🚨 Crucial Reproductive Rights Update 🚨
John - Anna Scudder here with another important update, but first: will you join our fight to restore our basic, reproductive rights?
➡️ Restore our Rights!
The radical right has taken their next steps toward their ultimate goal: a national ban on abortion and reproductive healthcare.
Rep. Mark Green (TN-07) has announced his plan to introduce a bill known as the States Choose Life Act of 2023. This bill would amend Title X federal funding to remove any mention of choice in clinics that already receive that funding and are typically used to dissuade patients from seeking an abortion. However, there is no incentive for federal funding to "encourage" abortions, and the Hyde Amendment prevents federal funds from being used for an abortion with minor exceptions.
According to the Guardian, "At least 10 US states have siphoned millions of dollars from federal block grants...to pay for the operations of ideological anti-abortion clinics. These overwhelmingly Republican-led states used money from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (Tanf)...to fund the activities of anti-abortion clinics associated with the evangelical right. The clinics work to dissuade women from obtaining abortions."
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, State Rep. Chuck Wichgers (R-Muskego) made the argument that birth control leads to a "loss of respect for women" and that it gives women "control" over the natural process of pregnancy.
The goal is a national ban. The GOP makes it clear in their proposed legislation and their misinformed remarks about biology and women's bodies. They tell us exactly what they want to do but gaslight us when we call them out. They want complete control over the bodies of women and of those in the LGBTQ+ community.
John, enough is enough. We have to fight back against the radical right and their attacks on freedom and the right to make our own healthcare decisions. Help us by chipping in today.
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In solidarity,
- Anna Scudder
Reproductive Health Correspondent,
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