[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 118 (Monday, July 18, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6704]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        SUPPORTING BIRTH CONTROL

  (Ms. BROWNLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. BROWNLEY. Madam Speaker, last month, the extreme and radical wing 
of the Republican Party and the Supreme Court took a dangerous and 
detrimental strike against women's reproductive rights by overturning 
Roe v. Wade and dismantling decades of healthcare and privacy 
protections, and they are not stopping there.
  In his opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas threatened American women 
that the Supreme Court will no longer protect the right to birth 
control.
  Nearly all women in the United States use contraceptives at least 
once during their lifetime and an estimated 65 percent of women use a 
form of birth control every single day.
  This is but another egregious component of the radical Republican 
agenda to restrict women's rights and the fundamental right to her 
bodily autonomy.
  This is why I am supporting the Right to Contraception Act, and I 
urge all of my colleagues to vote ``yes'' to protect access to birth 
control.
  House Democrats will not be deterred in the fight for the health, 
safety, and reproductive freedom of women and every American.

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