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On the recordJuly 19, 2022
I thank the gentleman for yielding. We have just been treated to a master class of misinformation. The Speaker also just said, ``Can you believe they are going after contraception?'' Give me a break. She knows that is not true. There is not a single Republican even talking about that or any of these other categories of the law. This is designed to divide the country. This bill is a shameful effort at that. Mr. Nadler, when we were talking about our concerns about the care pregnancy centers being under assault, to make his case that pro-lifers are violent, he referenced the terrible murder of Mr. Slepian, an abortion provider, in 1998. That was a quarter century ago. We are talking about the last 11 weeks. We have had 50 care pregnancy centers vandalized, attacked with Molotov cocktails, spray-painted, threats being made to Supreme Court Justices. There is no equivocation here at all. Mr. Cohen implied that the conservative Justices misled the Senate in their confirmation hearings. We have got the receipts on that. It is demonstrably untrue. Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion in Dobbs, said during his 2006 confirmation that Roe was `` . . . an important precedent of the Supreme Court.'' ``It was decided in 1973, so it has been on the books for a long time.'' But he declined to call the ruling ``settled law.'' Justice Thomas, in 1991 in his hearings, he declined to comment on his views on Roe at all.…
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana
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Jul 19, 2022

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