No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015

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Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I, too, am against this bill for I am for a
woman's right to choice. This bill is the second bill that has been
brought in the last few days to show the Republican side's intent to
repeal Roe v. Wade. That is what they would like to do: repeal Roe v.
Wade.

What is most important is to understand the theater that this bill
has shown that the majority party has made this historic hallowed hall
of Congress today.

Today is the March for Life, lots of pro-lifers here. They wanted to
give them something, so they scheduled a bill--we could be legislating
on jobs, on minimum wage, on infrastructure. They wanted to give them
something, so they came with a bill called ``fetal pain'' to get around
the viability requirements of the Supreme Court.

Their caucus found that bill too extreme to get the votes--even their
caucus. Now, the leadership wouldn't listen to the Democrats of the
Rules Committee, and it wouldn't listen to the Democrats on the floor,
and they didn't have the good sense to realize it would make them look
as they are: antiwoman and out-of-step with reality.

It took some women and maybe a few men--but mostly women--in their
caucus to finally go ``no,'' so they brought up a retread of a bill.
That was a retread too, but they brought up another one, a substitute
bill, because they had to have something to give as a gift for the
March for Life pro-life caucus.

This is theater. This is drama. That is what this has become. A
woman's right should not be theater; it shouldn't be drama. A woman's
right should be preserved. If any case, if there is any question about
them, it should go through regular process, go through committees.

Let the Members know about the bill with notice, not have, within 72
hours, a bill brought to this floor. Regular order has been destroyed
because of theater and messaging, and that is what you are going to see
for the next 2 years.

The American people will be very disappointed in this Congress
because it has become the theater of the absurd.

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