[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 163 (Tuesday, September 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4564]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        TEXAS ANTI-ABORTION LAW

  (Mr. RASKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RASKIN. Madam Speaker, I rise in very strong support of the 
Women's Health Protection Act.
  Today in Texas a law has been put into place that transforms 
essentially everyone in the country into potential bounty hunters who 
can go and collect $10,000 by reporting on doctors, nurses, or family 
members who helped a woman exercise her constitutional right to seek an 
abortion in consultation with her physician.
  There is not even an exception for rape and incest under the 
draconian Texas anti-abortion law. A 15-year-old girl could be raped by 
her farther or her uncle and then have her mother go and take her to 
get an abortion, and the rapist--her father or uncle--could sue them 
for $10,000. Or anybody could sue them for $10,000.
  We need to codify Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey to 
guarantee the constitutional rights of women against the new onslaught 
against reproductive freedom and women's healthcare in the United 
States.

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