WASHINGTON — This morning, DLCC President Heather Williams joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss how abortion is on the ballot in 2024 and why state legislatures are the most important ballot level shaping reproductive freedom. State Republicans across the country are only becoming more extreme – from attacking IVF access to imposing dangerous abortion restrictions that have prompted state Democrats to share their own abortion stories while urging for more comprehensive care. The interview comes as the DLCC unveils a new memo today highlighting the landscape of GOP attacks on reproductive freedoms across the country and how reproductive rights are a cornerstone of our work this cycle.
To watch the full MSNBC interview, click here.
From Heather Williams on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:
- On how abortion is a losing issue for the GOP: “The Republican approach to removing our choices around our health care by putting up barriers to getting the kind of care that we as women need – Republicans can’t win on this issue. They are not winning on this issue. The American people do not trust them, and they believe that we should have access to a full slate of reproductive health care and that we should have reproductive freedoms.”
- On recent GOP attacks on IVF: “The work we do at the DLCC, really setting this national agenda for these legislative races across the country, matters so much. What happened in Alabama around IVF is not unique to Alabama. We’re seeing Republicans run with this issue. We’re seeing them restrict our access to tools that are used to grow families…[and] evaluate our health care.”
- On the DLCC’s momentum: “Democrats have been gaining grounds in statehouses for election cycles now. Just last cycle, we created new majorities that protected the rights of more than 30 million Americans. And we have a really big map of opportunities this election cycle. We know that the stakes are incredibly high – decisions around our freedoms, our reproductive freedoms, around our democracy, [and] around how we care for each other in our communities are being decided in the states.”
- On what’s at stake: “These legislature elections happening across the country – this is not a billion-dollar operation that we’re running here. If everyone watching right now contributed a dollar at DLCC.org, we would be able to work to protect the reproductive freedoms for millions of people around the country.”
To book Heather Williams on future appearances to talk about the DLCC’s work and how state legislatures are on the frontlines of defending fundamental freedoms, please contact the DLCC press team at [email protected].
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) is the official Democratic Party committee dedicated to winning America’s state legislatures and building state infrastructure. Over the last decade, we have fought cycle-over-cycle to gain a dozen new legislative chamber majorities and we are leading the effort to bring national attention and investment to our ballot level. State legislatures are the building blocks of our democracy and have the closest connections to Americans’ day-to-day lives. From protecting fundamental freedoms and voting rights to growing the middle class, the DLCC and state legislators are moving the Democratic agenda forward and shaping the future of this country.
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