Sean Casten: “This month marks the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. That decision, which recognized women's individual right to bodily…”

“This month marks the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. That decision, which recognized women's individual right to bodily autonomy, has now been supplanted by a Supreme Court that effectively said that the Federal Government isn't here to protect your individual rights because that is a States' rights issue now. House Republicans, having cheered injecting States' rights into your individual private lives would now like to bring the Federal Government into the conversation. If you don't believe me, Mr. Speaker, just look at what they are doing. They passed legislation this term that would create a Federal prohibition against women who are serving in our military from traveling to get an abortion if they are stationed in a State that doesn't respect their individual rights. They pushed legislation that would create a Federal prohibition on women from accessing medication abortion, even if that is legal in their State. Nonetheless, here is the simple truth: The Republican Party with a big assist from a misogynistic Supreme Court took rights away from 167 million American women, granted them to States, and are now trying to take those rights away and give them to the Federal Government. Here is the truth: Abortion has never been a States' rights issue, and it has never been a Federal rights issue. It has always been a women's rights issue, and I hope that some day that is not partisan. ____________________”