Chellie is committed to protecting Roe v. Wade, an essential piece of Supreme Court precedent that has ensured access to safe abortions for more than forty years.
Protect Roe v. Wade and defend access to abortion and reproductive health care.
Occurrences
She's also fighting every attempt to roll back access to basic care, including making sure that women don’t have to pay out-of-pocket for birth control, preserving programs that help low-income Mainers afford preventive care like STD and cancer screenings, and resisting efforts defund Planned Parenthood.
Evidence
On the campaign site, Pingree says she is committed to protecting Roe v. Wade and fighting efforts to roll back access to abortion and basic care.
The House passed the rule for consideration of H.R. 3755, the Women's Health Protection Act, 217-207; Pingree voted Yea.
On passage of H.R. 3755, the Women's Health Protection Act, Pingree voted Nay?
The Senate cloture vote on the motion to proceed to WHPA was not invoked, 49-51, leaving the bill blocked in the Senate.
Pingree and 240 Members of Congress submitted an amicus brief supporting FDA-approved mifepristone access after the Kacsmaryk ruling.
Her office said she supported ending Hyde, boosting Title X, and protecting medication abortion in the FY2023 appropriations bill.
Assessments
The promised outcome was to protect Roe v. Wade and defend abortion/reproductive health access. Roe was overturned, and the major federal legislative vehicle to codify abortion protections, the Women's Health Protection Act, did not become law after Senate failure. Pingree took serious affirmative actions, including supporting House action on WHPA, appropriations efforts, and an amicus brief defending mifepristone access, but those efforts did not deliver the promised nationwide protection or restore Roe-level access.