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Senate and House Democrats took to social media Saturday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, targeting the “six far-right justices” who ruled on abortion.
The comments from elected Democrats came as thousands of pro-life advocates gathered in the nation’s capital to celebrate last summer’s Supreme Court ruling that ended recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and individual states’ power to authorize, restrict, or prohibit abortion. practice at all.
“In the year since far-right Supreme Court justices toppled Roe, millions of Americans lost their fundamental right to decide what happens to their own bodies. But in that year, millions more stood up to defend those rights,” Senator Kirsten Gillibrand , D.N.Y., wrote in a tweet. “They organized, voted and supported each other. And it’s those Americans who give me hope.”
“Together we will continue to fight until we restore our reproductive freedom,” Gillibrand added.
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From left to right: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, DN.Y., Senator Bob Menendez, DN.J., and Representative Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. (Alex Wong, Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“A year ago today, six far-right Supreme Court justices tossed out decades of legal precedent and dismantled the legal liberties enshrined in Roe v. Wade,” noted Senator Bob Menendez, DN.J., in a tweet, who wrote a statement on this.
In his statement, Menendez claimed that in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the “majority decided to relinquish their oath to uphold the rule of law in favor of fanning the flames of extremist efforts to end women’s bodily autonomy and promote progress to unravel what we have created as a society.”
Menendez claimed that the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade “has opened the floodgates for dangerous attacks on reproductive health care and other long-protected freedoms.”
Senator Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., shared her views on the issue, insisting in a video message that the “activist Supreme Court” ruling was “devastating to the health, safety and future of millions of women across America.”
“Having the freedom to take control of your health care, your body and your future, free from government interference, is a fundamental right,” she said.
Following his colleagues, Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., wrote in a tweet that the “six extremist Supreme Court justices have toppled a longstanding precedent for access to abortion”.
“The decision to have an abortion is a difficult one — and one that only a woman should make. No experts, no legislators,” Merkley said. “In Oregon, the right to abortion is protected by state law. But our fight continues to establish the right to the full range of reproductive health care for EVERYONE in our country.”
Reflecting President Biden’s rhetoric, Merkely added, “Make no mistake: MAGA Republicans and the extremist pundits who cheer them on are pushing for a national abortion ban — a dangerous proposal that puts patients at risk. I will continue to fight to protect reproductive freedom.”
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, DR.I., also addressed the court’s decision, saying Americans must “fight” to prevent members of the court from “imposing a backward, extreme agenda.”
Women’s March activists attend a protest in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the historic Roe v. Wade abortion decision in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2022. (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)
“A year ago, a far-right Supreme Court majority overturned Roe’s decades-old precedent, eliminating women’s right to make their own reproductive decisions,” Whitehouse wrote in a tweet. “We must fight against the Court that is imposing a backward, extreme agenda on our country.”
Similar to Baldwin’s, House Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.
“A year ago today, the right-wing majority of the Supreme Court made a radical decision to deprive millions of Americans of the right to an abortion,” she wrote in a tweet. “But we will not back down. We will fight back and ensure that this constitutional right is guaranteed.”
“We now live in an America where generations of people have grown up assuming that certain things are here to stay and face a future where they have fewer rights than their parents and grandparents,” Jayapal said in the video. “An America where far-right lawmakers are so out of step with their own voters that they want to take away the fundamental freedoms that a majority of the American people support.”
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While discussing the “choice” of terminating her own pregnancy at some point, Jayapal said the decision to have an abortion should be made only “between the individual, their physician and the loved ones they wish to consult”.
Two dozen states – Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming – since the Dobbs ruling, all have passed laws restricting abortions except to save the mother’s life. Most of these states also have exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. Several of these state bans are held up in court cases.
Kristine Parks of Fox News contributed to this article.
