Washington D.C., Mar 9, 2020 / 15:00 pm
If elected president, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would use his Medicare for all policy to increase access to abortion nationwide, and roll back limits on state funding for the procedure, his campaign announced on Saturday.
"Bernie believes abortion is a constitutional right, period," says the opening of his campaign's "Reproductive Health Care and Justice for All" plan, published on his website March 7.
The Vermont senator is one of three candidates remaining in the race for the Democratic nomination for president. If elected, Sanders' campaing said he would move to overturn the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal funding from going to abortion services. Abortion and other reproductive health services "will be provided free at the point of serrvice," along with contraception.
"When we are in the White House, Bernie will fight back against the Republican assault on abortion rights across the country and defend a woman's right to control her own body here at home and around the world," the plan states.