Reproductive Rights
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez proudly co-sponsored and voted for the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which passed out of the House in July 2022. This bill would reject the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe and codify abortion rights into federal law. As a member of the Pro-Choice Caucus, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez also supports repealing the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funds from being used to cover abortion care and, in so doing, denies healthcare to millions of low-income families. For more on the Congresswoman’s work on this issue, please read on below.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said that men needed to advocate for women in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
In an interview with GQ published online Wednesday, the progressive firebrand said that it takes groups that aren’t affected by an issue to speak up for those who are often marginalized.
“But we know that when white folks take up space and say the right thing in rooms of other white people, that is the most shifting activity that can happen, more sometimes than any protest or any person writing a letter to the editor or anything like that. And we need men to be speaking up in that way as well,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“But I think men, sometimes they think, I’m not a woman. This doesn’t affect me the most.”
Her comments were part of a sweeping feature in GQ, highlighting her ascension as a leading progressive on Congress, her struggles with both parties and the recent overturning of Roe.
Ocasio-Cortez said that men are also adversely impacted by the patriarchy, adding that they, too, benefit from the advancement of women’s rights, like the right to abortion.
“For almost every woman that has gotten an abortion, there’s a man who has either been affected or liberated by that abortion too,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
She also cited higher completed suicide rates and lower counts of doctor visits among men, underscoring a societal “stigma around men being vulnerable” that she asserted holds both men and women back.
“In this moment it’s really only going to be the vulnerability of men, and men talking to other men, that gives us the greatest hope of shifting things the fastest, soonest,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
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The second-term congresswoman, who rocketed to political stardom when she ousted incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in the state’s 2018 Democratic primary, also responded to a question about running for president.
Her experience as a congresswoman, she told GQ, showed her “how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women” and women of color in particular.
“People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September. … And it’s not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center. This grip of patriarchy affects all of us, not just women; men, as I mentioned before, but also, ideologically, there’s an extraordinary lack of self-awareness in so many places.”
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Multiple Democratic lawmakers were arrested at an abortion rights rally near the Capitol on Tuesday, less than one month after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that reversed Roe v. Wade.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday called on President Biden to create abortion clinics on federal land, following the landmark Supreme Court ruling which overturned Roe v. Wade and removed federal abortion protections....
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is advocating impeachment for Supreme Court justices who she says lied during their confirmation hearings when they assured senators that Roe v Wade was established precedent.
- Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on Friday called on President Biden to create abortion clinics on federal land.
- She spoke to a group of protestors in New York who had gathered to protest the overturning of Roe v.
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Leading progressives Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for urgent action by Democrats in Congress to defend federal abortion rights after a leaked Supreme Court memo suggested that justices were on the verge of overturning the landmark Roe v.
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Dozens of Democrat lawmakers are demanding that Google stop unnecessarily collecting and retaining users' location data out of concern that "far-right extremists" could use the data to go after those who've had abortions.
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus’ Abortion Rights and Access Taskforce, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14), Congressman Ami Bera, M.D.
Washington (CNN) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday slammed Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's "deep ignorance" on abortion after he defended the state's new six-week abortion ban earlier in the day.