Today would have marked the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. For decades, women across the country have relied on Roe’s constitutional protections to secure the right to make their own decisions about their health and their bodies.
But after the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision last summer, we must fight harder than ever against restrictive measures on women’s health care decisions.
My Democratic colleagues and I have been hard at work pursuing every possible avenue to protect reproductive freedom both at home in Washington state and across the country – from securing health care privacy and health data to protecting contraception access to defending health care providers from prosecution.
