Source: United States Senator for Delaware Christopher Coons
WASHINGTON—Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after the publication of a purported draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was released that would overturn Roe v. Wade:
“Reversing the long-settled protections in Roe is outrageous. Every woman in America deserves the chance to make their own reproductive health care choices. Should this decision become law, roughly half the states in our country will make all or nearly all abortions illegal, leading to gross inequalities in health care access. This decision would be the end result of a decades-long conservative campaign to construct a Supreme Court that would gut the right to choose, put at risk women’s access to birth control and allow states to criminalize women seeking access to reproductive health care, even in cases of rape or incest.
“This country cannot return to a time of unsafe, back-alley abortions. It’s more important than ever that we work to make sure women broadly have access to reproductive health care.”
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