[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 11, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H167-H168]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

  (Mrs. TRAHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. TRAHAN. Madam Speaker, in every State where abortion rights were 
on the ballot last year, Americans voted to protect lifesaving 
reproductive care.
  In Republican strongholds like Kentucky and Montana, voters rejected 
attempts to restrict or ban abortion. In Vermont, Michigan, and 
California, voters codified abortion rights into their State 
constitutions.
  After such a resounding defeat for anti-abortion politicians, you 
would think that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would 
have gotten the message.
  But rather than listening to voters and bringing forward legislation 
to codify the reproductive rights our mothers and grandmothers fought 
so hard for, the new Republican majority is catering to demands of 
extreme Members in their conference who have called for a national 
abortion ban.
  The partisan bills on the floor today will do nothing to protect 
women. Instead, they will undermine access to

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reproductive care that millions of women rely on.
  Madam Speaker, the women we represent deserve better. Our daughters 
deserve better. I urge my colleagues to oppose these pieces of 
legislation.

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