Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after the Supreme Court released its decision in Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.

“Every American deserves access to high quality, non-judgmental reproductive health care at the place of their choosing.  Today’s Supreme Court decision is extremely disappointing, because we know the real-life impacts on patients from political decisions like the one at issue in this case.  In Texas, we have already seen the devastating effects of eliminating Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program: a failure to replace the care that Planned Parenthood provided, a decrease in access to birth control, and a decline in public health.  I will continue to do everything I can do to support the right to, and access to, reproductive health care as well as the freedom, equality, and dignity of all Americans.”

Congresswoman Fletcher is Vice Chair and Whip of the Reproductive Freedom Caucus.  She is the lead sponsor of the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, which passed the House in 2022, and which she reintroduced this year. 

Last Congress, in response to a lawsuit seeking to ban medication abortion 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.