Rep. Delgado Votes to Defend Reproductive Health Rights Against Dangerous Assaults, Enshrine Roe v. Wade Protections into Law
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Today, U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19) voted to defend women's constitutional right to reproductive health care with H.R. 3755, the Women's Health Protection Act. Amid a dangerous assault on women's basic health freedoms -- from state houses across the country to the U.S. Supreme Court -- this landmark legislation enshrines into law the vital protections of Roe v. Wade and secures the right to reproductive care for all women across America.
"Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, and it should remain the law of the land. Today, I proudly voted to defend every woman's right to reproductive health care," said Rep. Delgado.
For years, radical state legislatures have waged an all-out assault on women's reproductive rights. 2021 is on track to be the worst legislative year for women's health rights ever, with 90 measures restricting reproductive rights enacted since July -- more than in any year since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. On May 19th, Texas enacted SB 8, which is now the most extreme abortion law in effect in the United States. This legislation outlaws nearly all abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for rape and incest, while also creating a bounty system that deputizes private citizens to sue health care providers or anyone else they believe has helped a woman get an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
Despite its flagrant violation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court voted to permit this law to go into effect. The Supreme Court could take further action to gut Roe's essential protections when it considers Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on December 1st. The Women's Health Protection Act codifies the constitutional rights found in Roe.
On September 20, Rep. Delgado also joined a bicameral amicus brief in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, challenging Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban.
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