Speier also shared that she needed an abortion after she had a miscarriage and that she needed to wait several days to have the procedure. “You have very selective memories,” she said. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, said that Democrats have always denounced violence and called out Republicans for not recognizing the 11 people who have been murdered at abortion centers or the 186 arsons at those centers. Such nonprofits look like real health care clinics but are used to persuade pregnant patients to not get an abortion. James Comer of Kentucky, said that Democrats are “fearmongering” the Dobbs decision and criticized them for not denouncing attacks on “crisis pregnancy centers.” A man with a gun was arrested near Kavanaugh’s home, and later arraigned on one count of attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice, the Guardian reported. Republicans on the committee focused on threats aimed at the conservative Supreme Court justices who backed the Dobbs ruling.Ībortion rights protestors have marched outside the homes of justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Maloney said the committee tried to get abortion providers to testify, but she said they were afraid they would be subject to violence if they spoke out before Congress. “Today, with two dozen ‘trigger’ bans going into effect, involuntary reproductive servitude has returned, but only for women, girls, and pregnant capable people.” “There is an insidious and odious irony to this, because Congress abolished human slavery in the U.S., and repealed draft laws that forced young men to surrender their bodies to the state in order to protect our nation,” she said. “When states coerce and force women, girls, and people with the capacity for pregnancy to remain pregnant against their will, they create human chattel and incubators of them,” Goodwin said in her testimony. Wednesday’s hearing in the House was one of four in Congress this week on abortion as lawmakers struggle to assess the impact of the sweeping court ruling on pregnant patients and abortion care providers. The Democratic-controlled House is expected to vote later this week on abortion legislation. Wade, the court ruling on abortion rights that was overturned, but there are not enough votes in the evenly divided Senate to do so. The New York Democrat added that House Democrats are doing everything they can to enshrine in law Roe v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling on June 24 “takes us backwards,” and warned that Republicans are pushing for a nationwide ban on abortion. They also face additional barriers in obtaining transportation to those clinics, she said.Ĭhairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee Carolyn B. She said that rural Georgians are particularly vulnerable, as many don’t have broadband internet, which would help them get information online on where to obtain an abortion. “Simply put, we would be outlawing access to (health) care,” Renitta Shannon, a member of the Georgia state House of Representatives, said.
Supreme Court decision that overturned the constitutional right to abortion. “It is essentially a death sentence,” Michele Bratcher Goodwin, the chancellor’s professor of law at the University of California, told lawmakers.ĭemocratic state legislators from Michigan and Georgia added that Black and low-income pregnant patients would suffer under the recent U.S.
House committee on Wednesday that pregnant patients who can’t obtain abortions will face higher mortality rates if they are forced to carry their pregnancies to term.
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