[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 166 (Friday, September 24, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5164]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 TEXAS WOMEN ARE UNITED STATES CITIZENS

  (Mr. RASKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, the women of Texas are citizens of the 
United States, but they are being treated like outlaws by their own 
legislature.
  Under the Texas law, any person, including murderers, serial rapists, 
sexual harassers, January 6 insurrectionists, or Texas State 
legislators themselves, can sue doctors, nurses, mothers, fathers, 
medical personnel, simply for helping a woman in Texas exercise her 
constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey 
for $10,000.
  You want to give $10,000 to a total stranger for helping your 
daughter through a personal crisis caused by a rape? Move to Texas.
  You want to join the GOP in turning America into a nation of 
theocratic busybodies and vigilante bounty hunters policing other 
people's families? Go right ahead.
  But for me, I am standing with the Constitution of the United States. 
I am voting for the Women's Health Protection Act, and I am proud that 
we are passing it today.

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