Representative Adriano Espaillat Decries Supreme Court Draft Opinion Overturning Roe V. Wade. NEW YORK, NY – In the wake of last night’s breaking news that a draft majority opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito would overturn Roe v. Wade, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) issued the following statement:
“I want every New Yorker–and American around the country–to know that this morning, abortion remains a constitutional right, and is still the law of the land,” said Rep. Espaillat. “Let me be clear: seeking abortion care should not be criminalized. Reproductive health care should be determined by the person seeking care and their trusted health care provider–not legislators, not presidents, and especially not a radical right-wing Supreme Court hellbent on upending judicial precedent and the rights of childbearing individuals. Any threat on abortion rights is an attack on those most impacted by the decision—people of color, LGBTQ people, people with low incomes, and those in rural communities.
“Decades of attacks have left abortion rights hanging by a thread in the United States, and Mitch McConnell’s packed Supreme Court has signaled to the American people—and the world—that it is willing to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past fifty years,” Espaillat continued. “This draft opinion is a moral outrage and an awe-inducing example judicial malpractice. This Congress must send legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade to the President’s desk—with the House taking this first step already, the ball is in the Senate’s court to act.
“And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, we need to abolish the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes – because the weight of history will be watching,” Espaillat concluded. Representative Espaillat is the first Dominican American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and his congressional district includes Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill and the north-west Bronx. First elected to Congress in 2016, Representative Espaillat is serving his third term in Congress. Representative Espaillat currently serves as a member of the influential U.S. House Committee on Appropriations responsible for funding the federal government’s vital activities. He is also a member of the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), where he serves in a leadership role as the Second Vice Chair and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, where he serves as Deputy Whip. Representative Espaillat also currently serves as a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus. To find out more about Rep. Espaillat, visit online at https://espaillat.house.gov/. | 
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