[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 837]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS MUST BE RESPECTED

  (Ms. FUDGE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FUDGE. Mr. Speaker, this must be Groundhog Day because this House 
continues to revisit over and over again a woman's right to make 
decisions about her own health.
  Roe v. Wade has long established a woman's constitutional right to 
have an abortion prior to a fetus' viability, yet Republicans continue 
to introduce legislation like H.R. 36 to ban abortions beginning at 20 
weeks, with very limited exceptions.
  In Congress and in several States, politicians are interfering in 
complicated private medical decisions that should be left to a woman, 
her family, and her doctor. That is why I am proud to cointroduce the 
Women's Health Protection Act, a bill making it unlawful for States to 
pass restrictive legislation that will endanger women's health and 
safety. Women's reproductive rights must be respected.

                          ____________________