Supporting Abortion Rights

Elizabeth Warren supports abortion rights and opposes any Supreme Court nominees who "oppose legal abortion". Warren says we must build a future that protects the right of all women to have children, the right of all women to not have children and the right to bring children up in a safe environment Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren has rolled out a new policy proposal to shore up protections on the federal level for abortion. Warren wants Congress to codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law, prevent states from placing new restrictions on clinics and bolstering private and public insurance coverage for abortion. She would also push for the repeal of the Hyde amendment, a long-time prohibition on federal funding for abortion. Repealing the Hyde amendment, meanwhile, would allow people covered by Medicaid, the VA, the Indian Health Service or federal employee plans to have abortions covered. In 2018, Republicans in the Senate proposed a bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks. Warren, a fierce advocate for women's reproductive rights, took to the Senate floor and delivered an impassioned address in opposition to the bill. She said forty-five years after Roe v. Wade, abortions are safe today and a lot of women are alive today because of Roe. Warren then called the bill “part of a broad and sustained assault by Republican politicians on women’s rights to make decisions about their own bodies.” In 2017 she also defended Planned Parenthood in a similar speech. Warren reported that she is sick of coming down to the Senate floor to explain to Republicans what Planned Parenthood does. She is sick of explaining that it provides millions of women with birth control, cancer screenings, and STI tests every year. She is sick of pointing out, again and again, that federal dollars do not fund abortion services at Planned Parenthood or anywhere else. Elizabeth Warren is a supporter of the Me Too movement and has called on Congress to pass laws to support survivors. Warren's plan would guarantee abortion access to the tens of millions of women in the 18 states that would ban abortion if Roe v. Wade is struck down by the Supreme Court.
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