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Today, on the third anniversary of the Dobbs decision, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) alongside Reps. Judy Chu (CA-28), Lois Frankel (FL-22), and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) reintroduced the Women's Health Protection Act, a critical bill to restore the right to abortion nationwide and stop extremist abortion bans across the country.

“The Women’s Health Protection Act ensures women across this country have the freedom to make their own decisions about their bodies and futures. On behalf of countless women across the country who live the painful consequences of the Dobbs decision, including infertility or having to face the loss of their own lives resulting from lack of access to care, I again join my Democratic colleagues in declaring that abortion is healthcare and calling for the Women’s Health Protection Act to be brought to the House floor with the urgency this moment requires,” said Rep. Escobar. “Republicans think they know better than women and their doctors. They’re wrong.” 

In the three years since the Dobbs ruling overturned nearly 50 years of precedent under Roe v. Wade, millions of Americans were stripped of their constitutional right to abortion. Since then, draconian abortion bans have taken hold in 19 states across the country, endangering lives and giving politicians unprecedented power over personal medical decisions.

WHPA would enshrine the protections of Roe into federal law by creating a federal right to access abortion carefree from medically unnecessary state-based restrictions. WHPA has already passed the House twice when Democrats held the majority and remains the most widely supported abortion rights bill in Congressional history.