Codify Reproductive Rights

Reproductive freedom is under attack across our country. In over 20 states, Republicans have passed extreme abortion bans, threatened access to birth control, and even jailed doctors. They won't stop there. Although we are lucky to live in a state that protects reproductive freedom, Trump’s Project 2025 made clear that the goal is a national abortion ban. We need leaders who are capable of fighting back against MAGA’s extreme anti-choice agenda.

Democrats in Congress had nearly 50 years to codify Roe v. Wade into law to protect reproductive freedom, but they never did. For too long, Democratic leadership relied solely on the Supreme Court to protect our fundamental civil rights. When Republicans captured the courts, they had no line of defense. The Democratic establishment’s failure to secure our fundamental rights left us all vulnerable to attack.

I will not make that mistake. I won't stand by while Republicans undermine basic human rights. It is every person's right to make decisions about their body and to choose if and when to have children. Those decisions certainly shouldn't be made by Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, or any other politician. In Congress, I promise to be a fierce defender of reproductive rights by:

• Codifying the rights given to women in Roe vs. Wade into law by passing the Women's Health Protection Act.
• Codifying the right to contraception introduced in Griswold Vs. Connecticut by passing the Right to Contraception Act.
• Allowing publicly funded insurance, such as Medicaid or Medicare, to pay for abortions by repealing the Hyde Amendment.
• Expanding Title X funding to ensure that low-income Americans have access to contraceptives and reproductive healthcare services.
• Repealing the Comstock Act, an obscure law from the 1870s that many Republicans want to use to institute a national abortion ban.