[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 7, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H507-H508]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ABORTION CARE IS HEALTHCARE

  (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, last month marked 51 years 
since Roe v. Wade was decided, holding a women's fundamental right to 
privacy in their medical decisions. Women had the right to abortion 
because abortion care is healthcare.
  Legal abortions have saved countless women's lives. Yet, after 
rightwing extremists spent 50 years pushing misinformation on abortion, 
our Supreme Court did their bidding and stripped away the rights and 
freedoms of women nationwide.
  The far-right Court claimed the Dobbs decision would simply send the 
choice back to the States. Instead, it sent our Nation into chaos--
doctors unsure if they can help their patients, assault survivors 
unsure if they can go to the police, and women crossing State lines to 
save their own lives.
  Like many of you, I am exhausted by politicians who claim to support 
women, support life, and then work to strip away access to 
contraception, fertility care, and gynecological health.
  I am exhausted by the fact that my daughters-in-law and 
granddaughters

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have fewer rights than I did. I am exhausted that Roe is gone.
  Yet, we must not tire. No matter how long the fight, whether in this 
Congress or the next, we must restore a woman's right to legal 
abortion.

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