[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 37 (Thursday, February 29, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H768]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM

  (Ms. McCLELLAN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to underscore the 
devastating impacts that we have seen from Republicans' extreme and 
unrelenting attacks on reproductive freedom.
  Since the Trump-packed Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, we have 
seen children as young as 10 years of age who have been raped who could 
not get abortion services. We have seen women who have suffered 
miscarriages and who have had to sit in the car until they were septic 
to get the treatment that they needed.
  Moreover, now we have seen the Alabama Supreme Court strip away the 
right to in vitro fertilization with its decision last week and three 
centers stopping IVF services.
  Republicans in the House and the Senate say that they support in 
vitro fertilization, but when given the opportunity to actually 
preserve it, they failed. Mr. Speaker, 125 House Republicans 
cosponsored legislation that would ban IVF, and the Senate has rejected 
legislation to make it legal.
  These decisions belong between patients and their providers.

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