[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 207 (Wednesday, December 1, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6723]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

  (Ms. KUSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KUSTER. Madam Speaker, the Supreme Court is poised to make one of 
the most consequential rulings for women and their bodies in over a 
generation. For nearly 50 years, women have come to rely upon the 
precedent of Roe v. Wade and the freedom to make their own reproductive 
decisions without government interference in our personal lives. Now 
our freedoms are under attack as the Court considers a case asking for 
Roe v. Wade to be overturned.
  As an adoption attorney for 25 years, I worked with more than 300 
birth mothers making the most difficult and personal decision of their 
lives. They consulted family, loved ones, and doctors, but not one 
birth mother looked to the government to make that choice for her.
  Earlier this year we passed the Women's Health Protection Act, 
legislation to codify the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion. 
Regardless of the Court's decision, we must make this bill law to 
permanently protect the reproductive freedoms of women across this 
land.

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