Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement on the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and threaten reproductive freedom for millions of American women.
“On this day in 2022, former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court put abortion, birth control, and IVF at risk. Two years later, women all over the country are fighting to access basic reproductive health care,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “We know that anti-choice extremists aren’t done coming after women’s rights. That’s why today, and every day, I’m standing with pro-choice Americans to defend women’s freedoms.”
Senator Cortez Masto has been a fierce advocate for women’s reproductive rights. In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Cortez Masto introduced the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act to ensure legal protections for women traveling across state lines to receive reproductive care. Last week, she introduced legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, which Republicans and anti-choice extremists want to misuse to ban abortion nationwide. She’s championed the Women’s Health Protection Act and is a cosponsor of legislation to codify the right to contraception and IVF. She took on one of the nation’s biggest pharmaceutical wholesalers to ensure Nevadans can access the abortion pill in retail pharmacies, including Walgreens and CVS.
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