Friend – three years ago today, the Supreme Court stripped women of the constitutional right to end a pregnancy by reversing Roe v. Wade.
And in these three years since the Dobbsdecision, the horrors of our new reality have only grown every day.
Now that 19 states have heavily limited or outright criminalized abortion – for women who seek it in state or out, those who try to help them get it, and medical providers who perform it – 1 in every 3 women of reproductive age in America has no say in the matter.
🔴 One in three women has to beg judges and politicians for rights that their mother and grandmother once had.
🔴 One in three women must brave life-threatening complications – if they don't succumb to them, like Josseli Barnica, Amber Nicole Thurman, and Candi Miller did last year – since providers can't treat them for fear of prosecution.
All while Donald Trump and the GOP push to gut Medicaid, secretly defund Planned Parenthood, rip away access to safe medication abortion, appoint anti-choice extremists to go after doctors and punish women for seeking essential reproductive care, remove medical privacy protections for pregnant women who cross state lines to get an abortion in states where it is legal, and eventually, end reproductive freedom for women nationwide.
But we cannot give in. We can – and we must – restore abortion rights for every woman in America.
Even when state Republicans try to keep referendums off the ballot and rig vote thresholds to protect their unpopular agenda (like in Florida), or use misleading language on the ballot and then outright ignore the outcome to keep voter-rejected abortion bans in place (like in Missouri) the truth that the American people are with us is undeniable: because almost every time voters get a say, abortion rights win the majority vote.
I will keep fighting with everything I've got to ensure women in every state can make their own health care decisions, free from interference by politicians. Anything else is fundamentally un-American.
So friend, I urge you to keep using your voice, using your vote, and fighting for everyone's right to receive essential health care, too – because our greatest strength is in numbers. And together is the only way we win.
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