On the recordMay 12, 2022
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I join my colleagues in thanking her for her leadership. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to speak against the cruel and unconstitutional leaked Supreme Court decision overturning settled law of the land, Roe v. Wade. To be clear, controlling decisions about our bodies is a basic human right. The government has no right to regulate what we can do with our bodies. Overturning Roe v. Wade is about control. It is about religious supremacy. It is about harming women. It would fly in the face of decades of precedent and the overwhelming majority of public opinion if this decision is to hold. We know this decision will fall hardest on the most vulnerable in this country: women who have been abused, women who are the victims of incest, and those who have been raped. But its consequences will be even more far-reaching than we can imagine. This will be a blow to everyone who believes in the 14th Amendment, to anyone who believes there is a limit to how much the government can control the decisions we make in our private lives. We will be leaving our children and the next generation in a world with less freedom than we have enjoyed ourselves. It is shocking to me that all of this is being championed by and is coming from a party that believes in small government, a party that talks about freedom, liberty.…
