Nancy Pelosi blasts Republicans who want to charge women with ‘murder’ and take away IVF 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is warning colleagues in a new letter that Republicans will push to ‘criminalize’ abortion – with contraception and in vitro fertilization under threat following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion.   

‘Republicans have made clear that their goal will be to seek to criminalize abortion nationwide,’ Pelosi wrote in a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter – as Democrats are facing pressure from their own base of supporters to push back with abortion rights under threat.

‘Republican state legislators across the country are already advancing extreme new laws, seeking to arrest doctors for offering reproductive care, ban abortion entirely with no exceptions, and even charge women with murder who exercise their right to choose,’ Pelosi wrote. ‘These draconian measures…