Reproductive justice & disability justice are inextricably linked.

With Republicans attacking Medicaid and reproductive freedom, I’m reintroducing our resolution affirming equitable access to reproductive care for people with disabilities.

Dr. Hailey Evans (@youve.got.hails) is a neonatologist and one of my constituents from Jamaica Plain.

She recently wrote to my office about the devastating impacts Republican Medicaid cuts would have for our postpartum patients and babies in the #MA7 and nationwide.

For Dr. Evans, these cuts would harm the patients she cares for, their families, and create large disruptions in finances for hospitals like hers that care for critically ill newborns.

“My patients deserve a well-funded Medicaid program,” she said.

In Massachusetts, Medicaid covers 39% of all children and pays for 32% of all births. The drastic cuts to Medicaid under Trump and Republicans’ bill would undermine Dr. Evans and her colleagues’ ability to care for these infants and leave them ill-served.

In her words, “Medicaid is fundamental to children’s health and incredibly important for the babies in our state and district.”

This essential program has helped us reduce maternal mortality, improve access to healthcare for our most vulnerable, and give families with premature babies a fighting chance.

That`s one of many reasons I voted against this harmful bill when it came before the House of Representatives. And that`s why the Senate must protect Medicaid, reject these devastating cuts and protect our families.

Medicaid is healthcare. SNAP is food assistance.

Both are lifelines and we’re not done fighting for them.

The Senate must reject Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill and protect our families.

It’s been 5 years since George Floyd was murdered & our communities are still plagued by mass incarceration, police brutality, & overcriminalization.

That’s why I’m reintroducing bold legislation to continue our push toward accountability, healing, & our collective liberation.