A top House panel will hold a hearing later this month on the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, it announced ahead of the weekend.
News of the hearing came from House Oversight and Reform Committee Democrats, who said in a statement that the panel would “examine how the Republican-appointed Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will impact people and families across America for generations to come.” The hearing, which will take place July 13, was announced Friday, one week to the day since the nation’s highest bench announced that it would reverse the 1973 landmark ruling, which had guaranteed nationwide abortion access for nearly half a century.
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Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who heads the Oversight Committee, wrote in a separate statement that the hearing would highlight the “devastating effects” that the ruling would have on the public’s ability to access reproductive care.
“Make no mistake: This decision is the culmination of a yearslong public campaign by Republicans to appoint a Supreme Court that would support draconian restrictions on people’s reproductive healthcare,” the New York Democrat said. “This hearing will focus on those whom these restrictions will harm the most and highlight the devastating impact that this decision will have on generations to come.”
Maloney added that she was “committed to protecting and expanding access to abortion and reproductive healthcare for all.”
The Supreme Court overturned the ruling last Friday, giving states the authority to determine limits on when a woman can terminate a pregnancy.
“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” read a syllabus of the high court’s opinion.
In the aftermath of the court’s latest rulings, specifically its decision to overturn Roe, a growing chorus of liberal Democrats have begun calling for expanding the number of justices on the bench. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called for expanding the court last weekend, as did Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
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Those progressives lack a critical ally in their desires to stack the court: President Joe Biden.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters last Saturday that the commander in chief did not support expanding the number of justices on the bench, even though he disapproved the court’s rulings.
