[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 88 (Tuesday, May 21, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                ABORTION

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, now, on abortion, shortly, I will join 
Senators Murray, Baldwin, Kelly, and some of the Nation's leading 
reproductive rights activists to highlight the terrible consequences of 
repealing the protections of Roe v. Wade.
  The MAGA Supreme Court repealed Roe nearly 2 years ago. It will go 
down as one of the worst--if not the worst--Supreme Court decisions of 
modern American history. In one fell swoop, MAGA radicals on the Court 
made it so that our children and grandchildren will sadly grow up with 
fewer civil liberties than those who came before them.
  Repealing Roe was tragic. It was alarming. It was outrageous, but it 
didn't happen in a vacuum. It happened because Senate Republicans 
packed our courts with hard-right judges, plucked right out of 
the Federalist Society checklist. It happened because Donald Trump 
appointed not one, not two, but three MAGA Justices, all who voted to 
overturn Roe. Remember what Donald Trump said a few weeks ago? He was 
``proud'' to be the person who paved the way to overturn Roe.

  And after Roe was eradicated, MAGA radicals opened the floodgates for 
draconian and cruel bans for women's choice across America. And we know 
this is just the beginning.
  Does anyone seriously doubt that should Trump become President again, 
he won't try to add even more extreme jurists to the bench so he can 
continue his assault on women's reproductive freedoms? Of course, he 
will. And the Republican Senators, if past is prologue, are likely, 
unfortunately, to go along. If Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans get 
into power, the hard right will not rest until a national abortion ban 
becomes the law of the land. Mark my words, that is the direction that 
they will take America in.
  House Republicans already included the national abortion ban in their 
recent Republican Study Committee budget. Remember, the Republican 
Study Committee includes a majority of House Republicans and their 
leadership.
  Roe may be gone, but, sadly, the hard right's obsession with 
eliminating reproductive rights is not. Make no mistake, Republicans 
will have to answer for their anti-abortion records today, tomorrow, 
and at the ballot box in November.

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