[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 181 (Wednesday, November 13, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H8816]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     STOP PRACTICE OF TELE-ABORTION

  (Mr. WRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WRIGHT. Madam Speaker, the right to terminate a pregnancy has 
become framed as a woman's health issue, and yet, more and more voices 
argue in favor of methods of abortion that place a woman's health at 
great risk, such as tele-abortion, a means of killing an unborn child 
by acquiring abortion drugs and then being coached, through 
telemedicine, on how to use them.
  Simple, except the woman taking the drugs isn't in a medical 
facility. No medical personnel are present. If the drugs don't work as 
planned, and the baby is not stillborn, it may still end up in a 
dumpster, and the mother may end up in an emergency room.
  The obvious danger is why I have filed the Tele-Abortion Prevention 
Act, H.R. 4935. This is commonsense legislation, even more so when one 
considers an FDA report that states that there have been more than 
4,000 cases of serious adverse events, including more than 1,000 that 
required hospitalization.
  If the woman's health argument is really more than subterfuge that 
puts dressing on a tragedy, please join me in passing H.R. 4935, the 
Tele-Abortion Prevention Act.

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