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Yesterday, the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives! This is important. Why? WHPA is an important step forward in ensuring that people have attainable access to quality, affordable, and compassionate reproductive services and abortion in their state.

Here are next steps to getting this important piece of legislation passed → Help us urge your Member of Congress to protect access to abortion care by passing WHPA. Sign our petition right now!

It’s been over eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and struck down our constitutional right to abortion in the United States. Our lawmakers must understand that passing a federal bill will protect the right to access abortion care throughout the U.S. by safeguarding us against the harsh bans and medically unnecessary restrictions in which we are currently experiencing, living through, and witnessing every single day in our communities. WHPA will work hand-in-hand with the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage (EACH) Act; legislation that would eliminate federal coverage restrictions on abortion, including the Hyde Amendment’s ban on coverage for Medicaid beneficiaries—because everyone, no matter how much they make, deserves insurance coverage for abortion.

With your signature, we will tell members of Congress to support the right to access abortion care throughout the nation. 

The fall of Roe did not silence us. Instead, it activated MomsRising members to use their voices to create change. We’ve collected hundreds of stories from MomsRising members who have bravely shared their abortion stories with us and agree that abortion care is necessary health care. 

Our member from Florida wrote: 

“As someone who lives with a chronic autoimmune disorder, I had to be very mindful about my health before choosing to have a baby. When I was 24, I got pregnant. Due to the complexity of my health at the time my only safe option was to choose an abortion. This choice allowed me to stay healthy and later choose to have two healthy children. Had I been forced to carry that pregnancy to term it is likely both myself and the potential fetus would have had irreparable complications.”

A mother in California shared: 

“I was already a mother to a 4 year old. I had already lost a few pregnancies to miscarriage. I had also lost a child when he was only a few days old. To say our family was devastated was an understatement. So when I became pregnant again this pregnancy was really really wanted. At 15 weeks it was determined that this child had a genetic condition that was not compatible with life. He would either be still born or die shortly after birth. Having already lost a child after a full 9 month pregnancy and natural childbirth, the thought of carrying another child that would not survive was unbearable. We were fortunate to have that choice, to make the very difficult, painful decision to not make this child suffer nor our family suffer through more unbearable loss. This was not an easy decision but one our family made together, with our health care provider, in private. And I feel so incredibly grateful to have had that choice.”

Six in ten people who have abortion are moms and polls show the majority of people in America agree: abortion care should be accessible to all who need it. Being able to choose if we have children, and if so, when and how many children to have, is a fundamental human right. We know that having authority over what we do with our bodies is not limited to our reproductive rights but has helped to narrow the gender pay gap, improve the health of women and their families, and lead women toward access to increased economic security. 

Abortion is essential, time-sensitive health care, and a crucial tool in the fight to advance race and gender equity. It deserves to be treated as such. Threats to abortion care threatens healthcare for all. 

Using your signature you have the power to urge Congress to stand with people and communities fighting for racial, economic, and reproductive justice. Sign on with us!

Thank you,

- Diarra and the whole MomsRising.org & MamásConPoder Team

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