'No King, No Coward Should Come Between Us And Our Bodies': Ayanna Pressley Shreds Hyde Amendment

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During a speech on the House floor on Monday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) spoke about the Hyde Amendment which prevents federal dollars from going to abortion care and the EACH Act.

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00:00recognition without objection the gentlelady is recognized for one minute

00:07mr. speaker I rise to condemn the cruelty of the Hyde amendment and

00:11reintroduce the each act to end it once and for all it is 2025 in 1976 when I

00:18was a mere two years old a congressman from Chicago was living at the thought

00:23that a woman could be in control of her own body especially a black or brown

00:26woman so he came to this floor and put forward an amendment with a simple

00:30cruel aim to ban as many people as he could from getting abortion care and with

00:34that robotic precision this institution has rubber stamped this amendment in

00:38budget after budget the Hyde amendment denies abortion care to patients who

00:42receive their care through Medicaid chip and other government programs once in

00:46my lifetime we defeated this amendment in the house a testament to activist

00:50organizers and my mentor Congresswoman Barbara Lee and mr. speaker in my lifetime

00:54we will defeat it once and for all because everyone deserves access to

00:59fundamental health care and that's exactly what abortion care is no man no

01:04king no coward should come between us and our bodies I yield for what purpose is

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