[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 14 (Thursday, January 23, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H311]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         SUPPORTING HEALTHCARE AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS OF WOMEN

  (Ms. ROSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday we marked 52 years since the Supreme 
Court issued its landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade. We should be 
celebrating 52 years of reproductive freedom. Instead, nearly 3 years 
after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, we live in a very 
different America.
  In North Carolina and across the country, women cannot access vital 
healthcare services, and doctors are being criminalized for simply 
doing their jobs.
  We now have a President back in the White House who is bent on 
restricting access to women's healthcare even further. On President 
Trump's first day in office, his administration even removed a Federal 
web page that offered important reproductive health information.
  While the next 4 years will bring immense challenges, we cannot give 
up the fight for a country where women can make decisions about our own 
bodies and our own healthcare.

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