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Pelosi Statement on Republicans’ 20-Week Abortion Ban

May 13, 2015

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after House Republicans voted to restrict women's access to the full range of health care services, by banning abortions after 20-weeks, with no exception for the health of the woman:

"The failed leadership of the Republican Congress has the jobs of hundreds of thousands of American workers being threatened by upcoming deadlines, with expiration of the Highway Trust Fund and the expiration of the Export-Import Bank days away. We have an urgent need for legislation to create jobs, raise wages and grow our economy for hard-working American families.

"Yet instead of creating jobs or strengthening hard-working families, Republicans have advanced another radical and unconstitutional effort to dismantle women's right to comprehensive health care. This vote is just the latest measure in an unprecedented series of Republican assaults on women's health care this Congress, from restricting how women can spend private money in purchasing coverage to enabling D.C. employers to fire women for buying birth control.

"Republicans should stop wasting time with radical assaults on women's health, and start spending that energy finding solutions to the manufactured crises they have forced on the American people."

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Issues:Health Care