{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-davids-joins-velshi-discuss-new-attacks-reproductive-health-care", "ICYMI: Davids Joins \u201cVelshi\u201d to Discuss New Attacks on Reproductive Health Care Medication in Kansas After Supreme Court Decision", "2024-06-17", "2024", "2024-06", "Democrat", "House", "KS", "Sharice Davids", "D000629", "davids.house.gov", "davids", "https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "This past weekend, Representative Sharice Davids appeared on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cVelshi\u201d to discuss the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision to preserve access to Mifepristone, a safe and effective form of medication abortion. She also expressed concern over Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach\u2019s continued legal attack on the medication, which was approved decades ago and is used in more than 60 countries to safely end a pregnancy.\n\nWATCH: Davids speaks on the Supreme Court\u2019s action to uphold reproductive health care for now and Kris Kobach\u2019s continued attack\n\nDuring the segment, Davids said, \u201cThe access has been protected for now, and seeing some of these extreme politicians and actors pushing these extreme policies is not just scary; it\u2019s dangerous. We have to make sure we\u2019re keeping our eye on the ball and not letting people like Kris Kobach, who, by the way, does not speak for the vast majority of Kansans, as we saw in August of 2022. The vast majority of Kansans do not want politicians interfering in our reproductive health care decisions.\u201d\n\nLast Thursday, the Supreme Court unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year. The justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the FDA's actions to ease access to the medication, leaving open the door for future legal challenges. Immediately following this decision, Kobach and attorneys general of two other Midwestern states immediately vowed to push forward their legal challenge of mifepristone.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:11:47Z"]], "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/icymi-davids-joins-velshi-discuss-new-attacks-reproductive-health-care"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6747820191085339, "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"}