get full health coverage in this country.
  Imagine, we can land an astronaut on the Moon, we can target and 
eliminate Osama bin Laden, but we can't seem to figure out as a society 
how to make sure that women have full health choices in the insurance 
programs of our country.
  It seems that some people just want to keep women in the corner and 
not see the struggles that they have had in preventive health care, in 
full choice for the medications that they take in order that they be 
able to live full and productive lives.
  You know, our grandmother had 16 children. Several of them died. She 
lived to the age of 93. In those days, there were almost no 
medications, and more women died in childbirth than soldiers were lost 
in World War I.
  I think the world has moved beyond closed thinking on women's health. 
I stand with my sisters in Ohio.

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