[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 165 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5105]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SAY NO TO ABORTION ON DEMAND

  (Mr. HERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HERN. Mr. Speaker, in what is, no doubt, a knee-jerk reaction to 
the recent legislative victory to protect unborn life in the State of 
Texas, Democrats have introduced the Women's Health Protection Act. 
However, we know what this piece of legislation really should be 
called, the abortion on demand act.
  H.R. 3755 completely strips State legislatures of their autonomy to 
write the laws of their own State and will, in effect, make all 50 
States late-term abortion States.
  Not only is this a gross overreach of the Federal authority, a direct 
violation of States' rights to decide their own laws, it is just plain 
wrong.
  Provisions in H.R. 3755 include the elimination of laws requiring 
parental involvement in a minor's decision to abort a baby, laws 
preventing abortions based on a baby's sex or diagnosis with a mental 
disability, as well as laws preventing dismemberment abortions.
  It is clear that this bill has nothing to do with protecting women's 
health; rather, it is the result of Democrats bending the knee to the 
unethical abortion industry.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the abortion on demand act.

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