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Rep. Jan Schakowsky Statement Against the Continued Republican War on Women


WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—January 22, 2015.  “House Republicans planned to vote on the ‘Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,’ this week, which proposed a 20-week abortion ban. However, Republican women and their supporters strongly opposed it, so it was not called for a vote. I believe that was a great moment, but sadly we were not able to build on it.

The House Republican leadership just turned to another bill to attack women’s rights and women’s health. They have put forth H.R. 7, the so-called ‘No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act’. This bill would deny women access to their constitutionally-protected right to safe and legal abortion by restricting coverage for abortions – including in private plans purchased with women’s own money.

This is a new Congress, but the old Republican War on Women continues. Americans believe women and their doctors should make medical decisions, not politicians. I am extremely disappointed that many House Republicans think they should have the final say on women’s health issues.

In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded women have the constitutionally-protected right to safe and legal abortion. That landmark decision wasn’t the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.”

Source: Schakowsky.house.gov


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