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Access to Abortion Care

Floor Speech

Date: July 21, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. PRESSLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to condemn the cruelty of the Hyde Amendment and reintroduce the EACH Act to end it once and for all.

It is 2025. In 1976, when I was a mere 2 years old, a Congressman from Chicago was livid at the thought that a woman could be in control of her own body, especially a Black or Brown woman. So he came to this floor and put forward an amendment with a simple, cruel aim to ban as many people as he could from getting abortion care.

With that robotic precision, this institution has rubber-stamped this amendment in budget after budget.

The Hyde Amendment denies abortion care to patients who receive their care through Medicaid, CHIP, and other government programs.

Once in my lifetime, we defeated this amendment in the House, a testament to activists, organizers, and my mentor, Congresswoman Barbara Lee.

Mr. Speaker, in my lifetime, we will defeat it once and for all because everyone deserves access to fundamental healthcare, and that is exactly what abortion care is.

No man, no king, and no coward should come between us and our bodies.

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