[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5277]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      DEVASTATING ANTI-CHOICE BILL

  (Mr. QUIGLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Madam Speaker, I rise today because in a few short days 
this body will consider an extreme and devastating anti-choice bill. 
H.R. 3 attempted to redefine rape, aims to ban private insurance 
coverage of reproductive health care, and imposes tax penalties on 
plans that include care.
  These unprecedented provisions have been widely debated, and it is my 
hope that the American people will realize the severity of this bill 
and that their Representatives will stop it. But my fear is throughout 
this debate, a dangerous provision of H.R. 3 has been overlooked, 
making permanent the Medicaid abortion ban, or the Hyde amendment. It 
is dangerous because if the extreme provisions are stripped out as a 
``compromise,'' we are left with a ban that permanently bars poor women 
from accessing care, and we have still lost.
  Let's call the abortion ban what it really is: a ban on 
constitutionally protected health care that poor women cannot afford on 
their own. I encourage my colleagues to stand with poor women 
struggling to make ends meet around the Nation, in staunch opposition 
to any Medicaid abortion ban and H.R. 3.

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