Senator from New Jersey

Codify Roe v. Wade? Yes

Require judicial nominees to support Roe as settled law? Yes

Repeal the Hyde Amendment? Yes

Would you sign a budget that included the Hyde Amendment? Unsure

Require private insurers to cover abortion? Yes

Require private insurers to cover contraception? Yes

Repeal the Helms Amendment? Yes

Repeal the global gag rule? Yes

Repeal the domestic gag rule? Yes

Ban state TRAP laws? Yes

Require preclearance for state abortion laws? Yes

Make misoprostol and mifepristone available over the counter? Yes

Make hormonal birth control available over the counter? Yes

Ban abstinence-only sex ed? Yes

Preserve Planned Parenthood funding? Yes

Consider a running mate who opposes abortion rights? No

No answer.

As president, Ill create a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom, charged with coordinating and affirmatively advancing abortion rights and access to reproductive health care across my administration. In addition, I will fight to pass comprehensive sex education legislation based on the Real Education for Healthy Youth Act thats inclusive of all youth and provides information on a range of topics, including preventing S.T.I.s. I would also fight to pass the MOMMIES Act into law, which would ensure that all pregnant women have full Medicaid coverage, extend Medicaid coverage for postpartum women up to a full year after giving birth, and increase access to doula care.

I have released an entire plan to advance reproductive rights through executive action that includes:

Creating a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom;

Ending the domestic gag rule and expanding and modernizing the Title X family planning program;

Guaranteeing access to employer-covered contraceptive care;

Undoing Trumps refusal rules that allow people to be denied the health care they need;

Restoring evidence-based guidelines for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program; and,

Ending the global gag rule and restoring funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

First and foremost, this question underscores just how important it is that we ensure not only that we put a Democrat in the White House, but also flip the Senate and hold the House in 2020. I will continue to stand with the more than seven in 10 Americans who support Roe v. Wade and push Republicans in Congress, whether theyre in the majority or not, to pass legislation that will codify Roe and protect womens reproductive rights from what would be an extreme finding by the Court.

Abortion is health care and decisions regarding someones health care should be made between that person and their doctor.

I believe that abortion is health care.

Yes. And as a man, its even more incumbent upon me to use my voice and my platform to help reframe this debate. Women should not have to face this fight alone. Men need to take responsibility too. We need to listen, to speak out, and to take action not because women are our mothers, sisters, wives or friends because women are people. And all people deserve to control their own bodies.

Reproductive freedom and the right to access safe, legal abortion care is core to our values and a central tenet of who we are as a party. These far-right attacks on womens rights must be understood as an attack on all of our rights. But we also need to understand who these attacks on reproductive freedom are designed to control, dehumanize and criminalize.

Read more:
How the 2020 Democrats Responded to an Abortion Survey - The New York Times