Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

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Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 21 would rob families of the ability to make difficult, complicated medical decisions in some of the most heartbreaking circumstances imaginable. It is a mean-spirited solution in search of a problem.

Infanticide is already illegal in every State of the Union, and Congress unanimously affirmed this with a law in 2002, but this bill is not about saving lives. It is about spreading misinformation about abortion care to further anti-abortion talking points.

If the majority is interested in caring for newborns, I invite them to support Democrats' efforts to provide paid family leave to every new parent.

Republicans are welcome to join our efforts to expand the child tax credit to families struggling with paying the bills, and we would be thrilled to have bipartisan support in this Chamber to make childcare affordable everywhere.

Instead, House Republicans have brought up a bill designed to intimidate doctors and perpetuate disinformation about how abortion care really works.

For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to committee. If the House rules permitted, I would have offered my bill, the Women's Health Protection Act, legislation that would create a Federal right to abortion care, free from medically unnecessary restrictions in all 50 States, in all ZIP Codes.

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Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for this motion to recommit.

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Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.

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Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

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