opening statement. we are holding today s hearing at a moment when women across america are feeling sorrow, anger and disbelief. ago, a right-wing majority on the supreme court fulfilled the republican party s decades long goal of overturning roe v wade and stripped away a constitutional right relied on by generations of american women. the goal of these right-wing extremists is clear, to control the bodies of women, girls and any person who can become pregnant. to be even more clear, the decision means the government can now order people to stay pregnant on pain of criminal punishment. many of us have been warning about this for years as the states have chipped away at the right to abortion. my first hearing as the chair of the committee, we examine how draconian restrictions in states like missouri were closing on abortion providers. last year we held a hearing on the six week abortion ban in texas which turned private citizens into bounty hunters, encouraging them to sue a