Renee L. Ellmers: “Thank you so much, my esteemed colleague from Ohio. Your comments are so pertinent to today's fight. We are women. We…”

“Thank you so much, my esteemed colleague from Ohio. Your comments are so pertinent to today's fight. We are women. We are conservative women. As for those who have come before us, as you pointed out so eloquently, we don't know what they believed, but we are starting to unveil all of that. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of women, to honor the rich contributions women have made in the history of this world. I want to take a moment to discuss the strong pro-life movement that my colleagues and I are continuing to fight today. I rise in support of and fight on behalf of women. In this month dedicated to women, I ask them to choose life for themselves and for their children. The original feminists were, indeed, against abortion. These women believed that there was power in motherhood and in choosing life. Alice Paul, the author of the original Equal Rights Amendment, said it best: Abortion is the exploitation of women. It is this exploitation by groups like Planned Parenthood that frighten me for the women of our country. It has been proven that a woman who has had an abortion is six to seven times more likely to commit suicide in the following year than a woman who chooses to deliver her child. We all know of the syndrome postpartum depression. Women who abort are 65 percent more likely than women who deliver to be at risk for long-term clinical depression. Sixty-five percent of U.S.…”