[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 30, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2755]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                SAFEGUARDING THE RIGHT TO CONTRACEPTION

  (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, extreme Republican politicians continue to 
attack women's reproductive freedoms. First, they overturned Roe, 
demolishing abortion rights for millions of Americans across the 
country, including in my home State of North Carolina.
  Now, they are attacking fertility treatments, like IVF, and they are 
even coming after birth control. In fact, Supreme Court Justice 
Clarence Thomas explicitly called for the reconsideration of Griswold 
v. Connecticut, the case that first established the right to 
contraception. Just last year, 195 Republicans in the U.S. House of 
Representatives voted against the right to use birth control.
  I will not stand by and watch extremist politicians strip away 
women's rights. That is why I reintroduced the Right to Contraception 
Act, to safeguard the right to access all FDA-approved birth control 
from political attacks.
  I encourage my colleagues to join me in supporting my Right to 
Contraception Act and stand up for women's health and freedom.

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