Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Whip of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, and other Pro-Choice Caucus leaders met with Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss ways to preserve, protect, and restore reproductive rights across the U.S.  The meeting comes as measures in state legislatures and legal challenges across the country are enacting barriers to access abortion and contraception. 

“I was honored to join Vice President Harris at the White House with my colleagues in the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus to discuss ways to address barriers to reproductive rights,” said Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher.  “As a representative from Texas, where access to abortion has been effectively eliminated, I understand the very real dangers women and families are facing as a result of these measures to ban reproductive care.  I appreciated the opportunity to share my perspective with Vice President Harris and I look forward to continuing to work with the administration to protect the health, dignity, and liberty of women and families across our country, and I thank her for her leadership.”

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher is a leader in the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus and has led several efforts to protect access to abortion.  After a Texas Judge banned abortion medication across the country, she introduced the Protecting Reproductive Freedom Act, H.R. 2573, with Congressman Pat Ryan (NY-18) to reaffirm that the abortion pill was appropriately approved by the FDA. 

She is the lead House sponsor of a bill to protect the right to travel between states to obtain an abortion, the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, H.R. 782, which passed the House in the last Congress, and which she reintroduced this year.  She has also introduced legislation challenging the bounty system created in Texas Senate Bill 8.  Congresswoman Fletcher was an original cosponsor of the Women’s Health Protection Act, H.R. 12, which establishes a statutory federal right to abortion free from medically unnecessary restrictions.