United States – More than two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the help of the so-called ‘Republican abortion bans,’ Sen Bernie Sanders (I-Vt. ) and Patty Murray (D-Wash. ) to conduct a hearing to look at the consequences of this move, as reported by The Hills.
Title and Purpose
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which Sanders chairs, will hold the hearing on June 4, titled “The Assault on Women’s Freedoms: This is how Abortion Bans Have Caused a Nightmare in the American Healthcare Sector.”
The list of witnesses for the hearing have yet to be released.
Senator’s Statement
“The anti-abortion movement has shown its cruelty and utter disregard for women’s lives again and again, and it is essential that we use every opportunity to continue to make clear exactly how extreme right-wing abortion bans and restrictions on reproductive health care have endangered women, hurt families, and rolled back rights,” Murray and Sanders added, as reported by The Hills.
It is noteworthy that the office of HELP committee ranking member Bill Cassidy (R-La. ) did not respond to certain questions when contacted for a comment on the hearing.