[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2558]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          TEXAS HAS NO CHOICE

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, this morning I 
joined hundreds of women on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest 
the Texas law that is under consideration by the Court today.
  The Texas law has already shut down over half of the abortion clinics 
in the State of Texas, and if the law is upheld today, it will 
effectively end the constitutional right of women in Texas to obtain a 
legal abortion.
  If that happens, the extreme Texas law will likely be used as a 
blueprint by anti-choice extremists across this country.
  Now, they claim that this law's restrictive provisions are necessary 
to protect a woman's health. But doctors across this Nation will tell 
you that that is a lie. The harsh restrictions were designed with the 
single purpose of closing and blocking access to choice.
  I proudly joined over 162 of my colleagues on an amicus brief urging 
the Court to strike down this law. The right to choose is meaningless 
without the access to choice.

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