[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 22, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H186-H187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    40TH ANNIVERSARY OF ROE V. WADE

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, today, we mark the 
40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision which enshrined 
a realm of personal privacy that is deeply connected to the personal 
freedoms that we hold dear in this country. As one Justice put it, it's 
the simple right to be left alone.
  The right to choose is meaningless without access to choose. Yet the 
Republican-led Congress has chipped away at access, voting 10 times to 
limit access in the last Congress to a woman's basic right. Last year, 
there were 43 laws that were passed in 19 States that would restrict 
access to a woman's right to choose.
  This past election, women made it loud and clear that the right to 
choose is one that they believe in, and that is

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a basic right that the majority of Americans hold dear and will uphold 
with their votes in every election.

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