[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8020-8021]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        WAR ON WOMEN LEGISLATION

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, this week, Republicans are bringing to 
the floor a bill that purports to stop abortions based on sex 
selection, but it is so broadly written and so clearly unconstitutional 
that it is obvious that they are really after rolling back the clock 
and undermining comprehensive health care for women.
  The bill includes a provision that would allow a woman's husband or 
parents--by merely alleging that an abortion is because of gender--to 
seek injunctive relief to prevent the doctor from performing abortion 
procedures, sending an incredibly private and personal decision into 
the courts and potentially forcing women against their will or health 
to go through with a pregnancy.
  Republicans oppose protections for immigrant women under the Violence 
Against Women Act, they oppose pay equity and access to contraceptives, 
but with this bill they claim to be defenders of women?
  Today marks the third anniversary of the death--and the murder--of 
Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, who performed legal abortions. 
His motto was ``Trust women.'' He believed that women--not the 
government--should make the decisions about their health and their 
lives. I'm not fooled, and American women aren't fooled. This bill is 
just the latest strike by Republicans in the war on women.

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