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Dear John,
Every day, judges make consequential decisions—decisions that impact our access to health care and our voting rights, where we can live and who we can marry, what we can read and what teachers can teach—with almost no accountability to the public they serve.
And while we all know that saying about great power and great responsibility, conservative judges in America seem to see their power as the perfect opportunity to strip rights away from millions of people.
That’s why the National Women’s Law Center goes all-out to ensure that judges committed to voting rights, reproductive rights, and gender justice get confirmed—judges like civil rights lawyer Nancy Abudu, the first Black woman on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the deep South, and reproductive rights lawyer Julie Rikelman, the first Jewish and immigrant woman on the First Circuit Court of Appeals. It’s why we advocate for judicial nominees across the country who will bring racial, gender, and professional diversity to the courts, and build the public support needed to get them on the bench. The decisions being made in courts today will impact our rights for decades to come, so these appointments are absolutely critical—and just one of the ways NWLC is fighting for gender justice.
This work is only possible with your help, so if you can, please make a special gift to the Law Center today. Until June 30, every dollar we raise will be matched, up to $15,000!
Here’s why that deadline matters: our fiscal year is up when the clock strikes midnight on June 30. The books will close, and we’ll be finalizing our budgets for the new year. That means the dollars we raise right now will help determine how big we can go in the months to come—and we want to go big. Here are just a few of our top priorities:
- Continuing to fight back against attacks on abortion bans in the courts, in legislatures and administrative agencies, and on the streets working to expand access and building public support for abortion rights
- Protecting and strengthening Title IX to make sure it protects all students, including trans students and survivors
- Pushing for expanded contraception access, including for those whose insurance excludes coverage of birth control
- Demanding that billionaires pay their fair share of taxes, and channeling those tax dollars into public investments for women and families—like child care, aging and disability care, and paid family and medical leave–that will benefit all of us
If you’re as excited about these goals as we are, I hope you’ll pitch in with a matched gift today. Until June 30, every dollar will go twice as far for these important fights.
There is so much at stake right now, John, but also so much opportunity. I know that a future of greater equality, a world where women and girls are safe, healthy, and have the resources they need to thrive, is possible. And that day by day, right now, we are building it together.
I am so proud and grateful to do this work with you. Let’s keep going.
Sincerely,
Erinn D. Martin
she/her/hers
Director of Nominations and Cross-Cutting Campaigns
National Women's Law Center
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