Blumenthal Honors 41st Anniversary Of Roe V. Wade
Sponsor Of “Historic” Women’s Health Protection Act Warns Against State Laws And Regulations That Are Encroaching On A Woman’s Right To Choose
(Hartford, CT) – Today, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) issued a statement honoring the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which upheld a woman’s right to safe and legal abortion. The decision was handed down on January 22, 1973.
“Forty-one years after Roe v. Wade, anti-choice extremists are still pushing unconscionable and unconstitutional state statutes that restrict a woman’s right to choose. We cannot allow such unconstitutional laws to stand between women and their doctors – preventing them from making personal decisions about their healthcare based on their own values and privacy rights. My hope is that Congress will pass The Women’s Health Protection Act – legislation I introduced, and sponsored by one-third of the Senate, that would invalidate regulations and laws intended to restrict a woman’s right to choose or access other reproductive health services. We must continue to do all that we can to make reproductive rights real.”