In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade Illinois Senator Dick Durbin called on his fellow Senate Democrats to take action.
Durbin highlighted recent cases that have made headlines, including that of a woman who chose to terminate a pregnancy so she could receive chemotherapy for cancer, reading from a recent New York Times article.
"If the life of a fetus is paramount, a pregnancy can mean a woman cannot get effective treatment for her cancer. One in a thousand women who gets pregnant each year is diagnosed with cancer, meaning thousands of women are facing a serious and possibly fatal disease while they are expecting a baby," he read.
Durbin urged his colleagues to take action on legislation that would increase funding for reproductive health and preserve the right to travel across state lines to have an abortion.
