[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 124 (Monday, July 21, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H3521-H3522]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        ACCESS TO ABORTION CARE

  (Ms. PRESSLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)

[[Page H3522]]

  

  Ms. PRESSLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to condemn the cruelty of the Hyde 
Amendment and reintroduce the EACH Act to end it once and for all.
  It is 2025. In 1976, when I was a mere 2 years old, a Congressman 
from Chicago was livid at the thought that a woman could be in control 
of her own body, especially a Black or Brown woman. So he came to this 
floor and put forward an amendment with a simple, cruel aim to ban as 
many people as he could from getting abortion care.
  With that robotic precision, this institution has rubber-stamped this 
amendment in budget after budget.
  The Hyde Amendment denies abortion care to patients who receive their 
care through Medicaid, CHIP, and other government programs.
  Once in my lifetime, we defeated this amendment in the House, a 
testament to activists, organizers, and my mentor, Congresswoman 
Barbara Lee.
  Mr. Speaker, in my lifetime, we will defeat it once and for all 
because everyone deserves access to fundamental healthcare, and that is 
exactly what abortion care is.
  No man, no king, and no coward should come between us and our bodies.

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