Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act

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Ms. MORRISON. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 6945.

The Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act is yet another Republican betrayal cruelly masked by a misleading title.

After spending the last few weeks threatening access to childcare support and doing literally nothing to help millions of Americans afford their healthcare, Republicans want to direct taxpayer dollars away from helping families afford necessities like food, rent, and childcare to crisis pregnancy centers that prey on vulnerable women seeking legitimate reproductive healthcare.

We have heard today that wonderful, caring people staff these crisis pregnancy centers, and I don't doubt that, but crisis pregnancy centers do not provide medical care, though they imply that they do. Crisis pregnancy centers are unregulated, deceptive, and dangerous.

As an OB/GYN myself for more than 20 years, I have seen far too many patients who have had, at best, confusing and, at worst, life- threatening experiences at crisis pregnancy centers. They don't serve patients. They serve the anti-abortion agenda.

Let me be clear: Every person has the right and deserves the dignity to make their own healthcare decisions, free from intimidation, deception, and coercion. At a time when our country has a shameful maternal and infant mortality crisis and is facing a worsening shortage of obstetricians, the so-called pro-life movement is focused not on helping women or supporting their families or delivering the IVF coverage the President promised; they are focused on denying women their reproductive rights and failing to deliver for American families.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stand for women and families, for dignity and for freedom, and vote ``no.''

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