[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13698]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             HYDE AMENDMENT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of every 
woman in our country and her right to make her own healthcare decisions 
in consultation with her doctors.
  Women should be free to make those most personal of decisions without 
the interference of politicians and, specifically, without the 
interference of the Hyde amendment.
  The Hyde amendment is an insidious and antiwomen's healthcare 
provision that, in its 40 years of existence, has pushed safe and legal 
abortions out of the reach of women at the lowest ends of our 
socioeconomic ladder. It overwhelmingly affects women of color, 
immigrants, and young women.
  Instead of lifting up our middle class and working families, 
Republican politicians have built roadblocks at every corner through 
the Hyde amendment and countless other restrictions on women's health 
care. It is long past time for us to remove it from Federal law, and I 
am proud to be a cosponsor of the EACH Woman Act, which would do just 
that.

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