[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 55 (Monday, March 27, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1456]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ENSHRINE WOMEN'S RIGHTS INTO LAW

  (Ms. STEVENS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, I rise because it is Women's History Month.
  I rise because I returned from Michigan on the heels of a Women's 
History Month event that I held yesterday in Farmington Hills, where I 
looked the women of my district in the face and promised them that I 
would return to the House of Representatives to seek to enshrine their 
rights into law.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise because in the second year of this pandemic, 
maternal mortality increased by 40 percent, and in the following year, 
the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade.
  I rise because four women in Texas are suing for their right to 
bodily autonomy. Women are standing up and saying that they do not want 
to be subject to sepsis while trying to give birth to a child.
  I rise because, in South Carolina, women will be prosecuted to a 
deeper extent than a rapist.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise because I will not stop until we have enshrined 
women's rights into the law of this land.

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