Two Democrats joined with Republicans in calling on the Supreme Court to consider overturning Roe v. Wade
Two Democrats are facing backlash after joining more than 200 Republican Congress members on Thursday in calling on the Supreme Court to consider overturningThe message from lawmakers came in an amicus brief in the case of, which questions the constitutionality of a Louisiana state law requiring doctors performing abortions to have admission privileges at a nearby state-authorized hospital.
"I'm proud to have a 100 percent pro-choice voting record and I'm deeply alarmed by the rapidly escalating attacks on women's access to reproductive care in several states," Bustos said at the time in a statement published by Politico. Therefore, she said:"I've determined that I must cancel my participation in this event."
Under the Obama government, Lipinski was the only Illinois Democratic Congress member to oppose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, despite having voted in favor of a previous version that had included more severe restrictions on abortion funding. "How can it be that after all the testimony, every Democrat thinks the president has committed an impeachable offense and every Republican thinks he has not?" he questioned.
"There should be no room for anti-women's rights radicals in the Democratic Party," he said in a tweet.
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