Reproductive Choice
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Legislation | Documents/Reports | Press Releases
In the 40 years since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which guarantees constitutional protection of a woman’s decision whether to terminate her pregnancy, over 1,000 separate legislative proposals have been introduced affecting abortion policy. The vast majority of these proposals have sought to restrict the availability of abortions, and this same trend can be seen in the Republican House majority. There is a war on women underway and in the last Congress alone, ten votes were taken to roll back on the protections of Roe, as well as numerous votes to curtail family planning funding and even allow hospitals to deny women lifesaving emergency medical care.
I strongly believe in preserving a woman’s right to choose and I am an outspoken supporter of women’s reproductive rights. However, choice is meaningless without access which is why I have been monitoring the efforts of the anti-choice establishment to devalue a woman’s right to choose and have been actively working against any legislative limits to access.
Legislation
05/16/2013 - H.R. 2030, Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act [113th Congress]
02/14/2013 - H.R. 728, Access to Birth Control Act [113th Congress]
07/26/2011 - H.R. 2659, Access to Birth Control Act [112th Congress]
07/14/2011 - H.R. 2543, Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act [112th Congress]
06/06/07 - H.R.2596, Access to Birth Control (ABC) Act [110th Congress]
03/30/06 - H.R. 5052, Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services (SDAWS) Act [109th Congress]
11/03/05 - H.R.4229, Plan B for Plan B Act of 2005 [109th Congress]
04/14/05 - H.R.1652, Access to Legal Pharmaceuticals Act [109th Congress]
03/10/05 - H.R.1214, Best Help For Rape Victims Act [109th Congress]
07/13/04 - H.AMDT.690, Maloney Amendment on FDA Sound Science [108th Congress]
05/17/04 - H.R.4377, Science Over Politics Act [108th Congress]
Documents
05/26/11 - The 2011 Congressional Republican Majority Attacks on Women
06/22/06 - Follow-up to Response Letter from the Administration
05/25/06 - Response Letter from the Administration
05/16/06 - Fifth Letter to President Bush on Birth Control
12/13/05 - Fouth letter to Bush on Birth Control
11/01/05 - GAO report on FDA’s decision against Plan B Over-the-Counter
10/24/05 - Third Letter to President Bush on Birth Control
08/01/05 - Second Letter to President Bush on Birth Control
07/12/05 - First Letter to President Bush
03/30/05 - Letter to Gonzales on public meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Violence against Women.
01/13/05 - Letter to Justice on Plan B for Rape Victems
04/27/04 - Letter to Bush on Hughes Comments
01/30/04 - Letter to FDA on Plan B Over-the-Counter
More on Reproductive Choice
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY-12) released the following statement regarding the decision by Google and Yahoo to remove deceptive crisis pregnancy center online advertisements.
“Google and Yahoo understand that women should not be deliberately deceived when seeking legitimate medical services. I commend these companies for taking action to remove misleading advertisements from their search engines.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s hearing of oral arguments on Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius.
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY-12) delivered the following remarks from the floor of the House on H.R. 7, the misnamed “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.”
“For years the other side of the aisle has been trying to get between a woman and her doctor. Now they're trying to come between a woman and her insurance company. They want to open a new front on the war on women and this one cruelly focuses on poor women."
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY-12) today delivered the following remarks at a press conference in opposition to H.R. 7.
“Once again Republicans are putting politics over women’s medical health. First they tried to put the government between a woman and her doctor, and now they’re trying to put the government between a woman and the health insurance she buys with her own money."
Washington, D.C. – Today marks the 37th anniversary of the passage of the Hyde Amendment, which withholds coverage for abortion services from women insured through Medicaid by restricting the use of federal funds for such use.