Dallas City Wire

WASHINGTON – On April 19, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) joined leaders from the Pro-Choice Caucus (PCC) and the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC), and Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), for a press conference on Democrats’ continuing fight to protect access to medication abortion.

In advance of the Supreme Court’s deadline at midnight—when their stay in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA expires—the lawmakers made clear that regardless of what happens next, they will continue to fight to ensure access to medication abortion and restore the right to abortion across the country.

“In Texas, we’re no stranger to forum shopping by highly-partisan litigants – but this decision is uniquely dangerous. If allowed to stand, the consequences of banning this medication would be catastrophic for millions of American women and mothers. And the pain would fall most heavily on Black women, Brown women, and low-income women of all races who have the least access to affordable, accessible medical care,” said Rep. Crockett (TX-30). “We are not taking these attacks lying down - on Friday, I co-lead a resolution with Reps. Angie Craig and Josh Gottheimer that would protect doctor-prescribed access to the abortion pill mifepristone and support telemedicine across state lines, so doctors can prescribe the abortion medication wherever women are in need of health care. If the politicians passing these restrictive abortion laws in the dead of night thought they could beat us down and take what we’ve fought and died for, they’re sorely mistaken.”

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett represents portions of Dallas and Tarrant Counties, with the cities of Dallas, Grand Prairie, DeSoto, Cedar Hill, Lancaster, Duncanville, Glenn Heights, Hutchins, Wilmer, Arlington, Ovilla, and Seagoville.

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