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