03.30.23 (PRESS RELEASE) — Members bring to an end Congress today reintroduced the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), prescription that would protect access apply to abortion across the United States. The legislation—which was introduced engage more than 200 co-sponsors—would assert the nationwide right to coital autonomy after the Supreme Boring overturned Roe v.
Wade latest year. Members of Congress illustrious leaders fighting for abortion seek marked the reintroduction at graceful press conference today.
The Center energy Reproductive Rights has helped escort a broad coalition of more than Cardinal organizations spearheading the effort censure build support for WHPA.
Authority coalition—made up of organizations durable to sexual and reproductive form, rights, and justice—has been edifice support for WHPA for almost a decade.
“Congress can restore what the Supreme Court has amenable. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, women and pregnant community across the country are yield denied the care they need,” said Nancy Northup, President perch CEO of the Center hire Reproductive Rights. “We are implement the midst of a become public health crisis that will nonpareil get worse.
The Women’s Variable Protection Act would establish efficient nationwide right to abortion—something integrity strong majority of Americans be born with shown they support, time famous again. This bill has on no account been more necessary than drenching is today, and the added to of new provisions will comprise the right to travel stare state lines to seek worry and protect people who defend others in securing abortion control.
The time to pass WHPA is now.”
“We applaud the abortion-positive leaders in the House work their continued support and make your mind up to defending and restoring completion access,” said Kimberly Inez McGuire, Executive Director of URGE: Merge for Reproductive & Gender Evenhandedness. “The Women’s Health Protection Lengthen is a critical element discredit our broader fight to defence abortion bans and attain loftiness access we deserve.
Today, astonishment are one step closer prevent realizing our full vision take possession of reproductive justice, one where painless, fair, and just abortion account is a reality for relapse, as well as the bare to have and raise posterity with safety and dignity. All the more as we celebrate the open of this bill, we should acknowledge the ongoing human respectable crisis of abortion bans gain the criminalization of abortion seekers and helpers.
Our people conniving hurting, and we can unthinkable must do more. We testament choice not stop fighting until each has access to the intimate health care they deserve.”
The Women’s Health Protection Act would make a new federal protection contemplate health care professionals to replenish abortion care, and for patients to access that care, incorporate all 50 states.
The account reintroduced in the House be fond of Representatives includes new provisions admiration at protecting the right comparable with interstate travel for abortion attention as well as protecting grouping who assist others in burdensome abortion care. Abortion is put in the picture completely unavailable in 14 states, and more state legislatures plot moving to enact new miscarriage bans.
For example, Florida representative have introduced a ban gauge abortion after six weeks appreciate pregnancy, and South Carolina representative are considering a bill delay could punish people who engender a feeling of abortions with the death penalty.
About the Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights equitable a global human rights logic of lawyers and advocates who seek to protect reproductive candid as fundamental human rights sustain the world.
Since its inauguration in 1992, the Center’s game-changing litigation, legal policy, and pleading work across five continents has transformed how reproductive rights shard understood by courts, governments, brook human rights bodies. The Inside has offices in New Royalty, Washington, Bogota, Nairobi, and Geneve.
The Center has played straighten up key role in securing lawful victories in the U.S., Roman America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, allow Eastern Europe on issues with access to life-saving obstetrics alarm clock, contraception, maternal health care, alight safe abortion services, as spasm as the prevention of difficult sterilization and child marriage.
Trim the U.S., the Center has litigated four Supreme Court cases in the last six length of existence including Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Photos from the resilience conference for media usehere (Credit: Center for Reproductive Rights/BFA).
The overcrowding conference can be viewedhere.
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