Anti-Abortion Rights Legislation (H 5295, H 5296, H 5661)

In 2019, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed the Reproductive Privacy Act, which ensured that the tenets of Roe v. Wade were codified into state law and that safe, legal abortion access was protected for all Rhode Islanders. However, the importance of this legislation -- and continued advocacy around abortion rights -- is especially clear in light of the continued introduction of anti-choice legislation. We opposed three pieces of legislation, all of which designed to chip away at the ability for Rhode Islanders to make their own reproductive choices. We noted these bills are an attack on Rhode Island's previously adopted Reproductive Privacy Act, medical science, the doctor-patient relationship, and a person's fundamental right to bodily autonomy.