Women's Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C. —On Thursday, July 2, Reps. Judy Chu (CA-28) and Kelly Morrison (MN-03), Reproductive Healthcare Task Force Co-Chairs, led 79 members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) and the Democratic Caucus in sending a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, demanding the immediate reversal of the administration’s cancellation of 53 active Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP) grants, totaling to $68 million in funding.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-28) released the following statement marking four years since the Supreme Court issued the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, which overturned the 50-year precedent in Roe v. Wade of a nationwide, constitutional right to abortion care.
"Four years ago today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped away a constitutional freedom that generations fought to secure. Today, I think about the women whose lives have been destroyed because of the consequences.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to Louisiana’s indictment of a California doctor for providing abortion medication and its attempt to force extradition across state lines, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, ProPublica published a devastating investigation revealing how Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother from San Antonio, died after being repeatedly denied medical care under Texas’s extreme abortion ban.
In response, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28), author of the Women’s Health Protection Act, issued the following statement:
PASADENA, CA – Today, Reps. Judy Chu (CA-28), Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Dina Titus (NV-01), and Sharice Davids (KS-03) led 100 of their Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to a heartbreaking report from Atlanta’s 11Alive News, which revealed that Georgia’s extreme abortion law has denied a brain-dead woman’s family the right to remove her from life support because she was pregnant at the time of her tragic brain death.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) joined Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-16), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare, Rep. Danny Davis (IL-07), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare, and Rep. Rudy Yakym (IN-02) today to introduce a resolution to designate the week of April 21 through April 25, 2025, as National Home Visiting Week.
Members express outrage at Trump administration claims that Title X is frozen because it is DEI, stating “A federal program’s ability to provide care to people from historically marginalized and underserved communities does not make it wrong or illegal”
WASHINGTON, DC — Responding to reporting today in the Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars in Title X federal family-planning grants, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28), Chair of the Reproductive Freedom Caucus’s Contraception, Family Planning, and Education Task Force, released the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025, on a vote of 281-140.
Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) voted in opposition to the final version of the NDAA today and issued the following statement: