No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015

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Mr. CONNOLLY. Madam Speaker, goundhog Day isn't for a couple more
weeks, but you wouldn't know that from looking at the Republican
majority's agenda these past few weeks. They've brought up one partisan
bill after another that already proved unsuccessful in previous years.

Today, we are revisiting the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,
which is misleading and redundant to say the least and represents yet
another attempt by Republicans to restrict a woman's reproductive
rights and access to lifesaving health services. In fact, it's their
second attempt this week after they had to pull a controversial and
unconstitutional 20-week (abortion) ban due to lack of support on their
side of the aisle.

The contradiction between this narrow, ideological agenda and the
message Republicans attempted to convey in their response to the
President's State of the Union address this week--in which they claimed
they would be ``working to change the direction in Washington'' and
passing ``serious job-creation ideas''--is stark.

Aside from denying care to women in the most desperate of
circumstances, this bill would go beyond the current Hyde Amendment to
place restrictions on how women with private insurance can spend
private dollars in purchasing health insurance. It is a prima facie
infringement of women's constitutional rights.

Madam Speaker, as polarizing as these debates continue to be, I
believe we should make decisions based on this country's founding
principles of personal liberty that should always guide this body on
the subject of women's reproductive health.

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