[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 83 (Friday, May 17, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H3955]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     COMMIT TO REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

  (Mrs. FLETCHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. FLETCHER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the women of 
this country, for their health and for their rights.
  In this Congress, in this House, we have worked to ensure women's 
access to healthcare, to protect women and men with preexisting 
conditions, to lower the cost of prescription drugs, and to make 
healthcare more affordable and accessible. But in State houses across 
the country, women's access to their most basic healthcare is under 
attack. And it is not just their healthcare that is under attack; it is 
their equality.
  The law passed in the Alabama State House this week is the most 
extreme and dangerous since Roe v. Wade, banning abortion at any point 
in pregnancy and threatening doctors with life in prison.
  It is not just this Alabama law; it is laws in Georgia, Mississippi, 
and my home State of Texas, and the efforts of the current 
administration that result in a dramatic reduction in women's access to 
reproductive healthcare and basic family planning services and a denial 
of their reproductive rights.
  Doctors and public health leaders agree that the cost of these laws 
will be women's lives. We cannot let that happen.
  As we work to protect our care, we must support the women of this 
country and their right to safe, affordable, nonjudgmental reproductive 
healthcare. We must commit to reproductive justice.

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