Press Releases

July 22, 2024 | Press Releases

For immediate release: Vice President Harris has a long record of defending and expanding reproductive health and rights for everyone. She’s been the voice and face of the Biden-Harris administration on these issues since the Dobbs decision. In the Senate, she supported efforts to end the Global Gag Rule and…...

June 26, 2024 | Press Releases

The decision leaked today, if accurate, is a cynical delay designed more to protect the political prospects of MAGA Republicans than the health of pregnant people needing emergency care. The Supreme Court had the chance — indeed the duty — to make clear that EMTALA (the Emergency Medical Treatment and…...

April 9, 2024 | Press Releases

The decision by Arizona’s Supreme Court to uphold a 19th century abortion ban in the state is horrifying and infuriating. There’s one person to whom most of the blame belongs: disgraced former president Donald Trump. We are hopeful that the people of Arizona will enshrine reproductive freedom in the state…...

January 9, 2024 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE We are grateful for the action taken today by the Biden-Harris administration to repeal the Trump-era Refusal of Care Rule. The old Trump rule, which was blocked by courts across the country, would have allowed health care workers to deny care to people who needed it under…...

October 25, 2023 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mike Johnson has no business being in Congress, let alone being the leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a leader of the failed effort to overturn the 2020 election and keep the loser in power. He is a rabid opponent of reproductive freedom and…...

September 15, 2022 | Press Releases

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and 25 other Republicans in the U.S. House introduced a bill yesterday to give legal protection to pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions to which they have a personal objection. It is of course designed to deny service to women seeking contraceptives, medication abortion, and other…...

September 6, 2022 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A new report by Population Connection Action Fund assigns a failing grade to every Republican in the House and Senate for their refusal to vote in favor of reproductive rights. The 2022 Congressional Report Card provides a snapshot of how all members of Congress voted on important…...

July 8, 2022 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE President Biden’s Portrait We’re heartened by President Biden’s Executive Order today. The loss of abortion rights is a human rights disaster and public health catastrophe. We need the President and the entire administration fully engaged in doing everything in their power to protect access to care. Today’s…...

June 30, 2022 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Today’s decision by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency is disgraceful. Once again, a partisan majority of justices showed contempt for the citizens they’re supposed to protect. Once again, they threw their full weight behind the powerful at the expense of everyone else.…...

June 24, 2022 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is horrifying and infuriating and exactly what we feared when the Trump administration rushed three ultraconservative justices onto the bench. We feared this outcome when Mitch McConnell stole a seat on the Court for Neil Gorsuch. And when…...