[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3170-S3171]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



              Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, with their dreadful, horrific Dobbs 
decision 4 years ago today, six far-right wing MAGA Justices broke 
nearly 50 years of precedent to rip the right to choose away from 
millions--millions--of American women.
  You can sum up both the dreadful Dobbs decision and the whole far-
right philosophy the same way: less freedom in your life; more 
government interference in your personal decisions. That is the MAGA 
way.
  Dobbs will go down as one of the most damaging, legally dubious, and 
deeply out-of-touch Supreme Court decisions in American history. It is 
a disgrace that the Supreme Court did it. It is a disgrace on the 
Supreme Court itself.
  Trump may not like talking about his crusade against women's 
reproductive rights, but he cannot hide from the pain he has inflicted 
on women across America. Mr. President, 20 States--20--have enacted 
total or near-total abortion bans, which means that nearly 40 percent 
of women of reproductive age live in a State with an abortion ban.
  The human cost of the Republican assault on women's reproductive 
freedom is sickening. I have heard so many women share their stories of 
the horrors they have experienced in Trump's post-Roe America.
  Republicans are letting women die by restricting necessary care. Some 
women have to travel hundreds of miles--even thousands--to get the 
treatment they need and deserve and are entitled to. Parents, patients, 
and doctors have been punished like violent criminals for lifesaving 
procedures that were legal just a few years ago and had been for 
decades before that.
  The GOP is treating mifepristone like it is poison and Planned 
Parenthood like it is an enemy of the State. It is despicable.
  Even before the Justices behind Dobbs were confirmed, anyone could 
see they wanted to overturn Roe. Every Republican Senator, who voted to 
confirm these radical Justices who stripped away these fundamental 
rights to choose that women have had for so long, will have to answer 
to the American people.

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  We will not--we Democrats--will not let Republicans brush their 
radical efforts to ban abortion under the rug. The American people know 
it, and we are going to keep showing the difference between the two 
parties on this issue when the American people are strongly on our 
side.