A year ago today, we faced one of the dark days in American history: the hyper partisan majority on the United State Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, undoing decades of precedent and a pro-choice status quo strongly supported by a majority of Americans.
I won’t sugarcoat: things haven’t been easy since then. Although we’ve been able to protect choice in some areas of the country, today, in North Carolina, we’re only about a week away from the GOP’s extreme abortion ban entering into effect. Next month, it will be harder to get an abortion in North Carolina than it has been at any point in the last fifty years.
Now more than ever, we have to elect leaders to our state government who will protect the right to choice. We can’t rely on the courts or the Congress to save us—it falls on us, and the freedom of millions of North Carolinians to make their own choices about how and when to start a family is at stake.
This is a pro-choice campaign. The values that I’m running on are founded in a deeply-held belief that government exists to support North Carolinians in living up to their potential—that our job as leaders is to have people’s backs, not to dictate to them how they should live their lives.
But it’s going to take a whole lot of folks standing up and agreeing with us to win and ensure we have a state that matches that vision—John, can I count on you to stand with us and help protect abortion rights in our state?
