June 24, 2025 Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) held the Senate floor for one hour to raise awareness on the state of women’s reproductive rights post Dobbs v. Jackson, which overruled Roe v. Wade. She was joined by her Senate Democratic colleagues. To watch her remarks, click here or see a transcript below. Senator Blunt Rochester’s full opening and closing remarks can be found here. Senator Blunt Rochester’s opening remarks, as delivered Mr. President, there are moments in our lives when everything changes, when the world shifts underneath you and a new reality forms. These are moments when you remember exactly where you were, what

The Trump Administration’s rescission of EMTALA guidance that reaffirmed nationwide access to emergency abortion care puts patients’ lives in jeopardy and sows chaos for hospitals and providers across the country June 24, 2025 Washington, DC – Today, on the three-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), as well as seven of their colleagues, in a letter condemning the Trump Administration’s recent rescission of guidance that reaffirmed hospitals and providers’ obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to provide medically necessary emergency abortion care, regardless of where the patient lives. The letter,

Women’s Health Protection Act comes as Trump and Congressional Republicans move to restrict a woman’s right to choose and toward a national abortion ban June 24, 2025 Washington, DC – On the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), as well as the entire Senate Democratic caucus in introducing the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025, legislation to guarantee access to abortion everywhere across the country and restore the right to comprehensive reproductive health care for millions of Americans. The bill’s introduction comes as the