Speaker Pelosi Issues Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on Affordable Care Act Contraceptive Coverage Case

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 9 -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, issued the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive-coverage requirement to allow private employers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage for their employees:

"The Supreme Court's decision to enable the Trump Administration's brutal assault on women's health, financial security and independence is a fundamental misreading of the statute. The Affordable Care Act was explicitly designed to prevent discrimination against women and to ensure that women have access to preventive care, including contraception.

"It is unconscionable that, in the middle of the worst global pandemic in modern history, the Administration is focusing on denying basic health care to women that is essential for their health and financial security, instead of protecting lives and livelihoods.

"The Democratic House will continue to fight to uphold and strengthen the ACA and just last week, passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act to further lower health care costs and strengthen coverage. Access to affordable health care is a matter of life-or-death, and Democrats will never stop fighting For The People at this devastating time."