[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 121 (Thursday, July 21, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H6925-H6926]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   PROTECT RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS

  (Ms. DEAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DEAN. Madam Speaker, it has been nearly a month since the Supreme 
Court inexplicably overturned a woman's 50-year right to her private 
reproductive healthcare decisions--abortion care.

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  In this month, we have heard many on the other side spread 
frightening disinformation like Democrats want abortion on demand. No, 
Democrats want freedom and choice for women to make their own 
reproductive decisions.
  Meanwhile, they ignore or don't care about the fact that women are 
scared, terrified that they may lose access to very personal 
reproductive healthcare medications and procedures.
  So, it is necessary that we pass the Right to Contraception Act, 
which will guarantee the right to get and use birth control, whether it 
is birth control pills, IUDs, or emergency contraceptives.
  It is maddening that we even have to vote on this, that a woman's 
right to birth control could even be in question, that a privacy right 
is even up for political debate. But in this brave new world, this is 
where we are.

  I support this legislation to protect the rights of our daughters and 
granddaughters, nieces and friends, women and girls everywhere.

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