[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3025]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE BENEFITS OF CONTRACEPTION

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, at a speak-out on women's right to birth 
control, I solicited comments from the huge audience that attended, and 
here are a few.
  Reverend Luke Pepper writes:

       As a Christian and as a minister, I believe that it is 
     important and necessary that we promote the quality of health 
     care and livelihood of the families in this country. 
     Providing access and availability of quality contraception to 
     women is the right and moral thing to do.

  A young anonymous woman wrote:

       I'm a virgin. I take birth control because I have 
     polycystic ovary syndrome, and it will reduce my risk of 
     uterine cancer.

  Diane writes:

       My oldest son is on the autism spectrum. Nearly 6 years 
     after he was born, my husband and I judged our family ready 
     to support and nurture a second child. If, through the lack 
     of access to birth control, we had been forced to risk an 
     unplanned pregnancy before we were ready, we would not have 
     had the resources--financial or emotional--to give our older 
     son the care and support he needed that enabled him to become 
     the fine young man he is. Nor would we have been able to 
     devote full care and attention to his beloved young brother.

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