Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership and for always fighting for those too often ignored, left out, and left behind. We are grateful for her. Now, just as I close, as we wrap this Special Order hour, Transgender Day of…

To be clear, the Hyde Amendment functioned as the original abortion ban for low-income individuals.

Thank you, Acting Chair Maloney, for holding the line on this full committee hearing since the transition of Chairman Cummings.

I just wanted to acknowledge, since there was this conversation about compassion for the innocence- earlier today I rolled out the People's Justice Guarantee, which calls for the abolishing of the death penalty.

That right is a fundamental right. It is a right that is tied to your ability to have dignity in this country.

Current law restricts Medicaid funds from covering abortion care for women in communities across the United States.

This is a decision between a woman and her God and her doctor and her life, and only she knows how to make this decision.

I refuse to stand by and see even one more woman's life put in danger because of lack of access to safe and legal abortion.

We cannot afford to endure another abortion ban because we are already battling discrimination in healthcare, wages too low to put food on the table, debilitating childcare costs, attacks on immigrants, and threats to our voting rights.

Banning access to safe, legal abortion is not what the majority of this country wants.

I believe that your voice is the most important of all the important voices that we have heard today.