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It has been 100 days since the Republican-appointed Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively ending 50 years of reproductive freedom as we knew it. Since then, countless horror stories have surfaced: a 10-year-old rape victim forced to flee her state to get health care, women who experience miscarriages and people with auto-immune diseases unable to access vital medication, women told they’d have to give birth to a non-viable fetus, and more.
Despite the cruel stories and the widespread backlash at the ballot box, House Republicans and Ken Calvert have doubled down on their war on women with continued promises to pass a nationwide abortion ban.
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Ken Calvert signed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn Roe while the rest stood by.
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Ken Calvert voted against the Right to Contraception Act, to enshrine women’s and families’ right to access contraception into federal law.
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Ken Calvert voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would codify Roe to protect a woman’s right to abortion.
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Ken Calvert voted against the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act, which would safeguard a woman’s right to travel to another state to receive an abortion if their state bans the medical procedure. This bill would stop states from putting a bounty on the heads of women, families and doctors who assist in obtaining an abortion.
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Calvert voted against barring child rapists from being able to sue doctors who provided abortion care to a child incest victim.
DCCC spokesperson Maddy Mundy:
“Millions of women have gone 100 days without the freedom they once had and Republicans like Ken Calvert want to ban abortion nationwide. California voters will reject Calvert and his toxic agenda in November, because they want their freedoms restored, not taken away further by extreme Republicans.”
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