Providing for Consideration of H.R. Pregnant Students' Rights Act; Providing for Consideration of H.R. Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act; and Providing for Consideration of H. Res. Denouncing the Biden Administration's Open-Borders Policies, Condemning the National Security and Public Safety Crisis Along the Southwest Border, and Urging President Biden to End His Administration's Open-Borders Policies

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Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I have a serious question for my Republican colleagues: Did the Trump campaign write these bills for you? They seem right out of his political playbook--cruel, uninformed, nasty bills. You are turning the House of Representatives into the committee to re-elect Donald Trump.

Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman from Minnesota can claim whatever she wants about these bills, but I wish the other side would just be clear. I wish they would just come clean with the American people. What they want is to ban abortion, a total ban. That is what these bills are about.

Don't believe their spin. This debate isn't about giving students more information or helping provide resources to families or whatever other misleading junk you hear from the other side. That is all a bunch of baloney, a bunch of BS.

Read their bills. Read the bills, and you will see what they do.

The Pregnant Students' Rights Act doesn't give anybody any new rights. It contains a bunch of completely made-up claims meant to stigmatize abortion. It lets schools not inform students of their actual rights with regard to contraception or abortion care. That is the truth.

Republicans can name the bill whatever they want. The problem is, when you read the bill, people actually see that the title is misleading.

I read the bill. The title is misleading. Their other bill is about crisis pregnancy centers, and I know a little bit about crisis pregnancy centers. I have one in my district that almost killed somebody because they told her that everything was fine when she had an ectopic pregnancy, and she almost died.

These centers are about pushing a political agenda, about deceiving women--some who are actually trying to seek access to abortion care.

Republicans say that Federal funding can't go to Planned Parenthood for political reasons, then why the hell is it going to these dangerous political pregnancy centers that push their own agenda? I mean, give me a break.

Now, look, just to be honest about it, the Republican position is to ban abortion nationwide. We know overturning Roe was just the start. Now they want to criminalize abortion, too, and throw women in jail for making decisions about their own bodies. Texas, Kentucky, South Carolina, they are all trying to lock women up if they get an abortion.

Every single week, Republicans are here on the House floor pushing for more extremist culture war nonsense like this.

Maybe that is why they keep losing elections because every time they put their anti-abortion agenda on the ballot, they lose. You would think that they would take the hint. Maybe that is why there are so few speakers on the other side talking about these bills today.

The sickest part of it all, the most disgusting thing is, they do not have one shred of compassion or care about the baby after it is born. They talk about the sanctity of life this and the sanctity of life that, and then they underfund and cut WIC and take food away from postpartum moms and babies. They cut programs that support maternal health. They block the expanded child tax credit, which kept millions of young children and babies out of poverty, and they don't even want to talk about the Black maternal health crisis in this country.

Forgive us if we think it is a little hypocritical to come down here and get lectured about life from a Republican Party that apparently thinks life begins at conception but ends at birth.

These are awful, awful, awful bills. We are here because the Republican Party is incompetent. They have no vision, no agenda, no way of making life better for people. They are the party of abortion bans, insurrections, and illegitimate investigations, and they will pay for it at the ballot box.

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