Sen. Coons Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision

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Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after the release of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, which appears to overturn the half-century-old Roe v. Wade precedent:

"Reversing Roe's long-settled protections is the shameful end result of a decades-long conservative campaign to construct a Supreme Court that would gut the right to choose. It's the definition of conservative judicial activism: overthrowing a 50 year-old settled legal precedent without regard and laying the groundwork for extremists to go after even more long-held fundamental rights.

"Today's decision puts at risk women's access to birth control and allow states to criminalize women seeking access to reproductive health care, even in cases of rape or incest. States are already following through on that; roughly half the states in our country will make all or nearly all abortions illegal, leading to gross inequalities in access.

"Every woman in America deserves the chance to make their own reproductive health care choices, and it's now more important than ever that we work to make sure women broadly have access to reproductive health care."

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