Senate Budget Committee Chairman Whitehouse Issues Opening Statement at Hearing on Economic Harms of Restricting Reproductive Freedom
March 13, 2024
March 13, 2024
WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on Feb. 28, 2024, entitled "No Rights to Speak of: The Economic Harms of Restricting Reproductive Freedom":
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I call this hearing to order. Today we will discuss women's rights -- their right to bodily autonomy, their right to set the course of their own life, and their right to economic freedom.
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I call this hearing to order. Today we will discuss women's rights -- their right to bodily autonomy, their right to set the course of their own life, and their right to economic freedom.