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                    ASSAULT ON REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM

  (Ms. GILLEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GILLEN. Mr. Speaker, in the 2 years since the Dobbs decision, we 
have seen nothing short of an all-out assault on our reproductive 
rights and our reproductive freedoms, including a steady march to pass 
a national abortion ban coupled with efforts to roll back access to 
contraception and IVF.
  It is truly shocking that in 2025, we have to defend Americans' 
access to birth control and ability to decide when they start a family, 
but the attacks on reproductive freedom keep coming. Four out of five 
people in this country oppose these attempts to restrict our autonomy 
and our freedom, and we must fight back. That means making sure that 
the right to access to contraception is codified into law.
  I am proud to cosponsor H.R. 999, the Right to Contraception Act. I 
will continue to fight to defend women's and families' freedom to make 
their own personal healthcare decisions. This should not be partisan. 
Preserving our freedom is American.

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