Abortion Care is Healthcare

Floor Speech

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Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, last month marked 51 years since Roe v. Wade was decided, holding a women's fundamental right to privacy in their medical decisions. Women had the right to abortion because abortion care is healthcare.

Legal abortions have saved countless women's lives. Yet, after rightwing extremists spent 50 years pushing misinformation on abortion, our Supreme Court did their bidding and stripped away the rights and freedoms of women nationwide.

The far-right Court claimed the Dobbs decision would simply send the choice back to the States. Instead, it sent our Nation into chaos-- doctors unsure if they can help their patients, assault survivors unsure if they can go to the police, and women crossing State lines to save their own lives.

Like many of you, I am exhausted by politicians who claim to support women, support life, and then work to strip away access to contraception, fertility care, and gynecological health.

I am exhausted by the fact that my daughters-in-law and granddaughters have fewer rights than I did. I am exhausted that Roe is gone.

Yet, we must not tire. No matter how long the fight, whether in this Congress or the next, we must restore a woman's right to legal abortion.

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