Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reproductive Freedom Caucus Co-Chairs Diana DeGette (CO-01) & Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), RFC Task Force Chair Judy Chu (CA-28), alongside Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), Reproductive Freedom Caucus Vice Chair & Whip Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), author of the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act Rep. Sharice Davids (KS-03), and Democratic Women’s Caucus Chief Whip Nikema Williams (GA-05) sent a letter signed by 155 other House Members urging Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Congressional Reproductive Freedom Caucus (RFC) Co-Chairs Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-01) and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s funding freeze affecting tens of millions of dollars in Title X Family Planning Program funding, including Planned Parenthood funding:
“Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their yes-men were never going to stop at abortion. But now the writing is on the wall.
Read this press release from Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats here.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, 238 Members of Congress—led by U.S. Senators Schumer, Murray, and Wyden, and U.S. Representatives Jeffries, Clark, Pallone, DeGette and Pressley—submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSAT) in Medina v. Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic, a case challenging South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster’s efforts to block participants in the state’s Medicaid program from accessing health care at the Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSAT) affiliate’s health centers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Congressional Reproductive Freedom Caucus (RFC) Co-Chairs Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-01) and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s plans to drop the U.S. government’s case against Idaho over the state’s violation of Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) protections for emergency abortion care:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Congressional Reproductive Freedom Caucus (RFC) Co-Chairs Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-01) and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s latest executive order aimed at in vitro fertilization (IVF):
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Congressional Reproductive Freedom Caucus (RFC) Co-Chairs Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-01) and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) released the following statement on the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services:
Read this press release from Rep. Julia Brownley here.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) announced the reintroduction of three bills to expand and improve health care for our nation’s women veterans. The bills include the Veterans Infertility Treatment Act, the Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act, and the Improving Menopause Care for Veterans Act.