VIDEO: Baldwin Talks About Wisconsin Women Living Under 1849 Abortion Ban, Announces Senate Action to Restore Reproductive Freedom

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Senate colleagues ahead of the anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped reproductive health care freedom from 22 million women and counting. Senator Baldwin highlighted Wisconsin’s 1849 criminal abortion ban, its impact on Wisconsin women, and her leadership to restore a woman’s right and freedom to control her own body.

The senators announced that in the days leading up to the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, they will be working to fast-track the following pieces of common-sense legislation to protect women’s fundamental rights:

• Right to Contraception Act, which would enshrine into law the right to use birth control, which is under threat after Justice Clarence Thomas suggested the Supreme Court should reconsider its ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut.
• Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act to ensure women can freely travel for health care after Republican state legislatures have banned, and threatened to ban, women’s fundamental right to travel out of state to receive health care, including abortion care.
• Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act to ensure doctors can continue to safely provide legal abortion care and protect health care providers from being held liable for providing services to patients from other states.
• Upholding Protections for Health and Online Location Data (UPHOLD) Privacy Act to protect people’s online health and location data so that it cannot be used against them, including to identify people seeking reproductive health care services.

Video can be downloaded here.

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