{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-welcomes-vice-president-harris-new-mexico-calls-action-codify", "Rep. Stansbury Welcomes Vice President Harris to New Mexico, Calls for Action to Codify Abortion Rights Into Law Nationwide", "2022-10-25", "2022", "2022-10", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Melanie A. Stansbury", "S001218", "stansbury.house.gov", "stansbury", "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) joined Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to welcome Vice President Kamala Harris to New Mexico. Ahead of Vice President Harris\u2019 discussion on reproductive rights with the governor, Rep. Stansbury echoed their call for immediate action to codify the right to an abortion into law nationwide.\n\nRep. Stansbury addressed an audience of reproductive health advocates, health care providers, and New Mexico state legislators alongside Senator Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (N.M.), Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller,University of New Mexico President Garnett Stokes, and HHS Regional Director SimaLadjevardianas she discussed the challenges facing abortion providers in New Mexico, the work of the Biden-Harris administration, and the fight to defend reproductive health care.\n\n\u201cNew Mexico is leading the way to protect reproductive rights, and that is why Vice President Harris is here. I am proud to stand alongside Vice President Harris, Governor Lujan Grisham, Senator Luj\u00e1n, Mayor Keller, and local leaders to fight for our right to reproductive healthcare and abortion access,\u201dsaid Rep. Stansbury. \u201cNew Mexico\u2019s action to protect safe and legal abortion offers a clear path forward for the rest of the nation. And, we are only leading the nation because of the countless advocates and health care workers, who have fought for decades to protect reproductive care. Today, I\u2019m standing with our communities and our leadership to call for immediate action at a national level to defend our fundamental right to choice and ensure that essential reproductive healthcare services are available to every community.\u201d\n\nIn Congress, Rep. Stansbury voted to pass the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act out of the U.S. House of Representatives, which would establish a federal statutory right for abortion into law. Rep. Stansbury also voted to pass the Right to Contraception Act and the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act out of the House of Representatives to protect access to contraception and the right to travel to receive abortion care.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:34:28Z"]], "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://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-welcomes-vice-president-harris-new-mexico-calls-action-codify"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9021931327879429, "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"}