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(Washington, DC) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) released this statement on the United States Supreme Court decision today in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, effectively overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established the constitutional right to abortion: 

“The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Roe v. Wade is tragic on so many fronts. It rejects the basic rights of women, condemns millions of women and their families back to a dark pre-Roe world, dismisses a careful balancing of interests that has stood for two generations, undermines our institutions of government and embarrasses us in the eyes of the world.

“Our Hawai‘i had it right with our first-in-the-nation law in 1970, and must now stand strong with other like-minded states against the further assault on women’s and other rights already underway until we can reverse this retreat to an intolerant past in our legislatures and courts."

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