I will always fight to ensure women have control over their own bodies
Will always fight to ensure women have control over their own bodies.
Occurrences
Evidence
Ross says she has been fighting Republican attacks on women’s fundamental right to make decisions about their own bodies and will not stop until Roe v. Wade is codified and women have full access to reproductive care.
Ross voted to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act and the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act to protect abortion access and interstate travel for care.
The House passed H.R. 8296, the Women’s Health Protection Act, on passage by 219-210.
Ross helped reintroduce the Reproductive Data Privacy and Protection Act to stop law enforcement from using data to surveil or prosecute people seeking reproductive care.
Ross introduced the Right to FDA-Approved Medicines Act, which would protect access to medications including mifepristone from state restrictions.
Assessments
Ross promised to fight for bodily autonomy, not to single-handedly enact a specific federal abortion-rights guarantee. In federal office she voted for House-passed reproductive-rights legislation in July 2022, including the Women’s Health Protection Act and travel protections, and later sponsored or helped advance bills on reproductive data privacy and access to FDA-approved medication abortion. Because the promised action was advocacy/fighting and she took concrete official legislative actions during her House term, the promise is best counted as delivered in the same term, even though broader federal protections did not become law.
The promise is broad and advocacy-oriented: Ross said she would always fight for women to control their own bodies. The evidence shows repeated concrete actions consistent with that promise, including voting for abortion-rights and interstate-travel protections in 2022, supporting House passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act, and later introducing or reintroducing bills on FDA-approved medicines and reproductive data privacy. Because the promised outcome was to fight/advocate rather than single-handedly enact a nationwide law, these legislative votes and sponsorships satisfy the pledge, even though broader federal abortion protections did not become law.