Congresswoman Leger Fernandez says women cannot afford Republican policies, citing voting, passport fees

New Mexico Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez says at a news conference by the Democratic Women's Caucus that nationwide, an estimated 69 million women would be unable to use a birth certificate to prove identity or citizenship to register to vote, affecting 28 percent of eligible voters across the country in all districts, which was unfair and constituted voter suppression, with New Mexico alone having 431,239 women unable to use their birth certificate because they changed their name, while passports were expensive at $130 minimum, took months to receive, and passport offices were hours away for many rural women, making Republican claims that the SAVE Act offered options for women patently false.