[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2419]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1900
                      VOICE FOR THE ESSURE SISTERS

  (Mr. FITZPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to tell the story of Kendra 
Kilroy of Quincy, Massachusetts, one of tens of thousands of women 
harmed by the permanent sterilization device Essure.
  Because of Essure, she has lived in debilitating pain. She has lived 
in anxiety, thinking maybe her doctor was right and her symptoms were 
really just in her head. She lived in sadness, missing out on field 
trips, school plays, and a Christmas concert for her children because 
she was too sick and too tired. Mostly, she lived in anger, finding out 
that the Essure coil was migrating through her fallopian tube and into 
her body. She now lives in hope, knowing we have people fighting with 
and for us to protect so many women from the same fate.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise as a voice for the Essure sisters, to tell this 
Chamber that their stories are real, their pain is real, and their 
fight is real.
  My bill, the E-Free Act, can halt this tragedy by removing this 
dangerous device from the market. Too many women have been harmed.
  I urge my colleagues to join this fight because stories like Kendra's 
are too important to ignore.

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