**Last week, Kuster voted for two bills to protect and reaffirm a woman’s freedom to access abortion**

**The full Committee hearing is available HERE, Kuster’s full remarks are available HERE**

Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, questioned reproductive health experts about the consequences of the Supreme Court overturning the near 50-year precedent of Roe v. Wade and new state laws restricting abortion access that punish patients who seek as well as doctors who provide abortion care. During the hearing entitled, “Roe Reversal: The Impacts of Taking Away the Constitutional Right to an Abortion,” Kuster urged her colleagues to establish the right to abortion access and protect personal privacy through federal law.

“Millions of women are facing a harsh reality in the post-Roe world — a reality where they are turned away from hospitals in times of need and doctors are unable to respond to patient’s intense pain or risk of infection because of unnecessary government interference in medical care,” said Rep. Kuster. “As an adoption attorney for more than 25 years, I worked with hundreds of women making the most personal and private decisions of their lives, and not one of these women looked to the government to make that decision for them. That’s why I am working every day to establish the right to abortion for every American, regardless of where they live.”

Rep. Annie Kuster is a fierce advocate for abortion access and reproductive freedom. She was an original co-sponsor of the Women’s Health Protection Act, which passed earlier this Congress, and has been an outspoken opponent of Republican efforts to control women’s bodies, restrict abortion access, and insert the government into people’s personal private medical decisions. Congresswoman Kuster also co-sponsored and helped to pass the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, legislation to prevent Republicans from criminalizing, fining, or suing women who travel across state lines to obtain an abortion, which now heads to the Senate for consideration.

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