Press Release California
Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Supreme Court’s Ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Undermining the Right to Vote Across the Country
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Supreme Court’s Ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Undermining the Right to Vote Across the Country
Washington, DC — Today, the Supreme Court issued its 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, functionally dismantling Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act—a landmark provision passed to protect historically marginalized voters’ right to fair representation, and undoing decades of hard-fought civil rights advocacy. Authored by Justice Samuel Alito, and decided along ideological lines, the decision strikes down Louisiana’s map creating a second majority-Black district and greenlights states across the country to gerrymander maps in ways that undermine fair representation ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The consequences of today’s ruling extend beyond Louisiana. As Justice Elena Kagan warned in her dissent, the decision “greenlights redistricting plans that will disable minority communities—in Louisiana and across the nation—from electing representatives of their choice,” threatening to drive the largest rollback of representation for Black and brown communities since Reconstruction. Reproductive Freedom for All has long understood that the fight for reproductive freedom and the fight for voting rights are inseparable—the same extremists who have spent decades dismantling abortion access have spent those same decades attacking the political power of the communities most harmed by abortion bans.
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:
“Today’s ruling is the culmination of decades of attacks on one of the most important civil rights laws in our country’s history. Just as the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court chipped away at Roe v. Wade before overturning the federal right to abortion in Dobbs, they are dismantling the Voting Rights Act piece by piece because they know their extreme agenda is deeply unpopular. Justice Alito claimed in Dobbs that women are ‘not without electoral or political power,’ but today’s decision makes clear this Court is making it harder for people to exercise that power and secure fair representation. When extremists cannot win the support of the majority, they rig the rules instead.”
Alongside voting rights and democracy partners, Reproductive Freedom for All is closely monitoring how this ruling will impact pending Voting Rights Act challenges in lower courts across the country, including ongoing redistricting fights that could further erode representation of communities of color ahead of critical elections. Joining the Congressional Black Caucus and other leaders across the country, Reproductive Freedom for All is calling on Congress to act as a check and balance on this out of control court. Now is the time to call on Congress to expand the Court and to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices, who are taking rights away instead of upholding the law.
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For over 55 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.