[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]




                 CRIMINALIZING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE

  Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ. Mr. Speaker, recently Speaker Johnson and most 
House Republicans cosponsored a bill that could ban IVF nationwide and 
criminalize reproductive healthcare. The Alabama Supreme Court's anti-
IVF ruling is consistent with these extreme attempts to steal women's 
freedom to decide when, how, and if to have a family.
  Trump and the MAGA extremists want a Federal abortion ban. Packing 
the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade wasn't enough for them. Every 
State law and constitutional amendment protecting women's reproductive 
freedoms from New Mexico to Kansas to Ohio could be overturned if 
Donald Trump and Republicans win in 2024.
  Criminalizing pregnancies, outlawing IVF and birth control, and 
forcing pregnancies on children who have been raped--that is the 
nightmare we face unless women and those that love them act now to 
defeat this extremism. Women need healthcare, not handcuffs.

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