Women's Reproductive Rights Must Be Respected

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Ms. FUDGE. Mr. Speaker, this must be Groundhog Day because this House
continues to revisit over and over again a woman's right to make
decisions about her own health.

Roe v. Wade has long established a woman's constitutional right to
have an abortion prior to a fetus' viability, yet Republicans continue
to introduce legislation like H.R. 36 to ban abortions beginning at 20
weeks, with very limited exceptions.

In Congress and in several States, politicians are interfering in
complicated private medical decisions that should be left to a woman,
her family, and her doctor. That is why I am proud to cointroduce the
Women's Health Protection Act, a bill making it unlawful for States to
pass restrictive legislation that will endanger women's health and
safety. Women's reproductive rights must be respected.

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