Kuster Speaks on House Floor in Support of Reproductive Freedom as Supreme Court Considers Challenge to Roe v. Wade

Floor Speech

Watch Rep. Kuster speak on the House floor here or read her remarks below:

Thank you Madam Chair.

The Supreme Court is poised to make one of the most consequential rulings for women and their bodies in a generation.

For nearly 50 years, women have come to rely on the precedent of Roe v. Wade and the freedom to make their own reproductive decisions without government interference in their personal lives.

Now, those freedoms are under attack as the court considers a case asking for Roe v. Wade to be overturned.

As an adoption attorney for 25 years, I worked with more than 300 birth mothers making the most difficult and personal decisions of their lives.

They consulted family, loved ones, and doctors, but no one looked to the government to make that choice for them.

Earlier this year, I helped pass the Women's Health Protection Act -- legislation to codify the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion.

Regardless of the Court's decision, we must make this bill law to permanently protect the reproductive freedoms of women.

Thank you, I yield back.

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