[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 28, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H1441-H1442]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   NO TAXPAYER FUNDS FOR ABORTION ACT

  (Ms. LEE of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. LEE of California. Madam Speaker, here we go again. Instead of 
working with President Obama and Democrats to create jobs, economic 
opportunities, and fight poverty, extreme Tea Party Republicans are at 
it again, attacking women's health care and reproductive rights. Yes, 
it is another battle in the war on women.
  Instead of working together to extend unemployment benefits, here we 
are today debating another dangerous and divisive attempt to strip away 
the rights of women.
  Madam Speaker, Congress currently imposes unfair limitations on 
insurance coverage of abortion and, through the Hyde amendment, that is 
a fact, even though I personally think we should get rid of all these 
restrictions.
  Yet this bill, H.R. 7, creates an unprecedented interference in the 
lives of women and their families by restricting coverage for women's 
health in private insurance plans.
  It specifically attacks low-income women in the District of Columbia 
by permanently, mind you, permanently prohibiting the District from 
spending

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its purely local funds on abortions for low-income women.
  How many of you would want the Federal Government to restrict your 
funding in your local districts for any health care benefits for women?
  It codifies the harmful Helms amendment. Enough is enough.

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