Protecting Reproductive Rights

As Republican-controlled states across the country restrict abortion access following the fall of Roe v. Wade, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) has cosponsored legislation to protect the right to travel for reproductive health care. Introduced by Representatives Lizzie Fletcher (D-Texas), the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act (H.R.… Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) issued this statement applauding President Joe Biden for taking action to protect abortion access nationwide in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling: “Since a radical, partisan Supreme Court took away 50 years of established legal precedent with the stroke of a pen, conservative… Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and fellow Democratic members of the House Appropriations Committee today countered attacks on reproductive health care from the Supreme Court and rightwing legislatures. In the fiscal year 2023 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, which passed the full House… Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) issued this statement following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling: “Today’s catastrophic ruling is the culmination of a decades-long effort by Republican extremists to install anti-choice justices on a High Court that routinely overrules Congress and the public’s will with… Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today signed on to the Healthcare Providers Safety Act to protect patients and abortion care providers who have faced heightened harassment and violence by anti-abortion extremists emboldened by the Supreme Court’s pending challenge to Roe v. Wade.  “Patients and providers entering reproductive health care centers should… Read more »

Ahead of today’s expected vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) in the Senate, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is sharing results from an abortion access survey of Mainers conducted in wake of the draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Of the 3,530 respondents, 82% (2,854 individuals) said they… Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) issued this statement following media reports of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling: “I share the feelings of outrage, fear, and utter shock that millions of women across the country are experiencing right now. If this draft Supreme Court opinion is genuine and Roe v. Wade is overturned, a deeply… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today voted with her Democratic U.S. House colleagues to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which would protect abortion access nationwide and finally codify the protections established by the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey decisions.  Passage of the WHPA comes just… Read more »

Legislation prohibits using federal subsidies to purchase private insurance the includes abortion coverage Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision to overturn a Texas law placing medically unnecessary regulations on abortion. The law would have slashed the number of clinics there, making it much more difficult for women to receive an abortion and other reproductive health services. “The intent of the Texas law was never about making… Read more »