Protect Life Act

Floor Speech

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Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, this bill threatens the health and basic rights of American women.

The majority is once again trying to embed their extreme and divisive ideological preferences into law. They are trying to impose their backward view of a woman's role on everyone else, forcing women back into traditional roles with limited opportunities.

They need to trust and respect American women. The bill goes beyond prior legislation. It bans working women access to a legal medical procedure. It denies all but the wealthiest women their choice in health services. It puts the government between a woman and her doctor. It allows hospitals to deny life-saving care to women. We should be standing up today for the middle class by working to create jobs, not trying to prevent women access to lifesaving health services.

This bill is an affront to women's health. I urge all of my colleagues to oppose it.

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