Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement on the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

“Today, on the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Texas women and families are in crisis as our state’s abortion ban has created devastating consequences for their health and freedom,” said Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher.  “I am thinking of the Texas women who filed Roe v. Wade and took it all the way to the Supreme Court, and of the Texas women who are leading the effort to restore reproductive freedom today by sharing their stories with all Americans about the cruelty and consequences of the laws in effect after Dobbs, in Texas and elsewhere.  As a Texas woman in Congress, I will continue to fight to protect the health, dignity, and freedom of women and families across our country and to restore the framework of Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in all 50 states.”

Congresswoman Fletcher is a leader in the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus and has led several efforts to protect access to abortion. 

Last week, she participated in a roundtable discussion with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to discuss ways to restore and protect reproductive health care. 

In response to a lawsuit seeking to ban medication abortion across the country, Congresswoman Fletcher 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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  Last year, she met with Vice President Harris and Pro-Choice Caucus leaders to discuss ways to preserve, protect, and restore reproductive rights across the U.S.   

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 is 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.