Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand says that, as president, she’d seek to write into law the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that legalized abortion.
During a rally at Georgia’s state Capitol on Thursday, the New York senator criticized recent abortion bans signed into law in Mississippi, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia and Alabama as “a nationwide assault on women’s constitutional rights by ideological extremists.”
Anti-abortion activists and lawmakers in several states have been emboldened by the new conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court that includes President Donald Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. The activists and lawmakers are pushing abortion bans in an attack on the high court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide until a fetus is developed enough to live outside a woman’s uterus.
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