[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 8, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H746]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE

  (Mrs. FLETCHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)


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  February 8, 2023, on page H746, in the first column, the 
following appeared: I wish you many more years to come with your 
family, and I thank you for your time and your dedication. (Mrs. 
FLETCHER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: I wish you many 
more years to come with your family, and I thank you for your time 
and your dedication. ------ REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE (Mrs. FLETCHER 
asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute 
and to revise and extend her remarks.)


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  Mrs. FLETCHER. Madam Speaker, for 1\1/2\ years now, people in Texas 
who are able to do so have been traveling out of State to obtain 
abortion care, and now that 15 other States have banned abortion, more 
people are traveling even farther to get the reproductive healthcare 
that they need.
  In response to this exercise of the constitutional right to travel, 
lawmakers and others in Texas--and in States across the country--are 
threatening to take away that right, too.
  These threats fail not only to reflect the will of the majority of 
people in this country, these threats fail to recognize the fundamental 
rights of Americans guaranteed in our Constitution.
  Congress has the authority and the responsibility to protect people 
from these unconstitutional efforts to prevent, restrict, impede, or 
otherwise punish a person traveling to another State to obtain a legal 
abortion and to protect healthcare providers and others who assist that 
person.
  Last week, I reintroduced the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive 
Freedom Act which passed this House last year with Congresswoman 
Marilyn Strickland, Congressman Jamie Raskin, and more than 150 
original cosponsors.
  Madam Speaker, I urge the House to pass this bill, once again, to 
protect this fundamental right.

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