Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand rallied against Georgia’s restrictive new anti-abortion law on Thursday, calling it—and similar laws in Alabama, Ohio, and other states—part of “a nationwide assault on women’s constitutional rights by ideological extremists.”
”If our party cannot support women's basic human rights, their fundamental freedoms to make decisions about their bodies and their futures, then we are not the party of women,” Gillibrand told The Washington Post in an interview before her Georgia trip. “I will not compromise on women's reproductive freedom.”
In Georgia, Gillibrand called for the protections of Roe v. Wade to be written into federal law, saying that “Federal law should supersede harmful state laws that take away women’s reproductive freedom,” and she advocated the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which prevents the use of federal funds for health coverage that includes abortion. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Gillibrand’s competitor in the 2020 Democratic primary, has also called for similar changes to federal law.
Gillibrand further reiterated a pledge to nominate only Supreme Court justices who would vote to uphold Roe v. Wade.