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The U.S. House plans to vote this week on a bill introduced by North Carolina’s Rep. Kathy Manning to protect a person’s right to access contraception.
Manning, a Democrat who represents a portion of the Triad, introduced the bill last week in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, a 1973 decision that protected a person’s right to an abortion.
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade that established the right to an abortion, with a ruling that marks a seismic shift in abortion law and will usher in new rules limiting or banning access to the procedure in half of the states, in some places immediately.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday morning, however access to abortions remains protected in Colorado — one of 16 states that has enshrined it into state law.
Republicans in Congress were jubilant at the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning decades of precedent to revoke a constitutional right to an abortion, while Democrats were equally despondent about what they called an extremist decision that revoked a long-held right and represented an attack on women’s autonomy.
In this piece, originally published in May 2022, five members of Congress gathered to discuss their personal abortion stories. Today, June 24, 2022, we revisit their words, as the Supreme Court overturns Roe v.
A group of Black women in Congress are urging President Joe Biden to take urgent action to protect abortion rights, as the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and seizes abortion access from millions of people across the country.
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-13), co-chair of the Pro- Choice Caucus, released a statement on the failure of the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) — legislation that protects the right to access abortion nationwide — in the Senate on May 11.
This legislation safeguards abortion rights against the barrage of state-based attacks and provides a bulwark against the anticipated Supreme Court action to strike down or erode the protections established in Roe v. Wade and failed by a vote of 49-51 in the Senate.