Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., said that the Texas judge who ruled to suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s longtime approval of key abortion pill mifepristone "is not guided by science" and part of a Republican "effort to ban abortion nationwide" in an exclusive interview that aired on NBC News' "Meet the Press" Sunday.
"What we have in Texas is a judge who is not guided by science, but is part of an extreme Republican concerted effort to ban abortion nationwide," said Baldwin, who last month led dozens of members to introduce federal legislation that would guarantee access to abortion in response to the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.
"And we do not need judges, politicians or government telling women about what sort of health care they can have. It is an issue that is not only playing out in the court in Texas but in the state of Florida, with the governor signing a near six-week ban, Idaho forbidding travel out of state for minors, Wisconsin where we’ve gone back to literally 1849," she said. "That is the date our criminal abortion ban was passed and that’s 174 years ago."
Baldwin said there shouldn't be a "second-guessing of the scientific-based process" of the FDA and that she will "keep on fighting" to pass legislation that will codify Roe, which guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion.
"We’re going to keep on fighting to pass my Women’s Health Protection Act, which would restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in federal statutes but also...
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