Cory Booker
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
If you want to clarify or provide context for any of the above answers, please do so here.
No answer.
If you support additional policies that we didn’t mention, please describe them here.
As president, I’ll 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 that’s 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.
What policies, if any, would you enact through executive action?
I have released an entire plan to advance reproductive rights through executive action that includes:
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Creating a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom;
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Ending the “domestic gag rule” and expanding and modernizing the Title X family planning program;
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Guaranteeing access to employer-covered contraceptive care;
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Undoing Trump’s refusal rules that allow people to be denied the health care they need;
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Restoring evidence-based guidelines for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program; and,
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Ending the global gag rule and restoring funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
No matter who the next president nominates, the current Supreme Court could overturn or weaken Roe v. Wade. If this happens and Democrats don’t have full control of Congress, what will you do?
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 they’re in the majority or not, to pass legislation that will codify Roe and protect women’s reproductive rights from what would be an extreme finding by the Court.
Should there be restrictions on abortion after the point of viability (roughly 24 weeks)? If so, what restrictions?
Abortion is health care and decisions regarding someone’s health care should be made between that person and their doctor.
Do you believe that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare”? Why or why not?
I believe that abortion is health care.
Opponents of abortion have had some success in framing the public debate on their terms, most recently through the “infanticide” narrative. Beyond his or her policy agenda, should a president who supports abortion rights play a role in reframing the terms of the debate? If so, how?
Yes. And as a man, it’s 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.
Should opponents of abortion rights be welcomed as members, or candidates, of the Democratic Party? Why or why not?
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 women’s 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.