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July 15, 2022
Letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Biden's Federal Departments Cannot Facilitate Abortions for Illegal Alien Minors
Rep. Mary Miller, ...
July 15, 2022
Foster Votes to Restore Reproductive Rights and Abortion Access Nationwide
Rep. Bill Foster
July 15, 2022
BOST VOTES AGAINST DEMOCRATS' ABORTION BILLS
Rep. Mike Bost
July 13, 2022
Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - U.S. Rep. John Rose Demands Biden Rescind Undemocratic and Unconstitutional Abortion Executive Order
Rep. Mary Miller, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Chuck Shumer, Majority Leader of the United States Senate - Titus Pushes for Emergency Title X Family Planning Program Funding
Rep. Lauren Underwood, ...
July 13, 2022
Tweet - "Women will die without Roe. Our health care system will be strained. We already have a heartbreakingly high maternal mortality rate--predicted to get worse with abortion bans. The cruelty of extreme anti-abortion lawmakers and judges puts the health & safety of Americans at risk."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 13, 2022
Letter to Hon. Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, and Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House - Senator Baldwin Joins Colleagues in Calling for Robust Family Planning Funding as States Criminalize Abortion
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health & Human Services - Urging Biden Administration to Declare a National Public Health Emergency on Reproductive Rights
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 12, 2022
Lieutenant Governor Of Illinois Testifies On How The Dobbs Decision Is Already Harming Individual States
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Durbin Delivers Opening Statement At Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Legal Consequences Of The Dobbs Decision
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Tweet - "Every American deserves to make their own decisions about when and how to start their family. But Republicans have decided they would rather put that control in the hands of politicians. Today's hearing is the first of many steps Democrats will take to fight back."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Declaring a National Emergency on Abortion Access
Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
July 12, 2022
Abortion Provider To Congress: The End Of Roe Is A Public Health Crisis
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Tweet - "We know the Republican plan: win control of Congress and impose a federal ban on abortion. Democrats have a different plan: protect your rights by enshrining into law a federal statutory right to an abortion. Politicians have no business making this decision."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Durbin Questions Witnesses In Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Legal Consequences Of The Dobbs Decision
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 8, 2022
Letters to CEOs of Data Brokerage Companies and CEOs of Health App Companies - Maloney, Krishnamoorthi, and Jacobs Launch Probe of Reproductive Health Data Privacy
Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
July 7, 2022
Tweet - "I was at @KSBHospital to announce $334K in federal funding @SenDuckworth and I secured to renovate their labor delivery unit. Providing quality care to mothers is essential in the maternal mortality crisis, which has an even greater urgency after the overturning of Roe v. Wade."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 6, 2022
Letter to Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission - Protect Data Privacy of People Seeking Reproductive Health Care
Rep. Danny Davis, ...
June 25, 2022
Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Murray, Democrats Push Biden for "Bold Action" to Protect Abortion Access in a Post-Roe America
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 24, 2022
Rep. Mary Miller on Scotus Decision to Overturn Roe V. Wade: "a Joyous Victory for Life!"
Rep. Mary Miller
June 24, 2022
BOST APPLAUDS SUPREME COURT RULING ON ABORTION
Rep. Mike Bost
June 24, 2022
Durbin Statement On Supreme Court Decision To Overturn Roe V. Wade
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 24, 2022
Casten Calls on Congress to Protect Abortion Rights After Egregious Scotus Decision Overturning Roe V. Wade
Rep. Sean Casten
June 24, 2022
LaHood Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Decision
Rep. Darin LaHood
June 24, 2022
Tweet - "Despite today's devastating news, erasing a constitutional right, it was an honor welcoming @VP to IL w/ @RepUnderwood and @RepRobinKelly . We met with maternal health care providers & discussed the maternal health crisis, as well as the grim fallout from today's SCOTUS decision."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 24, 2022
DUCKWORTH RESPONDS TO DANGEROUS, OUTRAGEOUS SUPREME COURT DECISION TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE, TAKING AWAY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOR MILLIONS
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
June 17, 2022
Letter to Lloyd Austin, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security - Reps. Crow & Speier Press to Expand Abortion Access & Support for US Servicemembers
Rep. Sean Casten, ...
June 8, 2022
Duckworth, Murray Introduce Legislation to Defend Reproductive and Sexual Healthcare
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
June 7, 2022
Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Murray, Warren Lead Over 20 Senators Urging President Biden to Issue Executive Order to Defend Americans' Right to an Abortion
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 2, 2022
Casten Launches New Digital Ad Highlight Gun Reform Efforts, Pro-Choice Record
Rep. Sean Casten
May 24, 2022
Letter to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google - Limit Collection and Storage of Location Data
Rep. Lauren Underwood, ...
May 20, 2022
Letter to Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization - Miss. Lawmakers Seek Withdrawal of WHO Abortion Guidelines
Rep. Mary Miller, ...
May 19, 2022
Tweet - "13 states, including OK, have trigger laws that would automatically ban abortion in the first & second trimesters if Roe is overturned. Between this and what's happening within the walls of SCOTUS, it has never been more urgent to codify the right to access an abortion into law."
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 19, 2022
Schumer, Murray, Senate Democratic Women: Democrats Aren't Backing Down from The Fight to Protect Abortion Rights
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
May 17, 2022
Letter to Auren Hoffman, Chief Executive Officer of Safegraph, Inc. - Blumenthal, Murphy Blast Data Brokers for Collecting & Selling Cell Phone Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
May 17, 2022
Letter to Noam Ben-Zvi, Chief Executive Officer of Placer.ai - Blumenthal, Murphy Blast Data Brokers for Collecting & Selling Cell Phone Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
May 16, 2022
Rep. Mary Miller to Pritzker: Federal Funds Cannot Be Used for Abortion
Rep. Mary Miller
May 12, 2022
Letter to Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense - Peters Joins Senate Colleagues in Urging Defense Secretary to Protect Abortion Rights, Access to Critical Health Care for Servicemembers
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
May 11, 2022
Duckworth on Republicans Blocking Legislation to Protect Women's Constitutional Rights to Choose
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
May 10, 2022
Letter to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Working to Restore Access to Medicaid Reproductive Health Services
Rep. Sean Casten, ...
May 10, 2022
Letter to Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader - Abolishing the Filibuster and Protecting Reproductive Freedom
Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
May 5, 2022
Judiciary Committee Advances U.S. Attorney, Bipartisan Competition Legislation
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Tweet - "There is a reason Republicans are trying to convince you that the "leaker" is the big story today. Republicans are afraid to own the outcome they have been chasing for decades now--a post-Roe America, one where American children have fewer rights than their parents did."
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Tweet - "America woke up today to the news that one of their constitutional rights is about to be taken away. And this decision could threaten other rights that Americans hold dear. @SenateDems and the nation must stand up for #RoeVWade."
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Bost Statement on Leaked Supreme Court Opinion on Abortion
Rep. Mike Bost
May 3, 2022
Durbin Statement on the Future of Roe V. Wade
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Tweet - "Make no mistake about it: this is about the state going into your home and telling you how to plan your family. And now, for the first time in years, Americans' right to privacy and freedom are up in the air--entirely dependent on a dubiously-obtained SCOTUS majority."
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Tweet - "Millions of Americans woke up to the realization that a constitutional right many have known their whole lives is on the verge of being extinguished. Regardless of the Court's final decision, we must enshrine into law the right to make one's own reproductive health care choices."
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Duckworth Reacts to Reports of Draft Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe V. Wade
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
May 2, 2022
Congressman Krishnamoorthi Denounces Draft Supreme Court Opinion Overturning Roe V. Wade, Stripping American Women Of Their Right To Choose
Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
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July 15, 2022
Letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Biden's Federal Departments Cannot Facilitate Abortions for Illegal Alien Minors
Rep.Mary Miller, ...
July 15, 2022
Foster Votes to Restore Reproductive Rights and Abortion Access Nationwide
Rep.Bill Foster
July 15, 2022
BOST VOTES AGAINST DEMOCRATS' ABORTION BILLS
Rep.Mike Bost
July 13, 2022
Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - U.S. Rep. John Rose Demands Biden Rescind Undemocratic and Unconstitutional Abortion Executive Order
Rep.Mary Miller, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Chuck Shumer, Majority Leader of the United States Senate - Titus Pushes for Emergency Title X Family Planning Program Funding
Rep.Lauren Underwood, ...
July 13, 2022
Tweet - "Women will die without Roe. Our health care system will be strained. We already have a heartbreakingly high maternal mortality rate--predicted to get worse with abortion bans. The cruelty of extreme anti-abortion lawmakers and judges puts the health & safety of Americans at risk."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 13, 2022
Letter to Hon. Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, and Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House - Senator Baldwin Joins Colleagues in Calling for Robust Family Planning Funding as States Criminalize Abortion
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health & Human Services - Urging Biden Administration to Declare a National Public Health Emergency on Reproductive Rights
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 12, 2022
Lieutenant Governor Of Illinois Testifies On How The Dobbs Decision Is Already Harming Individual States
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Durbin Delivers Opening Statement At Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Legal Consequences Of The Dobbs Decision
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Tweet - "Every American deserves to make their own decisions about when and how to start their family. But Republicans have decided they would rather put that control in the hands of politicians. Today's hearing is the first of many steps Democrats will take to fight back."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Declaring a National Emergency on Abortion Access
Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
July 12, 2022
Abortion Provider To Congress: The End Of Roe Is A Public Health Crisis
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Tweet - "We know the Republican plan: win control of Congress and impose a federal ban on abortion. Democrats have a different plan: protect your rights by enshrining into law a federal statutory right to an abortion. Politicians have no business making this decision."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Durbin Questions Witnesses In Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Legal Consequences Of The Dobbs Decision
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 8, 2022
Letters to CEOs of Data Brokerage Companies and CEOs of Health App Companies - Maloney, Krishnamoorthi, and Jacobs Launch Probe of Reproductive Health Data Privacy
Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
July 7, 2022
Tweet - "I was at @KSBHospital to announce $334K in federal funding @SenDuckworth and I secured to renovate their labor delivery unit. Providing quality care to mothers is essential in the maternal mortality crisis, which has an even greater urgency after the overturning of Roe v. Wade."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 6, 2022
Letter to Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission - Protect Data Privacy of People Seeking Reproductive Health Care
Rep.Danny Davis, ...
June 25, 2022
Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Murray, Democrats Push Biden for "Bold Action" to Protect Abortion Access in a Post-Roe America
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 24, 2022
Rep. Mary Miller on Scotus Decision to Overturn Roe V. Wade: "a Joyous Victory for Life!"
Rep.Mary Miller
June 24, 2022
BOST APPLAUDS SUPREME COURT RULING ON ABORTION
Rep.Mike Bost
June 24, 2022
Durbin Statement On Supreme Court Decision To Overturn Roe V. Wade
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 24, 2022
Casten Calls on Congress to Protect Abortion Rights After Egregious Scotus Decision Overturning Roe V. Wade
Rep.Sean Casten
June 24, 2022
LaHood Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Decision
Rep.Darin LaHood
June 24, 2022
Tweet - "Despite today's devastating news, erasing a constitutional right, it was an honor welcoming @VP to IL w/ @RepUnderwood and @RepRobinKelly . We met with maternal health care providers & discussed the maternal health crisis, as well as the grim fallout from today's SCOTUS decision."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 24, 2022
DUCKWORTH RESPONDS TO DANGEROUS, OUTRAGEOUS SUPREME COURT DECISION TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE, TAKING AWAY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOR MILLIONS
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
June 17, 2022
Letter to Lloyd Austin, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security - Reps. Crow & Speier Press to Expand Abortion Access & Support for US Servicemembers
Rep.Sean Casten, ...
June 8, 2022
Duckworth, Murray Introduce Legislation to Defend Reproductive and Sexual Healthcare
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
June 7, 2022
Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Murray, Warren Lead Over 20 Senators Urging President Biden to Issue Executive Order to Defend Americans' Right to an Abortion
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 2, 2022
Casten Launches New Digital Ad Highlight Gun Reform Efforts, Pro-Choice Record
Rep.Sean Casten
May 24, 2022
Letter to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google - Limit Collection and Storage of Location Data
Rep.Lauren Underwood, ...
May 20, 2022
Letter to Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization - Miss. Lawmakers Seek Withdrawal of WHO Abortion Guidelines
Rep.Mary Miller, ...
May 19, 2022
Tweet - "13 states, including OK, have trigger laws that would automatically ban abortion in the first & second trimesters if Roe is overturned. Between this and what's happening within the walls of SCOTUS, it has never been more urgent to codify the right to access an abortion into law."
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 19, 2022
Schumer, Murray, Senate Democratic Women: Democrats Aren't Backing Down from The Fight to Protect Abortion Rights
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
May 17, 2022
Letter to Auren Hoffman, Chief Executive Officer of Safegraph, Inc. - Blumenthal, Murphy Blast Data Brokers for Collecting & Selling Cell Phone Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
May 17, 2022
Letter to Noam Ben-Zvi, Chief Executive Officer of Placer.ai - Blumenthal, Murphy Blast Data Brokers for Collecting & Selling Cell Phone Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
May 16, 2022
Rep. Mary Miller to Pritzker: Federal Funds Cannot Be Used for Abortion
Rep.Mary Miller
May 12, 2022
Letter to Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense - Peters Joins Senate Colleagues in Urging Defense Secretary to Protect Abortion Rights, Access to Critical Health Care for Servicemembers
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
May 11, 2022
Duckworth on Republicans Blocking Legislation to Protect Women's Constitutional Rights to Choose
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
May 10, 2022
Letter to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Working to Restore Access to Medicaid Reproductive Health Services
Rep.Sean Casten, ...
May 10, 2022
Letter to Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader - Abolishing the Filibuster and Protecting Reproductive Freedom
Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
May 5, 2022
Judiciary Committee Advances U.S. Attorney, Bipartisan Competition Legislation
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Tweet - "There is a reason Republicans are trying to convince you that the "leaker" is the big story today. Republicans are afraid to own the outcome they have been chasing for decades now--a post-Roe America, one where American children have fewer rights than their parents did."
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Tweet - "America woke up today to the news that one of their constitutional rights is about to be taken away. And this decision could threaten other rights that Americans hold dear. @SenateDems and the nation must stand up for #RoeVWade."
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Bost Statement on Leaked Supreme Court Opinion on Abortion
Rep.Mike Bost
May 3, 2022
Durbin Statement on the Future of Roe V. Wade
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Tweet - "Make no mistake about it: this is about the state going into your home and telling you how to plan your family. And now, for the first time in years, Americans' right to privacy and freedom are up in the air--entirely dependent on a dubiously-obtained SCOTUS majority."
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Tweet - "Millions of Americans woke up to the realization that a constitutional right many have known their whole lives is on the verge of being extinguished. Regardless of the Court's final decision, we must enshrine into law the right to make one's own reproductive health care choices."
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 3, 2022
Duckworth Reacts to Reports of Draft Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe V. Wade
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
May 2, 2022
Congressman Krishnamoorthi Denounces Draft Supreme Court Opinion Overturning Roe V. Wade, Stripping American Women Of Their Right To Choose
Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
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