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 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, sent to Department

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 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 Trump Administration further

The full press conference can be viewed here. Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) held a press conference to recommit to the fight for full access to women’s healthcare. This came three years to the day since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – which overturned Roe v Wade and decades of precedent – and decimated women’s access to healthcare across the United States. The full press conference can be viewed here and Senator Blunt Rochester’s full remarks, as delivered, are below: Thank you, Senator