{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mcbride.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mcbride-republican-agenda-not-pro-family", "Rep. McBride: \u201cThe Republican agenda is not pro-family\u201d", "2025-06-27", "2025", "2025-06", "Democrat", "House", "DE", "Sarah McBride", "M001238", "mcbride.house.gov", "mcbride", "https://mcbride.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 At Thursday\u2019s hearing hosted by the House Democratic Steering & Policy Committee, Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus, and Reproductive Freedom Caucus, Congresswoman Sarah McBride (D-DE) delivered forceful remarks condemning Republican-led attacks on reproductive freedom.\n\n\u201cLet\u2019s be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life. It\u2019s not pro-family. And it\u2019s certainly not pro-freedom.\u201d said Rep. McBride. \u201cBecause if it were, Republicans wouldn\u2019t be forcing women to flee their home states just to access basic reproductive care, or threatening IVF and contraception. And they certainly wouldn\u2019t be criminalizing doctors for saving lives.\n\nThe hearing, titled The Republican Attacks on Reproductive Freedom, spotlighted the real-life consequences of abortion bans, restrictions on fertility care, and the broader Republican agenda to roll back reproductive rights. Witnesses included Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson, maternal-fetal medicine specialist Dr. Cara Heuser, Tennessee State Senator London Lamar, and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Alderman and reproductive health advocate, Heather Martell.\n\nMcBride thanked Martell for sharing her personal story of being denied reproductive care in her home state, and drew attention to the economic and emotional burdens imposed on families:\n\n\u201cYou were denied life-saving abortion care in your home state when you were pregnant \u2014 you had to go to another state,\u201d said Rep. McBride. \u201cBut my understanding is that the challenges and the costs\u200b that you have faced in building a family through the years, they don\u2019t end there. That\u2019s not freedom. Having to leave your state to get care, having to pay large sums out of pocket. That\u2019s not freedom, that\u2019s not family values, that\u2019s cruelty, it\u2019s abandonment.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re told again and again that these policies are about protecting life, but if that were true, we would see investments in policies that actually help people live and start a family and raise kids,\u201d continued McBride. Instead, we see burdens, we see bans, we see barriers.\u201d\n\nMcBride also called out the Republican budget proposal, which she warned would further erode access to care by slashing Medicaid\u2014jeopardizing coverage for millions of Americans, including the 41% of births that are covered by Medicaid.\n\nRep. McBride is a co-sponsor of legislation to enshrine reproductive freedom into law, including the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act, the Access to Reproductive Care for Servicemembers Act, and the My Body, My Data Act. In the Delaware General Assembly, she led efforts to protect access to abortion, making Delaware a national model for reproductive rights.\n\nMcBride\u2019s full remarks are available for use here.\n\n###", 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://mcbride.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mcbride-republican-agenda-not-pro-family"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8171431254595518, "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"}