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Hyde Amendment

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 27, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Women Health and Health Care Reproduction

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Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of every woman in our country and her right to make her own healthcare decisions in consultation with her doctors.

Women should be free to make those most personal of decisions without the interference of politicians and, specifically, without the interference of the Hyde amendment.

The Hyde amendment is an insidious and antiwomen's healthcare provision that, in its 40 years of existence, has pushed safe and legal abortions out of the reach of women at the lowest ends of our socioeconomic ladder.

It overwhelmingly affects women of color, immigrants, and young women.

Instead of lifting up our middle class and working families, Republican politicians have built roadblocks at every corner through the Hyde amendment and countless other restrictions on women's health care. It is long past time for us to remove it from Federal law, and I am proud to be a cosponsor of the EACH Woman Act, which would do just that.

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