{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/davids-responds-supreme-court-decision-undermining-womens-health-care-access", "Davids Responds to Supreme Court Decision Undermining Women\u2019s Health Care Access", "2025-06-26", "2025", "2025-06", "Democrat", "House", "KS", "Sharice Davids", "D000629", "davids.house.gov", "davids", "https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03) released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSAT) that allows states to block Medicaid patients from accessing health care services at Planned Parenthood:\n\n\u201cToday, the Supreme Court once again sided with politicians over patients \u2014 threatening access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other critical health care services through Planned Parenthood, which is sometimes the only place a woman can turn for this kind of care. A person\u2019s health care decisions should be between them and their doctor, not politicians or extreme judges. It\u2019s been almost three years since Kansans rejected these extremist attacks, but they\u2019re still happening across the country \u2014 and the consequences are real. I\u2019ll keep fighting to protect the personal freedoms Kansans voted to defend.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nIn the wake of the Dobbs decision, Kansas made national headlines as the first state to vote on abortion rights \u2014 resoundingly choosing to protect them. Yet, extreme politicians in Kansas have repeatedly tried to roll back access to reproductive health care. Just this year, Republican legislators introduced a near-total abortion ban and sought to criminalize abortion providers. The Kansas House even overrode Governor Laura Kelly\u2019s veto of a bill that imposes new, unnecessary barriers for women seeking care.\n\nAlso, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are currently pushing a budget that cuts Medicaid and raises costs for families \u2014 while giving tax breaks to billionaires. It includes a provision that could further restrict abortion services, even in states like Kansas where it\u2019s currently legal. That means millions could lose access to affordable, comprehensive health care.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T01:08:28Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/davids-responds-supreme-court-decision-undermining-womens-health-care-access"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.630205661058426, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}