{"id":1036227,"date":"2024-06-24T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1036227"},"modified":"2024-06-24T23:14:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:14:59","slug":"icymi-two-years-after-dobbs-democrats-continue-to-fight-for-americans-reproductive-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-two-years-after-dobbs-democrats-continue-to-fight-for-americans-reproductive-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Two Years After Dobbs, Democrats Continue to Fight for Americans\u2019 Reproductive Freedom\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the two years since Donald Trump\u2019s hand-picked Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>, Democrats from state houses, to the halls of Congress, to the Oval Office have responded with unprecedented action to protect women\u2019s reproductive freedoms against MAGA abortion bans and attacks on reproductive care by organizing and mobilizing against anti-abortion extremism. MAGA extremists from Louisiana<\/a> to Idaho<\/a> have tried everything to undermine our rights, from total abortion bans with no exceptions to ripping away access to IVF and refusing to protect access to contraception, and even criminalizing safe and effective medication abortion pills. Meanwhile, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats across the country are fighting to defend women\u2019s freedom to make their own health care decisions \u2014 and come November, Trump and MAGA Republicans\u2019 extreme anti-choice agenda will be defeated once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Democratic leaders from the DNC, DCCC, and DSCC underlined the battle for reproductive freedom as a defining issue in this election up and down the ballot, outlined how critical it is to not only reelect President Biden and Vice President Harris but also to elect Democrats to the House and Senate who will protect reproductive rights, and laid out what\u2019s at stakes this November for women across the country who are already suffering under Donald Trump\u2019s extreme abortion bans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNC Chair Jaime Harrison<\/a>: \u201cWe need someone who will fight to restore the protections of Roe<\/em>, go to the mat for access to contraception, and uplift the voices of women nationwide. … Under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 leadership, we have defended reproductive freedom in the courtroom, protected access to abortion for our military families, and we have strengthened access to contraception. … And with four more years in the White House and a majority in Congress, President Biden will codify the protections of Roe as the law of the land.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DSCC Vice Chair Sen. Tina Smith<\/a>: \u201cOn record and on video, Republican Senate candidates have made it clear that they oppose women’s rights to make their own decisions and that they stand in lockstep with their party\u2019s dangerous agenda to control women\u2019s reproductive health care by banning abortion with no exceptions. \u2026 Republicans say that they have a messaging problem on reproductive freedom and abortion care. No, they have a policy problem because they’re on the wrong side of American voters, and you can see it when you go to GOPonabortion.com.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene<\/a>: \u201cThis election is fundamentally about our rights, our freedoms, our democracy, and our future. House Republicans have made it clear that they\u2019re willing to do anything to take those away. At the DCCC, we remain fully committed to supporting candidates who are standing up for our freedoms and our families, and holding Republicans accountable for their extreme anti-abortion stances. Come November, we\u2019ll take back the House of Representatives and defend our rights and enshrine the protections of Roe<\/em> once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DNC also hosted a press call with Reproductive Freedom For All President Mini Timmaraju and Democrats from Republican-controlled states to remind voters that Trump owns every single extreme abortion ban in states across the country \u2014 and no state, no matter red, blue, or purple \u2014 would be safe from his plans for a national ban if he retakes power.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mini Timmaraju, President and CEO, Reproductive Freedom for All<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve got to keep repeating that this is the America that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans built. Trump cemented the anti-abortion majority on the court who handed down the Dobbs decision and opened the door for abortion bans that are putting pregnant people\u2019s health, well-being, and lives on the line. Make no mistake: if Republicans win majorities in Congress and Donald Trump, god forbid, locks in the presidency, a national abortion ban is next.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMake no mistake whoever his MAGA vice president pick ends up being will be lining up to help make that happen. Every single one of his potential picks is just as extreme as he is. These candidates are hellbent, hellbent, on ending abortion access in every state, and they will not stop there. From the previous policies they\u2019ve supported to their hateful remarks, and embarrassing, embarrassing, displays of MAGA loyalty, Trump\u2019s potential running mates are all falling in line behind him as he doubles down on his extreme anti-abortion platform, calling the abortion bans he helped orchestrate \u2018a beautiful thing to watch\u2019 even as they deny people the care they need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alabama State Rep. Marilyn Lands<\/a>: \u201cNow women in our state and others, because of the draconian abortion ban, are being forced to travel out of state to receive the same care that I depended on because today they have fewer rights than I did when I was forced to make one of the most difficult decisions of my life. The past two years have proven that overturning Roe v. Wade<\/em> wasn\u2019t the end \u2013 it\u2019s just the beginning of Republicans\u2019 assault on reproductive health care. These attacks are harming so many women and exasperating long-standing health inequalities. Because Trump overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>, women are struggling to access the very basic care they need \u2013 especially women living in our rural communities, where Trump has supercharged a health care workforce shortage and created a real medical crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeanna Repass, Kansas Democratic Party Chair<\/a>: \u201cMake no mistake: if Donald Trump wins a second term as president, all of the work that Democrats have done to protect abortion in Kansas will be for nothing because Trump is hellbent on implementing a national abortion ban that would overturn the will of our voters. It\u2019s critical that we mobilize voters in every single state \u2013 no matter if they swing red, or blue, or purple \u2013 we have to reelect President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Necochea, Idaho Democratic Party Chair<\/a>: \u201cIdaho is a terrifying cautionary tale for our nation. When Republicans seize power, they cater to the fringe, anti-abortion hardliners, no matter the human suffering. Since we lost protections from a lower court ruling for medical emergencies, Idaho\u2019s largest health system has been airlifting patients with pregnancy complications out of state every two weeks. Lacking any compassion, Republican leaders went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to maintain this horrific reality. Now, the same Supreme Court justices that overturned Roe are preparing to hand down their decision on whether or not women across the country have the right to emergency reproductive care due to Idaho\u2019s MAGA Republican politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DNC is investing <\/strong>millions<\/em><\/strong> to build up infrastructure across the country and help elect Democrats up and down the ballot to defend women\u2019s reproductive freedoms. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cThe Democratic National Committee is launching a new effort to put abortion top of mind for women across the country as the country marks two years since the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which ended the constitutional right to an abortion. According to a new memo, shown exclusively to CBS News, the DNC is investing at least $8.3 million across every state party in the country this year \u2014  a 25% increase since 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn addition to the investments across all state parties, the DNC has also given seven-figure grants to battleground state parties to focus their messaging on abortion ahead of the presidential election. The memo also states that the DNC is \u2018building infrastructure in red states to fight back against these bans\u2019 with what is known as the \u2018Red State Fund.\u2019 The fund \u2014 which targets traditionally Republican states \u2014 will be the offensive arm for Democrats to provide resources and education against abortion restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the two years since Donald Trump\u2019s hand-picked Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade, Democrats from state houses, to the halls of Congress, to the Oval Office have responded with unprecedented action to protect women\u2019s reproductive freedoms against MAGA abortion bans and attacks on reproductive care by organizing and mobilizing against anti-abortion extremism. 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