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November 19, 2025

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:

October 30, 2025

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.

May 16, 2025

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.

April 22, 2025

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.

April 3, 2025

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”

March 25, 2025

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: 

December 11, 2024

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:

August 7, 2024

Current law prevents Women’s History Museum & Museum of American Latino from placement on National Mall

July 3, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Judy Chu (CA-28) and Dan Goldman (NY-10) this week led 54 members of Congress in pressing Walmart, Safeway, Kroger, Costco, and Healthmart to undergo the certification process to dispense the medication abortion drug, Mifepristone.

June 27, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Supreme Court sent the consolidated cases Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States back to the lower courts without a decision on the merits of the case.