EMILYs List Statement On Supreme Court Hearing Case Challenging Roe v. Wade
For Immediate Release
May 17, 2021
EMILYs List Statement On Supreme Court Hearing Case Challenging Roe v. Wade
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a major abortion case from Mississippi that will give the court an opportunity to reconsider Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, questions the constitutionality of Mississippi’s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Emily Cain, executive director of EMILYs List, issued the following statement:
“There is no disagreement: the lower courts have all ruled that Mississippi’s dangerous restrictions on abortion are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court’s decision to hear this case is an opportunity for anti-choice extremists to undermine decades of legal precedent and overturn Roe v. Wade, putting 25 million people at risk for losing abortion access.
Protecting access to safe reproductive care must begin at the state and local level and continue at the federal level. New state abortion bans passed by state legislatures and signed by anti-choice governors, and Supreme Court justices confirmed by a Republican Senate, remind us how much our elected officials matter. It is vital we continue to work to elect more Democratic pro-choice women to every level of government.”
EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect Democratic pro-choice women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 157 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices. In our effort to elect more women in offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program, including a Training Center online, and trained thousands of women.
