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Disapproval of District of Columbia Reproductive Health Non-discrimination Amendment Act of 2014

Floor Speech

Date: April 30, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Abortion

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Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico. Madam Speaker, we have an obligation to fight discrimination wherever it exists and in whatever form it exists.

This resolution would allow employers to discriminate against employees who make decisions based on the interests of their health and their families. If employers don't like the personal health care decisions that their employees make, this resolution would allow employers to fire them.

Is it right to allow employers to fire women who use contraception or who try to conceive through in vitro fertilization?

Employees should be judged on their job performances and nothing else, especially not on their private medical decisions. Nobody has the right to interfere with those decisions--nobody--not an employer, not the House of Representatives, not any of us.

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