Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Supreme Court Decision Further Endangering Women’s Healthcare

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor to condemn Supreme Court’s latest decision threatening funding for Planned Parenthood and endangering access to essential women’s healthcare across the country. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Three years after Dobbs, the MAGA Supreme Court has once again doubled down on its war on women.

The Court handed down a decision that endangers funding for Planned Parenthood, one of the biggest organizations for affordable women’s healthcare across the whole country.

And this is not just about reproductive care: it endangers women’s healthcare altogether.

Clinics will close. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, contraceptives, physical exams for common illnesses, and so much more. For many women, Planned Parenthood is their only resource to get healthcare services at an affordable rate.

Make no mistake, Senate Republicans own the consequences of this loathsome decision. They packed our courts with extremists and they’re the chief architects of the dismal state of women’s healthcare in America.

Senate Democrats will never relent in our efforts to ensure all women in America have high quality healthcare.

Access to healthcare is a basic right, no matter what the radicals on the MAGA court think.

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