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Download official House Record PDFReturn to issue contextMs. McCLELLAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, I was 1 month old when the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade recognized the constitutional right to abortion. For most of my life, I had the peace of mind that the decision of when, whether, and how to become a parent would be mine.
placenta ruptured 9 weeks before my due date. I was wheeled into the emergency room, and I had the peace of mind that my doctor could do what she felt in that moment was best, without fear of prosecution.
v. Wade and made me the first generation of my family to lose a constitutional right in my lifetime. Now, my daughter, with fewer rights than me, faces threats to her reproductive freedom.
with abortion bans or extreme restrictions. At a time when the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any other industrialized nation, women are dying because they can't access the reproductive care they need when they need it, like Nevaeh Crain, who was denied care while suffering a miscarriage until she was septic and died.
congressional Reproductive Freedom Caucus, I am fighting so that everyone has the reproductive freedom they deserve.