[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 28, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1443]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  NO TAXPAYER FUNDING OF ABORTION ACT

  (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. Madam Speaker, for years, the 
other side of the aisle has been trying to get between a woman and her 
doctor. Now they are trying to come between a woman and her health 
insurance company. They want to open a new front in the war on women, 
and this one cruelly focuses on poor women.
  The law of the land is already clear: no Federal funding for 
abortions. But with H.R. 7, which will be on the floor today, even 
private insurance plans could be restricted from covering abortion if 
you get a government subsidy. So if you are a low-income woman who 
needs help affording health care insurance, this bill is aimed squarely 
at you.
  Rather than tackling the real the problems of economic growth and job 
creation, the other side of the aisle seems obsessed with curbing a 
woman's reproductive rights. They may not want to call this a war on 
women, but I would point out to my colleagues that women--and only 
women--are the casualties of this multifaceted assault on a woman's 
right to choose and reproductive rights.

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