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TEXAS WOMEN ARE UNITED STATES CITIZENS
(Mr. RASKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, the women of Texas are citizens of the United States, but they are being treated like outlaws by their own legislature.
Under the Texas law, any person, including murderers, serial rapists, sexual harassers, January 6 insurrectionists, or Texas State legislators themselves, can sue doctors, nurses, mothers, fathers, medical personnel, simply for helping a woman in Texas exercise her constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey for $10,000.
You want to give $10,000 to a total stranger for helping your daughter through a personal crisis caused by a rape? Move to Texas.
You want to join the GOP in turning America into a nation of theocratic busybodies and vigilante bounty hunters policing other people's families? Go right ahead.
But for me, I am standing with the Constitution of the United States. I am voting for the Women's Health Protection Act, and I am proud that we are passing it today.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 166
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