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Women's Health Protection Act of 2021

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 24, 2021
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Women's Health Protection Act that will end the horrifying State-level attacks on abortion access. The Texas law would encourage vigilantism and criminalizes anyone who would even help someone to get an abortion. But Texas is not alone.

Abortion is healthcare. This is a pro-choice country, a pro-choice nation. Women can make the decision to have a child or not have a child. It is about bodily autonomy.

I want to be very clear; Roe v. Wade was not the beginning of women having abortions. It was the end of women dying from abortions.

Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this legislation and to say ``no'' to harming women.

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