As long as these attacks continue, I will stand against efforts to weaken or subvert access to safe abortion and vital family planning services for women everywhere.
Stand against efforts to weaken or subvert access to safe abortion and family planning services.
Occurrences
As long as these attacks continue, I will stand against efforts to weaken or subvert access to safe abortion and vital family planning services for women everywhere.
Evidence
DelBene says, "As long as these attacks continue, I will continue to stand against efforts to weaken or subvert access to safe abortions and vital family planning services for women everywhere."
On passage of H.R. 21, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, DelBene voted Nay. The measure passed the House, but her recorded vote was against it.
The bill is titled the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025 and its purpose is "To protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services." The bill text lists Suzan K. DelBene as a cosponsor.
The bill text says it is "To prohibit the interference, under color of State law, with the provision of interstate abortion services, and for other purposes." The cosponsor list includes Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1] as an original cosponsor.
On passage of H.R. 8296, the Women’s Health Protection Act, DelBene voted Yea. The House passed the bill, and her vote supported federal abortion access protections.
DelBene highlighted efforts in Congress to prevent federal funds from going to crisis pregnancy centers and said, "As anti-abortion activists continue their ongoing, multi-front campaign against Americans’ reproductive health care, it is more important than ever that we stand up for women's rights."
Assessments
DelBene fulfilled the promise in the federal House context by repeatedly taking concrete pro-abortion-access and family-planning-aligned actions while in office: voting for the Women’s Health Protection Act in 2022, voting against H.R. 21 in 2025, cosponsoring 2025 abortion-access protection bills, and publicly opposing efforts to restrict reproductive health care. The promise is framed as an ongoing commitment to stand against weakening access, not as a guarantee that federal protections would become law, so her votes, cosponsorships, and public advocacy satisfy the promised action during the same term context.
DelBene fulfilled this ongoing-position promise through multiple concrete same-term actions: voting against anti-abortion legislation, cosponsoring federal bills to protect abortion access and interstate abortion care, and publicly opposing anti-abortion and anti-family-planning efforts. Because the promise was to stand against efforts to weaken access, not necessarily to enact a final statutory result, these actions satisfy the promised outcome.