[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 116 (Thursday, July 14, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6513]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                WE MUST FIGHT TO RESTORE ABORTION RIGHTS

  (Mr. LEVIN of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEVIN of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my pure outrage 
at this extremist, right-wing majority of the Supreme Court stripping 
one of the most important rights in this country away from people: the 
right to have an abortion. This decision endangers marginalized 
communities and strips the bodily autonomy away from millions of 
Americans, including my own 17-year-old daughter. We must not rest 
until we restore people's freedom to control their own bodies and their 
own decisions.
  I want to emphasize that abortion is still legal in Michigan. The 
very day that Roe was overturned in the Dobbs decision, our biggest 
health system, Beaumont-Spectrum, announced that they would end 
abortion services, counter to current Michigan law.
  I worked privately and publicly to reverse that, and, happily, they 
did so the same weekend.
  We will fight to restore abortion rights, to maintain them in all the 
States where they still exist. This is a fight for all of us, and it is 
up to us to protect everyone's rights.

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