[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 110 (Friday, June 23, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 NATIONWIDE BAN ON ABORTION IS THE GOAL

  (Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, the Supreme Court's 
decision in Dobbs will have been the cruel law of the land for 1 year.
  In that short time, 14 States enacted near-total abortion bans, and 
others are trying to do the same.
  Wasn't that the goal?
  This is not about being pro-life or being for States' rights. The 
goal is a nationwide ban on abortion. The goal is control over women 
and girls. The goal is cruelty.
  Healthcare providers, the medical experts actually in the rooms with 
patients who know them by name, have said many times, and it bears 
repeating, abortion care is healthcare.
  Yet, one in three women and over one-fifth of the American public is 
now living without abortion access.
  Mr. Speaker, 68 percent of OB/GYNs say the management of pregnancy-
related medical emergencies is now worse, and 70 percent say Dobbs has 
widened the racial maternal healthcare gap.
  Dobbs puts the physical and mental well-being of millions at risk.
  Judges and legislators are grossly unqualified to make personal 
medical decisions for millions of women.
  I have three daughters-in-law and three granddaughters. I will not 
rest until their full rights, until the rights of all women and girls 
in this country, are restored.

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