Women's Health Protection Act of 2022

Floor Speech

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Ms. ADAMS. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his extraordinary support.

Madam Speaker, I rise today because I am pretty damn angry. You know the Supreme Court's decision overturning the right to abortion care is fundamentally wrong. The Supreme Court green-lit forced pregnancy, taking away the right to bodily autonomy for women.

Abortion is still healthcare. People will still need to access it, and that is why I am supporting the Women's Health Protection Act.

In the wake of the Dobbs decision, we have a State-by-State patchwork that denies women equal protection under the law.

While abortion is still legal in my home State of North Carolina, the State of Texas is suing the government to compel women to carry pregnancies to term, even if it kills the mother.

The attorney general of Indiana wants to force rape victims--even 10- year-old girls--to carry pregnancies to term.

We have a responsibility to stop this draconian overreach by State governments, and we have got to make reproductive freedom--reproductive freedom--the law of the land.

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