[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H735]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     ATTACKS ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

  (Ms. MANNING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. MANNING. Mr. Speaker, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. 
Wade, we knew extreme MAGA Republicans wouldn't stop with attacking 
abortion rights. We knew they would come for birth control.
  I introduced the Right to Contraception Act to codify the right to 
use all forms of FDA-approved birth control.
  We also knew they would come for IVF. Last week, the Alabama Supreme 
Court decided frozen embryos are children, forcing clinics in Alabama 
to stop IVF treatments.
  Republicans are now scrambling to claim they support contraception 
and IVF. Actions speak louder than words.
  Mr. Speaker, 195 House Republicans voted against my bill to protect 
the right to contraception, and over 120 Republicans cosponsored the 
Life at Conception Act, a bill that uses the same reasoning as the 
Alabama court, that includes no protection for IVF or birth control, 
and would decimate IVF and abortion access nationwide.
  Earlier today, Senate Republicans blocked a bill to protect the right 
to access IVF. They don't care about protecting reproductive rights, 
they care about controlling women's bodies.

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