Insider News Center: From New York City Insider: Espaillat, Cherfilus-McCormick Lead Congressional Resolution Condemning SCOTUS Decision To Overturn Roe & Casey.

 

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release July 6, 2022

Representatives Espaillat, Cherfilus-McCormick Lead Congressional Resolution Condemning SCOTUS Decision To Overturn Roe & Casey. Resolution Recognizes Access to Abortion Constitutes Access to Health Care as a Fundamental Liberty & The Need for Judicial Reform.   WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20) introduced a resolution condemning the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and reaffirming their commitment to advancing reproductive justice and judicial reform. Approximately 64,000,000 women and girls of reproductive age live in the United States, and more than half of them live in states that could seek to ban or further restrict access to abortion now that the Supreme Court overturned Roe and Casey. As Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan stated in their dissenting opinion, the holding in Dobbs results in the “curtailment of women’s right, and of their status as free and equal citizens.” Women living in poverty, people of color, undocumented persons, as well as transgender and gender non-binary individuals will be disproportionately harmed by the Supreme Court’s action. The decision to end the federal constitutional right to an abortion strips these groups of choice and will have reverberating negative personal and financial outcomes, including financial instability, the ability to attain higher education, as well as disruptions to the overall health care for people reliant on clinics for preventative care.

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