[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 13, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4545]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                ABORTION

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, shortly after the news leaked that the 
U.S. Supreme Court was ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, Leader McConnell 
acknowledged that a Federal ban on abortion was now ``possible''--his 
words. Well, later today, the senior Senator from South Carolina is 
going to make good on Leader McConnell's warning by introducing a 
radical bill to institute a nationwide restriction on abortions.
  Proposals like the one today send a clear message from MAGA 
Republicans to women across the country: your body, our choice. Rather 
than expanding women's rights, MAGA Republicans would curtail them 
rather than give individuals the freedom to make their own healthcare 
choices. They hand that power over to radical politicians.
  And let me add this. Republicans are twisting themselves into 
pretzels trying to explain why they want nationwide abortion bans when 
they said they would leave it up to the States. Even the senior Senator 
from South Carolina said a few months ago that ``if the Supreme Court 
overturns Roe v. Wade,'' it would mean that ``every state will decide 
if abortion is legal and on what terms.'' And yet here he is, 
introducing a bill to restrict abortions nationally.
  For the hard right, this has never been about States' rights. This 
has never been about letting Texas choose its own path while California 
takes another. No, for MAGA Republicans this has always been about 
making abortion illegal everywhere.
  The contrast has become clear. While Democrats want to protect a 
woman's freedom to choose, MAGA Republicans want to take that right 
away with proposals to ban abortions, to punish women and doctors for 
carrying out abortions, and even to push bans with no exceptions for 
rape or incest.
  We are seeing it play out across the country. It is chilling--
chilling--to the bone. Every single American should stand in opposition 
against these radical MAGA Republican views.

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