[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2106]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     ASSAULT ON WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE

  (Ms. FRANKEL of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FRANKEL of Florida. Madam Speaker, I found her. Forty years ago I 
found my friend, Flora, bleeding, near death. She was a victim of an 
illegal abortion, forced to turn to a back-alley practitioner. She 
survived, but many like her did not.
  Today, my Republican colleagues are, once again, trying to take us 
back to those days with a new, radical bill to deny our mothers, our 
daughters, our sisters the right to obtain a safe and legal abortion.
  I have a better idea. Madam Speaker, let's pass the Women's Health 
Protection Act that will allow all women, no matter where they live in 
this country, access to the tools and information that they need to 
make their own private health care decisions.
  Madam Speaker, we cannot--we will not--go back.

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