“The fight happening in Georgia, Alabama, and states across the country represents the greatest threat to reproductive freedom we have faced in our lifetimes,” Gillibrand said in a press statement. At the Georgia capitol building on Thursday, she protested the state’s recent passage of strict anti-abortion laws designed to challenge the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand hit the campaign trail last week. Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton introduced a bill to try out ranked choice voting in New York State. Tom Reed crossed party lines to support a Democratic initiative to expand civil rights laws to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. Kirsten Gillibrand missed some votes in Washington last week while hitting the campaign trail, where she protested Georgia’s passage of anti-abortion laws.