{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mcbath.house.gov/press-releases?ID=3CAF7930-0A63-4390-AF41-3CAAD9173885", "McBath Votes to Defend Reproductive Health Care Rights Against Dangerous Assaults", "2021-09-24", "2021", "2021-09", "Democrat", "House", "GA", "Lucy McBath", "M001208", "mcbath.house.gov", "mcbath", "https://mcbath.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 Today, Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Marietta) voted to defend women\u2019s right to reproductive health care with H.R. 3755, the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act. Amid attempts to strip away basic health freedoms for millions of Americans, this landmark legislation protects against assaults on reproductive care and enshrines into law the vital protections of Roe v. Wade. Her remarks from the House floor can be found here.\n\n\u201cGenerations of women fought for the freedom to make our own decisions about our bodies, and we cannot allow their work to be undone,\u201d said McBath. \u201cFor decades, women have fought for a seat in the university classroom, a seat in the boardroom, and a seat in our government. Now, in the face of extraordinary assaults on a woman\u2019s right to reproductive health care and bodily autonomy, I am proud to fight for legislation that secures basic health freedoms for women across America.\u201d\n\nFor years, state legislatures have waged an all-out assault on women\u2019s reproductive rights. 2021 is on track to be the worst legislative year for women\u2019s health rights ever, with 90 measures restricting reproductive rights enacted since July \u2013 more than in any year since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. On May 19th, Texas enacted SB 8, which is now the most extreme abortion law in effect in the United States. This legislation outlaws nearly all abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for rape and incest, while also creating a bounty system that deputizes private citizens to sue health care providers or anyone else they believe has helped a woman get an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.\n\nThe Supreme Court has voted to permit this law to go into effect, despite its flagrant violation of the Constitution, by effectively denying Texas women the ability to exercise their constitutional rights guaranteed by Roe. The Supreme Court could take further action to gut Roe\u2019s essential protections when it considers Mississippi\u2019s 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization on December 1st.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:17:01Z"]], "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://mcbath.house.gov/press-releases?ID=3CAF7930-0A63-4390-AF41-3CAAD9173885"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.331901177763939, "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"}