[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 81 (Thursday, May 12, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      ACCESS TO SAFE ABORTION CARE

  (Mr. POCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POCAN. Madam Speaker, the leaked Supreme Court document shows a 
complete disregard by the Court majority for the fundamental right to 
control one's own body by having access to safe abortion care.
  In Wisconsin, the end of Roe v. Wade would drag us back to 1849, when 
our State law banning abortion was enacted and is still on the books.
  In 1849, in Wisconsin, the first telegraph was received, there was a 
6\1/2\ cent tax on every vehicle drawn by a single horse, and railroad 
tracks were constructed going west for the first time outside of 
Milwaukee.
  My constituents, like the vast majority of Americans, don't want to 
go back. They want healthcare decisions to be made by laws that weren't 
passed when slavery was legal. They want women to have full access to 
modern healthcare, and that means access to safe abortion care.

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