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Oct. 23, 2024
Durbin, Duckworth Join Congressional Democrats In Filing Amicus Brief Urging Ninth Circuit Court To Affirm That EMTALA Requires Hospitals To Provide Emergency Stabilizing Care, Including Abortion Care, Preempting Idaho's Draconian Abortion Ban
Sen. Dick Durbin
March 20, 2024
Durbin Delivers Opening Statement During a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Continued Assault on Reproductive Freedoms in Post-Dobbs America
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 22, 2023
Durbin: It's Now Up To Congress To Protect Women And Health Care Providers From The Results Of The Disastrous Dobbs Ruling
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Rep. Sean Casten
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Rep. Danny Davis
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Rep. Nikki Budzinski
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 2, 2023
Durbin Reflects On Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Devastating Fallout Since The Supreme Court Overruled Roe V. Wade
Sen. Dick Durbin
May 2, 2023
Durbin Reflects on Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Devastating Fallout Since the Supreme Court Overruled Roe V. Wade
Sen. Dick Durbin
April 26, 2023
DURBIN QUESTIONS WITNESSES DURING SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HEARING ON THE DEVASTATING FALLOUT SINCE THE SUPREME COURT OVERRULED ROE V. WADE
Sen. Dick Durbin
April 26, 2023
Durbin Delivers Opening Statement During Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Devastating Fallout Since The Supreme Court Overruled Roe V. Wade
Sen. Dick Durbin
April 21, 2023
Durbin Statement On Supreme Court's Decision To Preserve Access To The Abortion Pill Mifepristone
Sen. Dick Durbin
April 18, 2023
Durbin, Duckworth Join Democrats To File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court To Prevent Dangerous Ruling From Restricting Access To Mifepristone Nationwide & Upending FDA Approval Process
Sen. Dick Durbin
April 17, 2023
Durbin: Democrats Won't Rest Until We Restore Access To Women's Reproductive Health Care Nationwide
Sen. Dick Durbin
April 8, 2023
CNN Newsroom: Interview With Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Dick Durbin
March 27, 2023
Murray, Shaheen, 36 Colleagues Write to Pentagon Underscoring National Security Imperative to Provide Abortion Leave for Service Members
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
March 4, 2023
Durbin Statement On Walgreens' Decision To Not Offer Medication Abortion Pill
Sen. Dick Durbin
Nov. 1, 2022
Senator Smith, Colleagues Release New Report Detailing Devastating Harms Posed by State Abortion Bans
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Oct. 21, 2022
Letter to Mr. Richard C. Visek, Acting Legal Advisor for the US Department of State - Jacobs, Castro Lead Call for Biden Administration to Affirm Global Commitment to Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Rights Post-dobbs
Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
Oct. 11, 2022
Letter to Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Wicker, Hyde-smith, Colleagues Oppose Illegal Va Provided Abortions
Rep. Mary Miller, ...
Sept. 20, 2022
Letter to Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Bost Slams Biden Admin Over Decision to Offer Abortions Through Va
Rep. Mike Bost, ...
Sept. 16, 2022
Underwood Advocates for Access to Life-Saving Abortion Care for Veterans, Opposes Republicans' Extremist Agenda to Criminalize Abortion
Rep. Lauren Underwood
Sept. 7, 2022
Hirono, Warren, Murray, Duckworth Applaud Landmark Abortion Access Measure for Veterans Amid Republican Attacks
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Sept. 2, 2022
Bost Slams Biden Admin's Illegal Action to Provide Abortions Through Va
Rep. Mike Bost
Aug. 26, 2022
Robin Kelly and Kara Saffrin: Illinois is a safe haven for abortion care. We have to work to keep it that way.
Rep. Robin Kelly
Aug. 26, 2022
Robin Kelly and Kara Saffrin: Illinois is a safe haven for abortion care. We have to work to keep it that way.
Rep. Robin Kelly
Aug. 16, 2022
Letter to Social Media CEOs - Reps. Blunt Rochester & Kuster Call on Big Tech to Combat Abortion Misinformation
Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
July 28, 2022
Letter to Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Senator Baldwin, Colleagues Urge VA to Immediately Begin Offering Abortion Services to Veterans and Eligible Dependents
Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 27, 2022
Booker and Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Allow Use of U.S. Foreign Assistance for Abortion Care Overseas
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 19, 2022
Tweet - "It has not even been a month since the Dobbs decision and Republican officials are already finding ways to intimidate doctors who are trying to provide essential care to Americans. Tragically, but not surprisingly, overturning Roe has created a health care crisis in this country."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 18, 2022
Durbin: Overturning Roe Has Unleashed A Health Care Crisis In This Country
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 15, 2022
BOST VOTES AGAINST DEMOCRATS' ABORTION BILLS
Rep. Mike Bost
July 15, 2022
Letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Biden's Federal Departments Cannot Facilitate Abortions for Illegal Alien Minors
Rep. Mary Miller, ...
July 15, 2022
Bost Votes Against Democrats' Abortion Bills
Rep. Mike Bost
July 13, 2022
Tweet - "Women will die without Roe. Our health care system will be strained. We already have a heartbreakingly high maternal mortality rate--predicted to get worse with abortion bans. The cruelty of extreme anti-abortion lawmakers and judges puts the health & safety of Americans at risk."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 13, 2022
Letter to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Chuck Shumer, Majority Leader of the United States Senate - Titus Pushes for Emergency Title X Family Planning Program Funding
Rep. Bill Foster, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health & Human Services - Urging Biden Administration to Declare a National Public Health Emergency on Reproductive Rights
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Hon. Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, and Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House - Senator Baldwin Joins Colleagues in Calling for Robust Family Planning Funding as States Criminalize Abortion
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - U.S. Rep. John Rose Demands Biden Rescind Undemocratic and Unconstitutional Abortion Executive Order
Rep. Mary Miller, ...
July 12, 2022
Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Declaring a National Emergency on Abortion Access
Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
July 12, 2022
Lieutenant Governor Of Illinois Testifies On How The Dobbs Decision Is Already Harming Individual States
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Durbin Delivers Opening Statement At Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Legal Consequences Of The Dobbs Decision
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Durbin Questions Witnesses In Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Legal Consequences Of The Dobbs Decision
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Abortion Provider To Congress: The End Of Roe Is A Public Health Crisis
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Tweet - "We know the Republican plan: win control of Congress and impose a federal ban on abortion. Democrats have a different plan: protect your rights by enshrining into law a federal statutory right to an abortion. Politicians have no business making this decision."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Tweet - "Every American deserves to make their own decisions about when and how to start their family. But Republicans have decided they would rather put that control in the hands of politicians. Today's hearing is the first of many steps Democrats will take to fight back."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 7, 2022
Tweet - "I was at @KSBHospital to announce $334K in federal funding @SenDuckworth and I secured to renovate their labor delivery unit. Providing quality care to mothers is essential in the maternal mortality crisis, which has an even greater urgency after the overturning of Roe v. Wade."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 6, 2022
Letter to Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission - Protect Data Privacy of People Seeking Reproductive Health Care
Rep. Danny Davis, ...
June 24, 2022
Durbin Statement On Supreme Court Decision To Overturn Roe V. Wade
Sen. Dick Durbin
Date
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Politician
Oct. 23, 2024
Durbin, Duckworth Join Congressional Democrats In Filing Amicus Brief Urging Ninth Circuit Court To Affirm That EMTALA Requires Hospitals To Provide Emergency Stabilizing Care, Including Abortion Care, Preempting Idaho's Draconian Abortion Ban
Sen.Dick Durbin
March 20, 2024
Durbin Delivers Opening Statement During a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Continued Assault on Reproductive Freedoms in Post-Dobbs America
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 22, 2023
Durbin: It's Now Up To Congress To Protect Women And Health Care Providers From The Results Of The Disastrous Dobbs Ruling
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Rep.Sean Casten
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Rep.Danny Davis
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Rep.Nikki Budzinski
May 2, 2023
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF URGING FIFTH CIRCUIT TO REVERSE TEXAS DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MIFEPRISTONE
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 2, 2023
Durbin Reflects On Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Devastating Fallout Since The Supreme Court Overruled Roe V. Wade
Sen.Dick Durbin
May 2, 2023
Durbin Reflects on Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Devastating Fallout Since the Supreme Court Overruled Roe V. Wade
Sen.Dick Durbin
April 26, 2023
DURBIN QUESTIONS WITNESSES DURING SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HEARING ON THE DEVASTATING FALLOUT SINCE THE SUPREME COURT OVERRULED ROE V. WADE
Sen.Dick Durbin
April 26, 2023
Durbin Delivers Opening Statement During Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Devastating Fallout Since The Supreme Court Overruled Roe V. Wade
Sen.Dick Durbin
April 21, 2023
Durbin Statement On Supreme Court's Decision To Preserve Access To The Abortion Pill Mifepristone
Sen.Dick Durbin
April 18, 2023
Durbin, Duckworth Join Democrats To File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court To Prevent Dangerous Ruling From Restricting Access To Mifepristone Nationwide & Upending FDA Approval Process
Sen.Dick Durbin
April 17, 2023
Durbin: Democrats Won't Rest Until We Restore Access To Women's Reproductive Health Care Nationwide
Sen.Dick Durbin
April 8, 2023
CNN Newsroom: Interview With Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Sen.Dick Durbin
March 27, 2023
Murray, Shaheen, 36 Colleagues Write to Pentagon Underscoring National Security Imperative to Provide Abortion Leave for Service Members
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
March 4, 2023
Durbin Statement On Walgreens' Decision To Not Offer Medication Abortion Pill
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 1, 2022
Senator Smith, Colleagues Release New Report Detailing Devastating Harms Posed by State Abortion Bans
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Oct. 21, 2022
Letter to Mr. Richard C. Visek, Acting Legal Advisor for the US Department of State - Jacobs, Castro Lead Call for Biden Administration to Affirm Global Commitment to Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Rights Post-dobbs
Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
Oct. 11, 2022
Letter to Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Wicker, Hyde-smith, Colleagues Oppose Illegal Va Provided Abortions
Rep.Mary Miller, ...
Sept. 20, 2022
Letter to Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Bost Slams Biden Admin Over Decision to Offer Abortions Through Va
Rep.Mike Bost, ...
Sept. 16, 2022
Underwood Advocates for Access to Life-Saving Abortion Care for Veterans, Opposes Republicans' Extremist Agenda to Criminalize Abortion
Rep.Lauren Underwood
Sept. 7, 2022
Hirono, Warren, Murray, Duckworth Applaud Landmark Abortion Access Measure for Veterans Amid Republican Attacks
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Sept. 2, 2022
Bost Slams Biden Admin's Illegal Action to Provide Abortions Through Va
Rep.Mike Bost
Aug. 26, 2022
Robin Kelly and Kara Saffrin: Illinois is a safe haven for abortion care. We have to work to keep it that way.
Rep.Robin Kelly
Aug. 26, 2022
Robin Kelly and Kara Saffrin: Illinois is a safe haven for abortion care. We have to work to keep it that way.
Rep.Robin Kelly
Aug. 16, 2022
Letter to Social Media CEOs - Reps. Blunt Rochester & Kuster Call on Big Tech to Combat Abortion Misinformation
Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
July 28, 2022
Letter to Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Senator Baldwin, Colleagues Urge VA to Immediately Begin Offering Abortion Services to Veterans and Eligible Dependents
Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 27, 2022
Booker and Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Allow Use of U.S. Foreign Assistance for Abortion Care Overseas
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 19, 2022
Tweet - "It has not even been a month since the Dobbs decision and Republican officials are already finding ways to intimidate doctors who are trying to provide essential care to Americans. Tragically, but not surprisingly, overturning Roe has created a health care crisis in this country."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 18, 2022
Durbin: Overturning Roe Has Unleashed A Health Care Crisis In This Country
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 15, 2022
BOST VOTES AGAINST DEMOCRATS' ABORTION BILLS
Rep.Mike Bost
July 15, 2022
Letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Biden's Federal Departments Cannot Facilitate Abortions for Illegal Alien Minors
Rep.Mary Miller, ...
July 15, 2022
Bost Votes Against Democrats' Abortion Bills
Rep.Mike Bost
July 13, 2022
Tweet - "Women will die without Roe. Our health care system will be strained. We already have a heartbreakingly high maternal mortality rate--predicted to get worse with abortion bans. The cruelty of extreme anti-abortion lawmakers and judges puts the health & safety of Americans at risk."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 13, 2022
Letter to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Chuck Shumer, Majority Leader of the United States Senate - Titus Pushes for Emergency Title X Family Planning Program Funding
Rep.Bill Foster, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health & Human Services - Urging Biden Administration to Declare a National Public Health Emergency on Reproductive Rights
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Hon. Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, and Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House - Senator Baldwin Joins Colleagues in Calling for Robust Family Planning Funding as States Criminalize Abortion
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 13, 2022
Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - U.S. Rep. John Rose Demands Biden Rescind Undemocratic and Unconstitutional Abortion Executive Order
Rep.Mary Miller, ...
July 12, 2022
Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Declaring a National Emergency on Abortion Access
Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
July 12, 2022
Lieutenant Governor Of Illinois Testifies On How The Dobbs Decision Is Already Harming Individual States
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Durbin Delivers Opening Statement At Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Legal Consequences Of The Dobbs Decision
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Durbin Questions Witnesses In Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Legal Consequences Of The Dobbs Decision
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Abortion Provider To Congress: The End Of Roe Is A Public Health Crisis
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Tweet - "We know the Republican plan: win control of Congress and impose a federal ban on abortion. Democrats have a different plan: protect your rights by enshrining into law a federal statutory right to an abortion. Politicians have no business making this decision."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 12, 2022
Tweet - "Every American deserves to make their own decisions about when and how to start their family. But Republicans have decided they would rather put that control in the hands of politicians. Today's hearing is the first of many steps Democrats will take to fight back."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 7, 2022
Tweet - "I was at @KSBHospital to announce $334K in federal funding @SenDuckworth and I secured to renovate their labor delivery unit. Providing quality care to mothers is essential in the maternal mortality crisis, which has an even greater urgency after the overturning of Roe v. Wade."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 6, 2022
Letter to Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission - Protect Data Privacy of People Seeking Reproductive Health Care
Rep.Danny Davis, ...
June 24, 2022
Durbin Statement On Supreme Court Decision To Overturn Roe V. Wade
Sen.Dick Durbin
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