{"id":1053695,"date":"2025-06-25T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053695"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:12:54","slug":"icymi-dnc-calls-out-republicans-attacks-on-womens-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-dnc-calls-out-republicans-attacks-on-womens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: DNC Calls Out Republicans\u2019 Attacks on Women’s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday, the DNC hosted a press call featuring DNC Chair Ken Martin<\/strong>, Planned Parenthood Action Fund President & CEO Alexis McGill Johnson<\/strong>, Reproductive Freedom for All President & CEO Mini Timmaraju<\/strong>, and Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde <\/strong>to highlight Republicans\u2019 attacks on women\u2019s reproductive rights during the three years since Donald Trump\u2019s handpicked judges overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find highlights from the call below: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNC Chair Ken Martin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, we find ourselves in a nation that has grown ever more divisive, with leaders who aren\u2019t merely indifferent to the suffering of women and their families \u2013 but actually want to target and inflict cruelty on those women,\u201d said DNC Chair Ken Martin<\/strong>. \u201cThree years after the Dobbs<\/em> decision, we have witnessed maternal and infant mortality rates spike. We have seen Republicans in Congress and across the states chip away at women\u2019s personal freedom and health care access. These anti-freedom attacks go directly against the will of the American people, who overwhelmingly support abortion rights, support abortion access, and in many cases have directly voted to protect it. This is not an issue about right or left. This is an issue about right or wrong, and our party will always stand with women when they make their health care decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planned Parenthood Action Fund President & CEO Alexis McGill Johnson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPregnant people, some facing immediate danger to their health or lives, have been forced to flee their states and travel hundreds of miles for care that should be available in every community, to everyone who needs it,\u201d said President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>Alexis McGill Johnson.<\/strong> \u201cThe reconciliation bill is jam-packed with provisions that will harm the health and futures of the American people \u2013 it includes one that would defund Planned Parenthood, putting nearly 200 Planned Parenthood health centers at risk of closure. More than 90% of those closures would be in states where abortion is still protected.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know that once our rights are gone, we have to work twice as hard to win them back, and that\u2019s why we remember the Dobbs<\/em> decision. We cannot let our guard down in <\/p>\n\n\n\n

the face of anti-abortion extremism,\u201d said Reproductive Freedom for All President & CEO Mini Timmaraju.<\/strong> \u201cAmber Nicole Thurman, Josseli Barnica, Candi Miller, Nevaeh Crain, Porsha Ngumezi. These are the names of women who have died preventable deaths because of Donald Trump\u2019s orchestration of the end of Roe v. Wade<\/em>. But we also know that ending Roe<\/em> was only the beginning of these GOP attacks on our fundamental freedoms. For one, Trump\u2019s budget bill to defund Planned Parenthood will be voted on in the coming weeks. That bill would force 200 Planned Parenthood health centers to close. Health centers that provide cancer screenings, birth controls, STI testing, and so much more. That defunding would mean millions of people looking for abortion care will have nowhere to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know that these extreme, anti-freedom bans are deeply unpopular. For years, a majority of Americans have opposed abortion bans, and in states with Republican leadership like mine, we\u2019ve seen voters rise up to demand reproductive rights protections,\u201d said Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde.<\/strong> \u201cIn Ohio, in 2023, voters mobilized during an off-year election in historic numbers to enshrine abortion protections into the state\u2019s constitution. Though they succeeded in passing Issue 1, that hasn\u2019t stopped extreme Republicans from attacking the will of the people and targeting women\u2019s fundamental freedom. Just last week, Republicans in the Ohio state legislature announced their plans to introduce a total abortion ban \u2013 without exceptions for rape and incest. In fact, this bill would not only outlaw abortion, it would charge women seeking abortions with homicide, while banning IVF and certain contraceptives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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